Resident Evil Requiem is the fastest-selling game in franchise history

Capcom announced on Wednesday that Resident Evil Requiem sold 5 million copies in the five days since its release, a launch pace that makes it the fastest-selling game in the series' history, though the company did not frame that specific record in its news release.

The result puts Requiem well ahead of recent franchise best-sellers from the series' late-2010s renaissance. The 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2, the series' top seller with 16.8 million copies, moved 3 million copies in its first week, and Resident Evil 7 Biohazard, Resident Evil Village, and the remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 3 all posted similar openings.

Requiem's strong start was helped by launching on four platforms — a day-one Nintendo Switch 2 edition alongside PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X releases — and it drew a peak of 344,124 concurrent players on Steam over the weekend, placing it just inside the platform's all-time top 40.

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