Draft:Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (バイオハザード アポカリプス) is an upcoming video game developed by Capcom Division 1. Its title follows the naming convention started with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard in prioritising names over numbers, owing to marketing concerns that increasingly large numbers would put new players off. Informally however it is still "Resident Evil 9" in all other respects.

Development
Work likely began around 2019 during a pre-planned expansion of Capcom's R&D teams at Division 1, though the producer and director has not been named. As part of a long-term strategy by Capcom, it has been in parallel development with several other Resident Evil titles, with the general goal of within 2.5 years per release with the more ambitious target of annual where possible. While Capcom uses the Nvidia GeForceNOW for cloud storage in games development, Apocalypse was not part of the September 2021 leak. It was initially slated for a late FY2023 release, and was teased as such in a Resident Evil Village easter egg, but has since been delayed into FY2024. In 2022 it had not yet been agreed upon by developers if future titles were to be in first or third-person perspective. Nothing is yet known of the story for the game. Based on comments by producers Kento Kinoshita and Masachika Kawata, Apocalypse will be a separate story from the Winters Saga, which was concluded with "Shadows of Rose". On July 1, 2024 Capcom Showcase, it was revealed that the next entry of Resident Evil is in development; which will be led by director Koshi Nakanish.