Selvom Resident Evil 3, trods lidt værre anmeldelser end sidste års Resident Evil 2, er en endnu et succesfuldt kapitel i serien, så har rygterne svirret de sidste par måneder om seriens fremtid, og mere specifikt Resident Evil 8. Den troværdige insider Dusk Golem, eller AestheticGamer, har nemlig delt et hav af detaljer om den kommende fortsættelse af serien, som ifølge ham bliver et kontroversielt kapitel, der ikke falder i alles smag.
Nu har han fortalt mere om det kommende spil, som angiveligt ankommer næste år til både gamle og nye konsoller, men det var faktisk ikke den originale plan. Den originale plan var, at det skulle være Resident Evil Revelations 3, der skulle udkomme i 2021. I en række beskeder på Twitter siger han følgende:
"Okay, so the little game is done. This will be breaking this month with more details later not by myself, but I've needed to clear some stuff up. "Resident Evil 2021" is Resident Evil 8, but it wasn't always RE8. During most of its development it existed as Revelations 3. The reason I said RE8 was "years away" earlier this year is last year a RE8 was in development, & that one is years away. But Capcom didn't want a huge gap between RE7 and RE8, so that title got pushed to the side for now, & internal testing and such was super positive on Rev 3. Revelations 3 was received a lot better by testers, internally, etc, than they expected. So the game's been given an additional year in the oven to convert itself to RE8. The Ambassador leaks about Werewolves and Ethan in a Snowy Village are 100% true, but they're outdated info."
Det lader til at situationen omkring serien er ret kaotisk.