Capcom To Double Its Game Output?
The world needs more zombies.
Published: 7:30, 27/07/2010 by Dan Lee.
41According to a report from Nikkei’s web edition, Capcom fully intends to increase its game output in an attempt to avoid the falling earnings it experienced last year.
What this means is popular franchises – such as Resident Evil – could see up to four games a year, rather than the standard two. To achieve this, Capcom plans on making use of outsourcing, centred primarily on North American and European studios. Using this tactic could knock game development time down to between two and three years.
Whilst on paper this seems like a sound theory, we all know what happened when the ‘Band’ games flooded the market last year. People got fed up and lost interest, and subsequently sales fell.
Can Capcom inject enough variety to keep us interested for up to four franchise games per year?
Source: Andriasang
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27/07/2010 at 08:08
Member since: Jun 2009
If they can bring back the atmosphere from the first three Resident Evils, then yes
27/07/2010 at 09:51
Member since: Apr 2010
They should concentrate on upping the quality before the quantity. Their contribution to the current gen hasn’t been so great compared to their PS1 and PS2 games.
27/07/2010 at 10:05
Member since: Apr 2010
So when’s the next resi planned for release?
27/07/2010 at 10:24
Member since: Forever
CAPCOM were the guys in the 16bit days
Strider, Ghouls N Ghosts, Gauntlet, Mercs, Final Fight and of course Street Fighter II, they carried this on to the PlayStation generation with Resident Evil, but then what….
A certain amount of resting on their backsides re-releasing Street Fighter, Resi & Capcom Vs games for years now
Has-beens?
27/07/2010 at 10:28
Member since: May 2009
you’d think if they were looking for some quick cash they’d just port some PS1 and 2 games, or the first Dead Rising to the PS3. That’s gotta be quicker then making new games, and better then flooding the market with SF and RE games, especially considering that Capcom doesn’t trust their western partners anymore.
27/07/2010 at 10:47
Member since: Jul 2009
Im calling for a new dino crisis. dino 1 & 2 were great, 3rd not so good. CAPCOM, do dino crisis again!!
27/07/2010 at 13:25
Member since: Aug 2009
Well today there still isn’t a Monster Hunter on Playstation 3 even though its sales are on par with the Wii (guess) in Japan so…. why can’t Capcom instead of selling out to Microsoft release a new single player/online experience that I had come to love on Playstation 2, PSP and the Wii?