Many Resident Evil fans feel disappointed after publisher Capcom's weeklong mystery countdown culminated in an announcement for Street Fighter 6.
Many a Resident Evil fan has expressed disappointment at the Capcom countdown ending in a Street Fighter 6 reveal. Capcom launched a countdown timer last week that was scheduled to end on February 20 at 10:00 PM PT. It didn't take long for Street Fighter fans to conclude that a new game reveal would go live once the clock struck zero, especially since the finals for the Street Fighter Tournaments took place on February 20.
Other Capcom faithful thought differently, though, hoping that a Resident Evil announcement of some kind would take center stage instead. After all, Resident Evil Village players continue to await the previously promised story expansion that Capcom teased during its E3 2021 presentation. Leaked details that spewed from a ransomware attack on the publisher in November 2020 indicate several other Resident Evil titles are in development as well, meaning new game reveals could go live sooner rather than later. To the chagrin of some, however, Capcom itself is not yet ready to play its hand in the survival horror department.
After Capcom's countdown timer fully wound down to reveal a Street Figher 6 teaser trailer, fan account Resident Evil Central noted expressed disappointment but acknowledged that Street Fighter news did indeed constitute the "most likely scenario." Other fans like Twitter user Joshua Yetter weren't so gracious in letting their displeasure be known. Meanwhile, content creator Andi Hamilton noted upset Resident Evil faithful worked themselves up while knowing that Street Fighter's tournament offered the biggest hint about a potential fighting game announcement.
People are raging that the Capcom announcement was SF6 and not Resident Evil, despite the fact that from the second the countdown began everyone was saying "that ends right at the end of Capcom's big Street Fighter tournament that weekend".
You worked yourself into a shoot.
— 𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖎 𝖍𝖆𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖙𝖔𝖓 (@andihero) February 21, 2022
While the disappointment is somewhat understandable, all signs did point to the countdown ending with Street Fighter news. Resident Evil fans shouldn't fret, however; as mentioned previously, the publisher has a team hard at work on Resident Evil Village DLC. What the post-launch content will entail presently remains unknown, yet many hope Lady Dimitrescu and her brood player a larger role than they did in the main game.
The most recent entry in the long-running horror series, Resident Evil Village, hit store shelves in May 2021 for PC, last-gen, and current-gen consoles. It's since gone on to move over five million units worldwide, an impressive feat that demonstrates the renewed health of the once beleaguered survival horror brand. Beyond DLC for RE Village, there exists no official word on what else Capcom may have planned for the series. Although, ongoing rumors about a Resident Evil 4 remake give even more credence to the ransomware leaks that made the rounds over a year ago.
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