The original Resident Evil has been rated for a release on Steam, and it’s the most ridiculous thing ever that it isn’t already a thing. Think about it.
You have a giant library of games from the last 30 years just sitting there. The average PC gamer has it open by default. They want games to buy, and the rights holders… just do nothing?
Yes, the REmake is available for purchase. But that’s not enough. Steam should have all the original Resident Evil games, and chuck in Dino Crisis and anything else locked on old consoles too.
There is money to be made from back catalogues. This was evidenced by the release of Kingdom Hearts on Steam last week. It wasn’t the first time it was available on PC (it’s been an Epic store exclusive for many years), but it might as well have been.
The entire collection flew up the charts. And while nobody expects a random port of a twenty or even thirty year old game to sell millions, it doesn’t have to.