Resident Evil Villagehas seen a huge amount of popularity on Twitch upon release, with large and small streamers jumping at the opportunity to play the newResident Eviltitle. The latest iteration in theResident Evilseries, the gamehas had the most successful launch of any game in the franchise thus far.
RecentResident Eviltitles have had reasonably strong launches on Twitch, withResident Evil 7sitting at 224,481 peak viewers on the platform and bothResident Evil 2 RemakeandResident Evil 3Remakebeating it out at 314,000 and 318,000 viewers, respectively. The successful launch of the gamehas likely been spurred on by the multitude of memes about one ofResident Evil Village’smain antagonists, Lady Dimitrescu, for whom the internet’s thirst seemingly knows no bounds.
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With a Twitch viewership of over 420,000,Resident Evil Villagehas already eclipsedpreviousResident Eviltitles. Streamers such as Hasan and Lirik are certainly partially responsible for this number, but the game has no one streamer to thank, with a huge number of smaller streamers also bolstering the launch viewership. This also means thatResident Evil Villageis likely being viewed and played for the actual content of the game, rather than just for the personality of the streamers playing it.
Much of this boost in numbers is likely to do with the rise of Twitch in recent years, with viewership numbers for many new releases being far higher than they’ve been in previous years as the service gains more popularity. Word-of-mouth has also become an important part of marketing for games, with meme and internet culture helping to spread the word about new titles. The extremely positive response to Lady Dimitrescu may seem like something insignificant, but the huge amount of extra coverage thatResident Evil Villagegot from the viral contentsurrounding the character likely helped to propel the game to its large viewership numbers.
As the game is mostly centered on its single-player component,Resident Evil Village’sviewershipwill likely start to drop as players beat the campaign and viewers have seen the entirety of the story on Twitch. Having said that, there is the possibility of another uptick in viewers occurring once the speedrunning community starts to learn the game’s route. In any case,Resident Evil Villagehas already beaten out its predecessors and been a huge success for Capcom, which could mean good news for people hoping for DLC in the future.
Resident Evil Villageis available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
