Resident Evil Requiem Hits 7 Million Sales Milestone

Capcom has celebrated Resident Evil Requiem passing another sales milestone, and provided its director with two giant cakes to mark the occasion.

Resident Evil Requiem has now sold more than 7 million copies since its launch last month. That’s up by a million on our last official tally, confirmed in mid-April.

Requiem has been breaking sales records for the franchise since its release, when it shifted a stunning 5 million copies in just five days — making it the fastest-selling Resident Evil game in the whole franchise.

Now, director Koshi Nakanishi has revealed Requiem’s latest sales achievement via a story on his Instagram, which shows staff members celebrating alongside two towering Resident Evil Requiem-themed cakes. A Leon cake features black icing, blueberries and raspberries, alongside what looks to be a biscuit-based cake topper shaped like Leon wielding a pistol. A further decoration shows the star’s trusty hatchet.

A second cake features Leon’s co-protagonist Grace Ashcroft. This features white frosting, and a decoration showing what looks to be a zombie’s hand reaching out of the cake’s second tier. “Welcome to 7m Leon! ” reads the writing on one cake. “Grace Congratulations on 7 million!” reads the other.

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Happily, Resident Evil Requiem fans still have plenty more to come from the game, including next month’s mysterious content update that players expect will add a new version of the franchise’s The Mercenaries mode — especially after datamine leak revealed tense new music. Following that, a full-blown story DLC is also in the works, though sounds further off.

Capcom’s sales success with Resident Evil Requiem is well deserved — it is a fantastic game, and one we here at IGN bestowed with a 9/10 score, saying that it “successfully splices two separate strains of survival horror together into the one highly infectious new mutation.”

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