Resident Evil 3 has shifted more than five million copies

The Resident Evil 3 remake, which launched nearly two years ago in April 2020, has hit its next major sales milestone. Developer and publisher Capcom has announced in a press release that the remake of its classic survival-horror game has now shifted more than five million copies.

The new figure is for sales worldwide, across all platforms (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC). It’s an impressive feat for the game, with five million sales keeping Resident Evil 3 just outside of the top ten in Capcom’s list of its best-selling games. When the list was last updated in late December 2021, the RE3 remake was sitting in the number 12 spot, having sold 4.9 million copies as of that time. That put it just behind the original 1998 Resident Evil 2 at that time, and ahead of 2010’s Monster Hunter Freedom 3, though it’s probably safe to assume that it’ll have nudged past RE2 with this new milestone.

While five million sales in under two years is a strong performance, it’s somewhat dwarfed by some of the other huge hits in the long-running series so far. 2017’s Resident Evil 7, for example, is currently Capcom’s second-best selling game of all time according to the list, having shifted 10.6 million copies as of December 2021.

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