The Resident Evil 2 remake has bought over 10 million models worldwide, in accordance with developer Capcom.
The reimagining of the 1998 traditional horror title launched in 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Home windows PC. It was finally introduced to different platforms together with PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X | S, and Amazon Luna in June 2022.
The title had bought 5 million models as of December 2019, that means one other 5 million copies have been bought within the years since.
The long-running Resident Evil collection stays massively essential for Capcom, and in June 2020 grew to become the primary franchise within the firm’s historical past to surpass 100 million cumulative worldwide gross sales.
The Japanese developer’s newest fiscal report confirmed that Resident Evil — together with different collection resembling Monster Hunter — are nonetheless driving earnings.
The latest entry within the franchise, Resident Evil Village, bought over 6 million copies to assist the corporate ship document web gross sales, earnings, and online game unit gross sales through the full-year ended March 31, 2022.
With its enterprise in good well being, Capcom not too long ago selected to enhance the bottom wage of employees in Japan by 30 % and laid out plans to reorganise its HR division to create a ” extra snug” office.
“Starting with the 2022 fiscal yr, Capcom will partially revise its compensation system. This can include a mean base wage enhance of 30 % (consists of the portion for pay raises) and the introduction of a bonus system extra intently linked to the corporate’s enterprise efficiency,” wrote the corporate on its investor relations website on the time.
“Additional, Capcom will proceed to reinforce its worker efficiency assessment and coaching programs going ahead.”
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