Resident Evil 5 tops 4 million sales worldwide

  • Posted May 8th, 2009 at 12:19 EDT by Mike Harradence
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Capcom has revealed that action horror sequel Resident Evil 5 has eclipsed the four million sales mark worldwide.

Released on March 13, Resident Evil 5 stars veteran zombie slayer Chris Redfield and newcomer Sheva Alomar in an all-out African horror fest as the pair attempts to subvert the evil doings of the super villian Albert Wesker and company. We were rather impressed with the game, as you can see from our review here.

Meanwhile, the publisher also confirmed that critically acclaimed brawler Street Fighter IV has sold an impressive two million sales globally following its launch in February 2009. Be sure to pop over to our review to see what we thought.

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  1. higgos22

    • 12:25pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    now thats alot of copies sold especially in that time and i dont even have it, i wonder how many its sold on each console tho hopefuilly like 3.5million on ps3 hahaha

  2. Skyesapaart | Skyesapaart

    • 12:37pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    Not really surprising tbh, its Resident Evil, i just want another Deadspace! :( work harder EA!

  3. Jules909 | jules909

    • 12:37pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    I was never a fan of RE and wasn't that impresswed with the demo of RE5, it's no Dead Space is it? I'm surprised SF4 sold less, thought it'd be huge and it deserves it coz it's a great game.

  4. PsychoMantis | KuruptX

    • 12:53pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    Pretty obvious since its multiplat I think it would have sold alot less if it was exclusive to the PS3 (I can't believe I just said that). :lol:

  5. Infernoz0 | Oblivian_92

    • 1:17pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    meh, dead space kick RE5's but* anytime

  6. CardinalSimons

    • 1:54pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    Tsk. Not very surprised  with this Matrix / Blade II rip-off.

    Takeuchi stop f***ing Shinji Mikami´s Opus

  7. [valium] | valium018

    • 2:45pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    it shouldn't have taken it this long, especially a multi-plat.

  8. FPSgamer | niminum239

    • 5:31pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    This game was released less than 2 months ago. It managed to sell 4 million copies....I'm impressed.

  9. ADRiiAN`

    • 5:35pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    I hate how everyone compares Resident Evil to Dead Space. They are two completely different games in it's own. Sure, it's the same genre, but that's where it stops. RE5 is much more realistic then DS when it comes to shooting, and reactions and such, and the storyline was great in RE5. People who haven't followed the Resident Evil series, obviously think DS has a better storyline. You have to understand the timeline in Resident Evil. It's the saying the same for MGS4, you must know the storyline.

    Resident Evil 5 was one epic game for this year, it deserved it's 4 million copies sold.

  10. hitman_Q8 | hitman_T92

    • 5:48pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    i got platinum in this game

  11. re5fan

    • 8:22pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    Deadspace was good but not resident evil good.RE5 rocks

  12. leon452

    • 8:52pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    Yep Resident evil 5 rocks and it is way better than dead space. To be able to play with my brother through the story mode whilst he is in london is so cool. Co-op with sheva is an excellent idea and as i love zombie games this is the best. i was in doubt after playing the demo but after buying the game, I found the controls easy and the game varied and exciting, especially when ordering my brother around or saving his behind. People who have not got this game should get it now. Sales speak for itself people, so GET IT!!!!

  13. Intervention

    • 9:11pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    I wish they would release some new content already. Oh and Dead Space was teh suck. You can't even compare the two.

  14. Bigdoggy | Gypscrew

    • 11:29pm BST - May 8th, 2009

    I liked RE5 more then deadspace.   I can see why it topped 4 million, it was a really good game.  Deadspace was good and all but it was missing some things, I didn't really enjoy it as much as RE5.  The only thing RE5 missed was more puzzles and better puzzles, otherwise the game kicked complete ***.

  15. Augie90

    • 1:45am BST - May 9th, 2009

    DEADSPACE 2 go look it up on gamespy.com!!!!

  16. A-HAAA

    • 1:45am BST - May 11th, 2009

    @4

    it is true though i love my ps3 to death but the highest selling ps3 game has sould around this point

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