
Capcom writes: "PR Staff: Let's start by talking about you. You've said that you're a big movie fan. Has that had an impact on your work?
Takeuchi: Well, soon after joining Capcom, I was assigned to the team working on the original Resident Evil. Shinji Mikami was the director for that one. I was involved with production from the beginning of the series, and it was decided that the game would have a horror slant to it. At that time, if someone said "horror," you would immediately think of movies; since we were making a movie-like game, I knew my interests in movies would serve me well."

Circana data shows Resident Evil 5 as the best selling Resident Evil game in the US, ahead of Resident Evil 4 remake and Village.
So the most successful RE is the one where a white man is killing Africans.
This can't be real.

New leaks from Dusk Golem detail cancelled Resident Evil projects, including a Rebecca focused Revelations game, while stating no Resident Evil 5 remake is in development.
Capcom's willingness to invest in experiments and scrap them sets them apart form many other developers (Nintendo have a similar methodology). Far too often companies push a game setting or game mechanic that is just not that good and the final product is middling or poor.

Dusk Golem claims a Resident Evil 5 remake is not coming this year, with a Code Veronica remake expected instead.
Hopefully if and when they do a RE5 remake, they give it the RE3 remake treatment, because this is certainly one title that I don't want a faithful remake of.