{"id":63992,"date":"2026-03-25T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=63992"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:52:11","slug":"capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Capcom reveals Resident Evil 4 remake Merchant\u2019s total\u00a0revenue\u00a0and expenses, and the poor fellow is drowning in debt\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To commemorate three years since the&nbsp;release of the&nbsp;<strong>Resident Evil 4<\/strong>&nbsp;remake, Capcom\u2019s Resident Evil Portal account posted two new statistics about the game,&nbsp;which, oddly enough, have to do with the Merchant\u2019s earnings. Based on players\u2019&nbsp;total&nbsp;transactions, the Merchant has bought far more of Leon Kennedy\u2019s&nbsp;and Ada Wong\u2019s&nbsp;wares than he has sold, racking up a debt that&nbsp;could&nbsp;rival a country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s the 3rd anniversary of the Resident Evil 4 remake!<br>The Merchant\u2019s debt has ballooned way past 3 trillion by now&#8230;<br><br>Total Losses<br>-3,337,279,919,290 ptas<br>(That&#39;s a lot of rocket launchers!)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/REBHFun?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#REBHFun<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wdzrNvxvT6\">pic.twitter.com\/wdzrNvxvT6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u3010\u516c\u5f0f\u3011\u30d0\u30a4\u30aa\u30cf\u30b6\u30fc\u30c9 \/ RESIDENT EVIL PORTAL Official (@REBHPortal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/REBHPortal\/status\/2036473157612347713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;hard to&nbsp;determine&nbsp;the current exchange rate of Pesetas to USD (Resident Evil 4\u2019s currency is based&nbsp;on&nbsp;an old Spanish tender that was replaced by the Euro in 2002),&nbsp;3,337,279,919,290&nbsp;PTS&nbsp;is still&nbsp;a very large&nbsp;number.&nbsp;Considering one of the most expensive items in the game, the Rocket Launcher, costs&nbsp;160,000 PTS&nbsp;on Hardcore and Professional&nbsp;mode,&nbsp;that would amount to at least&nbsp;20,857,999&nbsp;of the explosive weapons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1072\" height=\"568\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1072px) 100vw, 1072px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-001.jpg 1072w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-001-380x201.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-001-768x407.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You&nbsp;can\u2019t&nbsp;exactly&nbsp;fault&nbsp;the Merchant&nbsp;for his losses. Resident Evil 4&nbsp;has&nbsp;several items&nbsp;just&nbsp;lying&nbsp;around&nbsp;its&nbsp;world for you&nbsp;to&nbsp;pick up and&nbsp;sell, with the most expensive items being pieces of jewelry that can be slotted with gems&nbsp;to increase their value.&nbsp;On top of that, you can&nbsp;and are&nbsp;advised to&nbsp;sell&nbsp;unwanted weapons and items to make room in your&nbsp;attach\u00e9 case and inventory, which is more limited compared to other Resident Evil titles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the rural area\u2019s current situation and how easy it is to find valuables,&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;a wonder how the Merchant still manages to remain in business. His losses&nbsp;don\u2019t&nbsp;seem to bother him, however, as he always manages to greet&nbsp;his customers&nbsp;with a laugh and a \u201cWhat\u2019re&nbsp;ya&nbsp;buyin\u2019?\u201d,&nbsp;knowing full well&nbsp;he\u2019s&nbsp;getting the short end of the deal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/reviews\/what-are-the-chances-of-resident-evil-4s-merchant-returning-in-a-future-entry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What are the chances of Resident Evil 4\u2019s Merchant returning in a future entry?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230327-18250\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RE4 remake\u2019s Merchant is unkillable, unlike in the original<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capcom has given us an unusual piece of trivia about Resident Evil 4 &#8211; the total revenue and losses incurred by the Merchant in his transactions with players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":63995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-63992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Capcom reveals Resident Evil 4 remake Merchant\u2019s total\u00a0revenue\u00a0and expenses, and the poor fellow is drowning in debt\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Capcom has given us an unusual piece of trivia about Resident Evil 4 - the total revenue and losses incurred by the Merchant in his transactions with players.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Capcom reveals Resident Evil 4 remake Merchant\u2019s total\u00a0revenue\u00a0and expenses, and the poor fellow is drowning in debt\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Capcom has given us an unusual piece of trivia about Resident Evil 4 - the total revenue and losses incurred by the Merchant in his transactions with players.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"AUTOMATON WEST\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-03-25T13:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-header.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1402\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"786\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Carlos &quot;Zoto&quot; Zotomayor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AUTOMATON_ENG\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carlos &quot;Zoto&quot; Zotomayor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Capcom reveals Resident Evil 4 remake Merchant\u2019s total\u00a0revenue\u00a0and expenses, and the poor fellow is drowning in debt\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","description":"Capcom has given us an unusual piece of trivia about Resident Evil 4 - the total revenue and losses incurred by the Merchant in his transactions with players.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Capcom reveals Resident Evil 4 remake Merchant\u2019s total\u00a0revenue\u00a0and expenses, and the poor fellow is drowning in debt\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","og_description":"Capcom has given us an unusual piece of trivia about Resident Evil 4 - the total revenue and losses incurred by the Merchant in his transactions with players.","og_url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/","og_site_name":"AUTOMATON WEST","article_published_time":"2026-03-25T13:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1402,"height":786,"url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-header.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_site":"@AUTOMATON_ENG","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/"},"author":{"name":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2812ca8facd5f161edfbc531cf81eb31"},"headline":"Capcom reveals Resident Evil 4 remake Merchant\u2019s total\u00a0revenue\u00a0and expenses, and the poor fellow is drowning in debt\u00a0","datePublished":"2026-03-25T13:00:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/"},"wordCount":399,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-header.jpg","keywords":["News (Japan-related)"],"articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/","name":"Capcom reveals Resident Evil 4 remake Merchant\u2019s total\u00a0revenue\u00a0and expenses, and the poor fellow is drowning in debt\u00a0 - AUTOMATON WEST","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-header.jpg","datePublished":"2026-03-25T13:00:00+00:00","description":"Capcom has given us an unusual piece of trivia about Resident Evil 4 - the total revenue and losses incurred by the Merchant in his transactions with players.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-header.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325-63992-header.jpg","width":1402,"height":786,"caption":"Resident Evil 4 remake Merchant"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/capcom-reveals-resident-evil-4-remake-merchants-total-revenue-and-expenses-and-the-poor-fellow-is-drowning-in-debt\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"\u30db\u30fc\u30e0","item":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Capcom reveals Resident Evil 4 remake Merchant\u2019s total\u00a0revenue\u00a0and expenses, and the poor fellow is drowning in debt\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","name":"AUTOMATON WEST","description":"AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#organization","name":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/activegamingmedia_logo.png","width":374,"height":190,"caption":"\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30d6\u30b2\u30fc\u30df\u30f3\u30b0\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/AUTOMATON_ENG","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCabvYnvuUUbbGUrxkaFRgSA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2812ca8facd5f161edfbc531cf81eb31","name":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/display-pic-100x100.jpg","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/display-pic-100x100.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/display-pic-100x100.jpg","caption":"Carlos \"Zoto\" Zotomayor"},"description":"Automaton West writer. Zoto has been playing video games for 30+ years now but has only recently come to grips with PC gaming. When he isn't playing video games, he watches romance anime and gets mad when his best girl never wins.","url":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/author\/carlos-zotomayor\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63998,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63992\/revisions\/63998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}