Resident Evil 7's marketing director Antoine Molant has expressed his confidence in the game's quality, saying that he'd love the game to score "only nines or tens" upon its release next month, but that he's "sure we'll see a few eights as well". "We'd love to have only nines or tens, but I'm sure we'll see a few eights as well," he said, speaking in the latest issue of MCV. "We're very confident in terms of the quality. Commercially, it's probably the biggest Capcom game we are releasing on the new machines."

Pre-orders for the game are already "very good", Molant says, with the January release date providing a "really nice window" of opportunity. The game is said to be targeting 4 million sales on day one.