On July 2, Capcom released Resident Evil 7 Biohazard on iOS devices. According to the MobileGamer portal, citing AppMagic data, the game is not popular. In two weeks, it was downloaded about 83,000 times.

Such memories were shared by Jun Takeuchi, the executive producer of the game. According to him, Capcom marketers believed that it was necessary to create projects that gamers were asking for, i.e., multiplayer games-services with downloadable content and microtransactions.

On the day of the release of Devil May Cry 5, the number of its simultaneous PC players reached 88.9 thousand people. This made the novelty the second most popular PC release by Capcom.

Capcom will continue to release “cloud versions” of its games. The company considers this direction promising.

Over 300 thousand users have already played in the VR horror mode of Resident Evil 7. This is about 12% of the total audience of the title of 2.7 million gamers and more than 30% of all PlayStation VR owners.

The average gaming session in the virtual reality mode of the horror Resident Evil 7 lasts twice as long as sessions of other VR games for PlayStation 4, according to Sony.

Capcom announced the delivery of 4 million copies of Resident Evil VII horror to stores 10 months after the launch of the game.

Sony admitted that they did not expect the popularity of virtual reality mode among Capcom horror Resident Evil 7 players.

Japanese horror Resident Evil 7 sold 3.5 million copies in the first quarter of 2017. His publisher – Capcom – is sure: this is not the limit. The company expects that the total sales of the game for all time will amount to 10 million.

“By adding virtual reality support to Resident Evil 7, we were practically making two games at the same time,” admitted Kazuhiro Takahara, the lead VR engineer of the Resident Evil 7: Biohazard project.