{"id":90286,"date":"2026-09-28T20:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90286"},"modified":"2026-09-28T22:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:52:24","slug":"zach-creggers-resident-evil-movie-is-so-popular-it-increased-re2-remake-sales-by-more-than-50-on-ps5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90286","title":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger&#8217;s Resident Evil Movie Is So Popular, It Increased RE2 Remake Sales by More Than 50% on PS5"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Data shows that Zach Cregger\u2019s film adaptation of Capcom\u2019s flagship horror franchise was so successful, it boosted sales for copies of both Resident Evil 2 Remake and RE4\u2019s 2023 remake on the PlayStation 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/resident-evil-2026\">Cregger\u2019s Resident Evil<\/a> has enjoyed resounding success on all fronts; not only is it the single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/zach-creggers-resident-evil-defies-expectations-with-108-million-box-office-opening-weekend\">most-profitable Resident Evil movie<\/a> ever made, it\u2019s also helping sales for the games it\u2019s based on.<\/p>\n<p>Stats aggregated by Alinea Analytics show that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/resident-evil-2\">Resident Evil 2 Remake<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/resident-evil-4\">Resident Evil 4 (2023)<\/a> enjoyed a massive boost in the week after Cregger\u2019s movie hit theaters. As told in a <a href=\"https:\/\/alineaanalytics.substack.com\/p\/resident-evil-special-requiem-passed\">substack post<\/a> written by Alinea Analytics\u2019 Rhys Elliot, RE2 remake and RE 4 (2023) enjoyed a whopping 64% and 54% increase in PS5 sales, respectively. With Steam copies added to the mix, the games got bumped up by an additional 11% and 14%, respectively.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"resident-evil-2026-images\" data-value=\"resident-evil-2026-images\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>On PlayStation, this means the two games\u2019 revenue increased by a jaw-dropping 80% and 84%, though it\u2019s also worth noting that Capcom slashed prices for the games about 10 days before Cregger\u2019s movie hit theaters.<\/p>\n<p>Elliot points out that, while deep discounts made up for most of these impressive numbers beforehand, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/resident-evil-movie-2026-review\">Austin Abrams\u2019 deeply relatable<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data shows that Zach Cregger\u2019s film adaptation of Capcom\u2019s flagship horror franchise was so successful, it boosted sales for copies of both Resident Evil 2 Remake and RE4\u2019s 2023 remake on the PlayStation 5. Cregger\u2019s Resident Evil has enjoyed resounding success on all fronts; not only is it the single most-profitable Resident Evil movie ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":90288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90290,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90286\/revisions\/90290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}