Resident Evil 9 release date narrowed down by Capcom and it's not good news
The chances of Resident Evil 9 being released next year have just shrunk dramatically, unless Capcom feels like putting it up against GTA 6.
The summer preview season is about to start soon, with Summer Game Fest due on June 6 (a day after the Switch 2 launch) and Xbox's showcase a few days later on June 8. Although so far there's no indication of PlayStation having an event, even though they usually have theirs in late May.
Capcom sometimes has one in the summer as well, although they have also used Summer Game Fest to make big announcements, such as for Monster Hunter Wilds. So plenty of fans are hoping we might finally get a proper reveal of Resident Evil 9 at that time.
The game has already been officially announced, last July, but nothing has ever been shown or said about it. It's therefore reasonable to hope for a full reveal in the near future, but Capcom's own financial targets make it very unlikely it'll be out until after March 2026.
Although Capcom made no new mention of Resident Evil 9, their latest results – which showed the company to be in rude financial health – included sales predictions of only 8 million for new games in their current financial year, which ends on March 31.
That's less than at any time in the last five years, which makes sense because at the moment they don't have anything new scheduled for that period, beyond some Switch 2 ports.
Unless they're expecting Resident Evil 9 to be a flop, that makes it seemingly impossible that they're preparing for a launch before April. That's particularly significant because you'd have to go all the way back to Resident Evil 6 to find any mainline entry that launched later in the year than May.
Even that was an anomaly, with the majority of new Resident Evil games coming out between January and March.
There's nothing stopping Capcom from changing the way they do things, except their kind of is, because GTA 6 is out on May 26 and they're not going to be stupid enough to release it anytime around then. More Trending
GTA 6 is almost certainly going to be dominating sales and mindshare for the rest of 2026, so while it's not impossible that Capcom is planning an autumn release for Resident Evil 9 the more likely bet would be that it's not out until 2027 or later.
Officially, Capcom has said nothing about the next mainline entry in the series but there have been persistent rumours that it is an open world title.
With Resident Evil Village's DLC tying up the plot threads from the last two games more quickly than expected, there's also suggestions that Resident Evil 9 will go back to a third person view, rather than first person.
The only thing Capcom has said is that Resident Evil 9 'feels substantial' but while there's a good chance we'll find out more relatively soon it may be a lot longer until anyone gets to actually play it.
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