What’s that got to do with Resident Evil?
I’ll bite though. TLOU2 got 4 million at launch and yet it then suddenly took them 2 years to get to that 10 million despite the great momentum at the start. Also unlike other games released around the same time frame like Doom Eternal, FFVII Remake, Ghost of Tsushima etc it was discounted a lot earlier and more discounted in comparison. I remember seeing it online that following December at GAME for like £19.99 and when it came to the PSN it was also reduced more compared to some others.
God of War 2018 resulted in 3.1 million at launch (a figure lower that TLOU2 at launch), however in ONE year it was revealed to have reached 10 million copies sold.
Ghost of Tsushima, a brand new IP, managed to get 9.73 million sales within 2 years and that only released a month after TLOU2. That’s super close to 10 million and with the game being brand new it had no fanbase already backing it in terms of hype and anticipation.
Yeah 10 million is a great number but lets not kid ourselves, with the hype and love for that franchise I bet you any money Sony were anticipating it to have done a lot bigger with how much was going for it. It’s not a failure in the traditional sense but Sony were clearly hoping to get a lot more sales within that time frame.