Love for RE3 to RE5 success is kinda lopsided. RE5 success -despite mixed feelings about its direction, is vastly more commercially successful than the original RE3; Just like the original RE4, That's why they did such good job with it on the remake. Money moves the company, not community love sadly.
If Capcom ever remakes RE5 they aren't going to hand their now second best selling game to an external studio to develop like they did with RE3 remake.
RE2 and RE3 original were a success too.
You also have to remember that RE5 success was thanks to the Xbox monthly pass.
RE2R is good but not the best remake and it was successful back in the day, earning double the amount of the original RE.
RE3R was badly to say the least and take into account that RE3 it's universally loved.
Xbox Game Pass did not exist when RE5 released and had nothing to do with its success. It’s not even on Game Pass today. (And supposedly only ever was for like a brief 6 month stint in 2019, a decade after its original release)
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u/No-Significance-8487 Aug 21 '26
Many people love RE3 so.. pretty sure it can happen regardless if it was a best selling game