Resident Evil 4 Is The First Remake In The Series To Outsell The Original

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Resident Evil 4 remake is off to a great start. Since its release last Friday, the game has surpassed Resident Evil Village in terms of peak concurrent users on Steam, and it’s more than doubled the number of peak players for the Resident Evil 2 remake and tripled that of the Resident Evil 3 remake.

And it seems those Steam numbers have translated into physical sales, too. The UK sales charts are out (courtesy of Games Industry.biz), and Resident Evil 4 is at the top of the list. Sales of Resident Evil 4 have even topped that of the original 2005 GameCube release by 29 percent, making Resident Evil 4 the first remake to surpass sales of the original.

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We should note that the original RE4 was only released on the GameCube to start, while the RE4 remake released on four platforms, including the PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam. However, the current sales charts only include physical sales. One suspects that the digital sales will catapult the RE4 remake way beyond the 2005 original.

In terms of just physical sales, RE4 remake sold 23 percent fewer units than Resident Evil Village and 38 percent fewer than Resident Evil 2 remake but sold 38 percent more units than the Resident Evil 3 remake. Again, these sales are only for physical discs and could pivot back in RE4's favor once the digital numbers are available.

The vast majority of physical RE4 remake discs sold on PS5, while 13 percent were sold on the PS4 and 14 percent on Xbox Series X|S. There is no physical version for PC, so expect this ratio to change. SteamDB estimates around 500,000 units have been sold on Steam so far.

Capcom seems likely to support RE4 remake given its huge success. We already