Thread by @AestheticGamer1

(1/6) Okay, so just to be forward, here's what I've said about RE9 in the past. NONE of this is new, you can find tweets of me saying all of this over the years, I think I first started talking lightly about it back in 2020.

Resident Evil 9 was first conceived in 2018, at the

https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1/status/1807908171681615949

(2/6) time RE7 had missed their sales goals at launch. There was an RE8 concept that was a direct sequel to RE7 in Village, but it got sidelined a bit after RE7's original lower than expected initial sales & a middling received vertical slice demo. A more ambitious RE8 that was

(3/6) to be open world using advancements to the RE Engine they were developing for Dragon's Dogma 2 (such as being open world) was greenlit, but there came concern with the amount of time this title would take as Capcom didn't want there to be a 6+ year gap between RE7 & RE8.

(4/6) Village had been doing well internally in its development, so in 2019 it was decided to re-plot their course, Village became RE8 again, what was RE8 at the time became RE9. At the time, RE9 was an open-world style game set on a Southeast Asian Island.

They thought of

(5/6) dropping numbers from future entries, & having RE9 be a "closing chapter" for several plot threads in the story, so could move onto something new, with RE9 innovating also as a new beginning for things gameplay wise.

To my knowledge, RE9 has had some level of reboot in dev

(6/7) a bit after RE8 came out, & it got delayed from a Q1 2025 release to a late 2025/2026 release as of earlier this year. Original plans were to reveal it last month, but been delayed for now.

At this point in time I don't have a good grasp on the level of reboot RE9 went

(7/7) through, RE games get rebooted in dev often but can vary from a soft-reboot to a hard-reboot in scale. This is hardly surprising, but they're hoping RE9 is the first non-remake RE to get the critical & fan reception that RE:2 & RE:4 got, but while innovating the franchise.