[STEAM] Resident Evil Requiem is Still Almost Entirely Sold Out Online, With Physical Copies Only Available at Select Retailers

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Physical copies of the highly anticipated

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are

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, with the game just about sold out everywhere on all platforms.

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, Best Buy, GameStop, and Walmart are entirely sold out of Xbox copies of the game at the time of publication, while only

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is also the only online retailer with the game available to buy on

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, almost $7 more than its MSRP of $69.99. (Update, 3/9: Copies for Switch 2 are now out of stock at

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, and the listing is back to $69.99.

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is also entirely sold out online right now.

Digital copies remain widely available for preorder across all platforms, and there's a discount on the PC version if you buy from

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Requiem released on PS5, Xbox, Switch 2, and PC on February 27.

Editor's Note: This article was published prior to Resident Evil Requiem's launch, but has since been updated with relevant new information. The following part of the article has been left unaltered for prosperity, but discusses launch times and preloads for February 27, when the game initially released. The original article continues from here.

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will unlock across the world in major territories when bought digitally.

Anyone who has preordered on Steam can already start preloading the game. For those in the US, PlayStation and Xbox will unlock at the equivalent of midnight EST on February 27 (February 26, 9 PM PST).

With release imminent, spoilers have already started to spread online. Earlier this week, Resident Evil 2 director and famed developer

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and should "be cursed to never be able to play games again."

Reviews have also been positive for the latest entry in the survival horror franchise, with IGN's Tristan Ogilvie awarding it a

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, stating:

"Like the result of an experiment conducted in an underground Umbrella Corporation lab, Resident Evil Requiem successfully splices two separate strains of survival horror together into the one highly infectious new mutation."

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