The path of Resident Evil 4 Remake is excellent  

It surpassed the original game upon release

A few days ago we learned that Resident Evil 4 Remake broke a record for the franchise on Steam, having more than 168,000 concurrent players at launch. Now, another piece of news regarding its sales has come into the spotlight.

According to the data of the well-known site, GameIndustry.biz , Resident Evil 4 Remake has outsold the original GameCube game on its release, as far as the UK is concerned.

Sales of the Remake were 29% higher, but this was due to the fact that it was made available on multiple platforms at the same time, while in March 2005, the original game had been launched exclusively on the Nintendo console. Also, these statistics only concern retail sales, since so far we don’t know how it fared digitally.

Let us remind you that Resident Evil 4, in addition to the Nintendo GameCube, was later released on more popular platforms such as the PlayStation 2 (November 2005) and the Nintendo Wii (July 2007).

Moving on, Resident Evil 4 Remake sold 23% fewer units than Resident Evil Village, 37% fewer than Resident Evil 2 Remake, but 38% more units than Resident Evil 3 Remake. Again, these numbers are for the first three days of and only for retail copies.

Some information about Resident Evil 4 Remake:

Leon S. Kennedy’s adventure is highly upgraded, as it is a complete re-imagine. The developers keep the identity of the original game, but at the same time bring it to today’s more modernized. Among other things, they want to make sure that it retains the “feeling of fear and loneliness” of the first game, and continues to include exciting battles.

The iconic merchant is normally here too, from which you can trade diamonds, buy items and upgrade your weapons. At the same time, the suitcase also returns, only this time it also has some abilities that will help Leon’s equipment.

Resident Evil 4 is available for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. It is worth mentioning that the remake will soon be enriched with new content, specially designed for Sony’s PlayStation VR 2.