Insider: Resident Evil 9 was transferred to 2026, but the game will be shown soon

Lutusfix insider, who previously claimed his participation in the closed test of Resident Evil 9, spoke about serious permutations in the plans of the developers. Despite the initial plan and the already finished marketing strategy, the release of the game was postponed to 2026. Although they initially wanted to release the horror in the second half of 2025, they decided to give Capcom more time for development and polishing.

As the author of the leak notes, the Marketing Strategy Resident Evil 9 was originally designed for release in 2025. At the beginning of this, an active discussion occurred inside Capcom as a result of which it was decided to transfer the project. What became the main reason for this is not entirely clear, probably this decision was influenced by the totality of external factors and the desire to give more time to develop

previously Lutusfix claimed that in May 2024 he participated in a closed test Re9, where A fragment of the game for Jill Valentine was held. The action was deployed in an abandoned hospital filled with zombies and new types of monsters. Enemies among whom were a new type of hunters, as well as a pursuer, dynamically tracking the player, like Mr. X or Nemesis. According to him, in the atmosphere, the game resembled the remake of Resident Evil 2.

This is what Lutusfix about the Resident Evil 9 told:

officially the Resident Evil 9 was announced in July 2024, then It became known that the game is headed by Kosi Nakanishi, the Geimdirector of Resident Evil 7. However, since then, Capcom has not shared new details about the project.