The series & # 39; Resident Evil & # 39; exceeds 90 million units sold

Capcom announced that the resident Evil The series has exceeded 90 million units sold for all its outings.

As of January 28 this year, the series had 88 million units, which means it has shipped another two million in the last two weeks. And probably most of those sales came from Resident Evil 2, released last month to rave reviews and good initial sales.

At 90 million, resident Evil is comfortably the best-selling franchise of Capcom. And it's not very surprising if you consider that it's the best horror movie series ever made in the world of video games. She has seen 24 different outings, big and small, since its launch in 1996.

For those who do not know: resident Evil can go back to its origins until 1993, when development began under the wing of Tokuro Fujiwara and Shinji Mikami, who had designed it as a remake of the 1989 Capcom horror game , Sweet Home. However, in 1994, Capcom learned that a DOS game had recently been registered under this name in the United States, which led to the series being called resident Evil. A much more commercial name, if you ask me.

Two years later, resident Evil made his PlayStation debut in 1996, where he was featured as a "survival horror" game, a coined term for the new genre he was creating. And the rest is history. To this day, the series remains extremely popular, although it may not be as popular as in the past. It seems that the series has culminated with Resident Evil 4-6, and has since declined a little.

More recently, the series produced a remake of Resident Evil 2, which not only transformed the horror classic in 1998 with a graphic redesign, but also modernized it for an audience in 2019. And that seems to have worked well. According to the platform, he has a 91, 92 or 89 on Metacritic.

Of course, exceeding 90 million units means that we could very well exceed 100 million by the time of the next installment, an extremely impressive milestone that few series can cling to their hat.

23 years, resident Evil is a staple of the game industry, and almost all players have experienced it at some point. Let us know in the comments below what is your favorite souvenir of the series. And of course: what do you think is the best entry so far?

Thank you, reset the era.