Capcom Teases Resident Evil 9 In This New Light-Hearted Video To Celebrate 10m Resident Evil 4 Players

Capcom has dropped a sneaky small Resident Evil 9 tease successful plain sight.

In solemnisation of hitting a staggering 10 cardinal players, the Resident Evil 4 dev squad uploaded a abbreviated video to societal media earlier today, April 25, showing Ada Wong having a quiescent connection with 1 of gaming's astir iconic villains earlier cutting to Leon, the infected horde astir him donning enactment hats arsenic they mosey towards the church.

It past cuts to a stone song, Dr Salvador strumming his chainsaw similar a guitar — yes, truly — and the camera pans backmost to amusement a fist-pumping Leon. Behind him is simply a rustic motion with the words "Thank you for playing" emblazoned crossed it.

You tin spot it successful afloat below:

Turn that motion onto its side, however, and the boards connected the motion marque the roman numeral "IX," aka the fig 9.

While it's imaginable this could each beryllium wholly coincidental, arsenic fearfulness crippled leaker Dusk Golem points out, there's clearly nary little plank connected the aforesaid motion successful earlier parts of the video, truthful it was surely added intentionally. Make of that what you will.

"I cognize what you did here," said 1 amazed responder, appending a wide-eyes emoji.

Capcom has confirmed the adjacent mainline introduction successful the Resident Evil bid volition beryllium directed by Resident Evil 7 manager Koshi Nakanishi.

"It was truly hard to fig retired what to bash aft [Resident Evil 7]," Nakanishi said astatine the time. "But I recovered it, and to beryllium honorable it feels substantial. I can't stock immoderate details conscionable yet, but I anticipation you're excited for the time I can." It's thought — if not confirmed — it'll instrumentality spot connected an land inspired by Singapore.

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