One of my favorite features to come out this generation is the ability to download a demo. No longer do we have to wait for the latest issue of an official magazine and hope that month comes packed with a fun demo. Today, it seems like every week we have the opportunity to download a demo. On top of this, it is a great way for a publisher to give us gamers a tease to what the actual game will play like.

When Star Wars: The Force Unleashed demo arrived on Xbox Live, 1.3 million people downloaded the demo in the first three days. Until now, that was the the most downloaded demo in that amount of time. But that record has now been officially been beaten by Capcom’s Zombie shooter.

The highly anticipated title Resident Evil 5 is coming out later this year. Because of the popularity of the series, Capcom decided to release a demo to the American audience and to say some people downloaded it would be an understatement. In three days, 1.8 million Xbox Live subscribers went on the Marketplace and selected the demo to play — beating out Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. These numbers are a sure sign for good things to come for Capcom and their Resident Evil franchise.