Capcom's Meteoric Rise Underlined by Resident Evil Village Sales Milestone | Push Square

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Capcom, in its current guise, is like a footballer that’s on a hot streak and has scored a goal every game for the past couple of months. The publisher – colloquially coined Capgod here on our internal Slack chat – is absolutely on fire, releasing hit after hit after hit. (Its latest effort, Street Fighter 6, netted a perfect score in Japanese gaming bible Famitsu this week.)

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The thing is, the games aren’t just reviewing well – they’re also posting extraordinary sales numbers. Take the excellent Resident Evil Village, for example, which has now sold eight million units worldwide. Obviously it’s taken a couple of years to get there, but these are fantastic numbers, and the number’s only likely to increase as the generation matures.

In fact, Capcom has managed to keep Resident Evil Village relevant with the addition of DLC content like the recent Winters’ Expansion and full PSVR2 support. It’s a feature that it’ll also be adding to Resident Evil 4 this year, which passed its own sales milestone recently, topping 3.7 million units since launch.

A true PlayStation veteran, Sammy's covered the world of PS gaming for years, with an enormous Trophy count to prove it. He also likes tennis games way more than you.

I don't think Monster Hunter gets enough love for helping turn Capcom around. MH World was huge for them.

thank you Capcom. too bad nobody likes or even remembers Killer7… like a remaster, remake, something.

As I've stated before, Capcom isn't what it used to be… at least for me. They used to have incredible IPs all over the place and half of them are dead. Even their one-offs like Shadow of Rome (PS2) and Haunting Ground (PS2) were incredibly fun to play. I get that younger