Resident Evil 4 is the last of the releases that Capcom has put in stores and that clearly looks to the past, specifically to the year 2005 when it was first released for all platforms of the time: GameCube first, PS2 and PC later and finally PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii. Now, 18 years later, we can enjoy it updated and completely revamped in ways no one could have imagined.
A successful policy
We must give Capcom credit for having managed to make their Resident Evil franchise practically the most successful of our times, thanks to a successful policy of real remakes , where a few cosmetic elements are not added and that’s it, rather, every pixel originally designed by the Japanese is touched.
This has led to all the games that have had a remake , the first four in the saga, have reached really high sales figures, with many millions in total if we add the four installments that have been taking place since 2015 and which are the that, really, they are discovering this extraordinary franchise to the new generations who could not try it at the end of the 90s.
Now, what is the record that Resident Evil 4 has achieved in just four days and that they had not reached any of the first three titles in the franchise that had undergone a remake in their flesh? Well, indeed, it has to do with sales.
Resident Evil 4 breaks records
Well, what the remake of Resident Evil 4 has achieved and what the other three that have preceded it have not achieved is that it is the first to sell –29% specifically– more launch than the original that hit the stores in 2005. Until now, although the new games had achieved millions of units sold, none had been close to the goal of being above the original, so this mark that has just been achieved represents a transcendental milestone for Capcom.
And it is because it is a clear endorsement of his policy of reviving old glories by updating them to the technical potential of current machines and opens the door for him to try his luck with other sagas that are as expected as Resident Evil themselves. And here, obviously, a name appears that would excite most of us, how is it that they bring back to life that other reference survival horror such as Dino Crisis.
Of course, the figure for Resident Evil 4 could have a bit of a trick since, originally, the game came to the GameCube until it began to appear on the rest of the machines . It is against those numbers achieved by the Nintendo console that the remake allows itself the luxury of boasting something like this, since if it had been through PS2, for example, the objective would have been much more difficult to achieve.
But be that as it may, and beyond the figures themselves, what is evident is that Capcom has hit the key and that its remake policy is already a confirmed success that could open the doors to other important sagas from the Japanese. Don’t you think?