The mysterious silence

Same. Rumors have made RE9's development seem like a mess. Sounds like a Resident Evil 3.5 situation, except they're keeping it very secret. I'm surprised they even did a segment confirming the game's development last year. Does lead one to believe there was some kind of delay as it was likely to have been revealed then for them to feel the need to even mention it without any proper look at the game.

Resident Evil 2, 3, and 7 were just released natively for the PS5 and now it appears the same may be happening to 0, Remake, 4, and 6. These games can already be played on modern hardware and for some reason 5 is excluded from these listings. A proper port of the original RE4 is welcome, but I don't really see the need for the rest that already look and run well unless they're planning on adding anything and including all of 0's DLC content on disc.

Re-releasing 0 again seems like a strange move too, if they really are remaking 0. Especially with the possibility that it can release before RE9. So I wouldn't count this year out yet in terms of a new RE release. But part of me does wonder if RE9's prolonged development is why things have slowed down and why they might be prioritizing ports at the moment.

From everything I've heard about RE9, they were leaning more toward it being a bigger game. There were even some talks about it being open world, I think?

Taking that into account, I don't think it's super surprising that we haven't heard much about it.

As far as other Resident Evil news, like another remake, I would think they're waiting on 9 to be released. They got the major player as far as projected profits go for remakes out of the way when they released 4. They're more than likely betting that, with the mixed feelings about CV and 0, 9 will be more profitable than a remake of either of those.

Yeah I think it's really odd that we haven't gotten any sort of news related to new games. We got the announcement of yet another reboot of the Resident Evil film franchise. As far as game news, I guess we got the GOG news about RE1 - 3 being released on PC? It's strange. If we do get an announcement this year, it better be something crazy because they've been keeping everyone in suspense lol.

Best case scenario: we get a teaser trailer in the spring and more in depth coverage in the summer probably at E3.

Really not much else to say because we don't know much else. Nakanishi doesn't have the best track record for quality (he directed Revelations 1 and RE7, both left a lot to be desired!) but with the Winters saga being over (at least for now) and him not releasing anything since Not a Hero, literally anything could happen!

I'd say the more time spent on development and QA the better, much has happened with the franchise since 2017 so if he finds a good writer and a good programming team, great!

I'll be cautiously optimistic for the time being and this delay actually makes me more comfortable despite being annoying. I'd rather wait a while for a good game than be tightly time-bandwidthed into a mediocre one.

Good luck and God speed! SH2R was fantastic so the bar is pretty high right now, especially with all these high quality survival horror games hitting the market, so I would say there's a lot at stake here.

I think we'll finally see something once Monster Hunter is out.