Ever since Capcom released Resident Evil 7, the long-running survival-horror series has seen a solid return to form, but it was the remake of Resident Evil 2 that convinced players that the developers had finally understood what even made the series great in the first place; its survival-horror aspect.
Resident Evil 2 was critically praised for slightly reimagining the original game, but also managing to bring back all of the elements that made it a survival-horror through and through; getting rid of the mindless action seen in other titles like the best-selling Resident Evil 5 or the divisive Resident Evil 6.
The Resident Evil 3 remake was released in April of this year, and within its first days since release Capcom announced that the game had sold a very impressive 2 million copies; unfortunately, the game hasn't really sold that well since.
As of the 30th of June, official information has revealed that Resident Evil 3 has only sold 2.7 million copies; 12 weeks after the game hit store shelves worldwide; trailing behind Resident Evil 7. To better illustrate, in 9 weeks Resident Evil 7 had managed to sell over 4.2 million copies, while Resident Evil 2 had sold, within the same time span, 4.2 million copies.
Keeping this into account, Resident Evil 3 has the mainline Resident Evil series' lowest launch sales in well over a decade after Resident Evil 5 was released in March of 2009. It is also worth mentioning that Resident Evil 5 is the best-selling title in the series's history with over 10 million copies sold as of 2019; with 5 million of those made within its first 3 months after its release.
While Resident Evil 3 was received positively by fans and critics, the game has definitely not resonated as well as Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 7 before it. The COVID-19 pandemic could've affected initial sales too, but Capcom hasn't attributed this to the game's poor sales.
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Resident Evil 3 is currently available for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC(Steam, Microsoft Windows).