The ninth installment of the cult horror Resident Evil Requiem decided to rewrite Capcom’s story right on the day of release. Just 4 hours after the servers opened at 3:00 a.m. New York time, peak online traffic soared to almost 270,000 people — powerful, really. This makes Requiem the absolute champion within the franchise, because it managed to beat the previous leaders by almost 2 times. The previous record was held by the remake of Resident Evil 4, but there the bar froze at around 168,000 users — a huge gap.
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Resident Evil Requiem entered Capcom’s Top online games
In fact, Requiem is now officially one of the publisher’s elite projects, although it has not yet reached the company’s absolute records. Monster Hunter Wilds still sits at the top of Olympus with its crazy peak of over 1.3 million players, and the second line is held by the legendary Monster Hunter: World, which gathered 334,684 people at the same time. However, right now more than 232,000 gamers are hacking into Resident Evil Requiem — the numbers are, frankly, impressive for a single-player horror game.
Release date and platforms of Resident Evil Requiem
The game was released today, February 27, on all current devices. The list is impressive: PC, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5 and even the brand new Nintendo Switch 2 got their share of horror at the same time. It seems that Capcom has timed the release perfectly to maximize the harvest — everything makes perfect sense, given the hype surrounding the ninth installment.
