Speaking with Gamesindustry.biz, Capcom vice president, Christian Svensson, said that they're considering resting some of the franchises they've been churning out recently. "We have loads of things which we're still noodling which we haven't touched in years and years and years," Christian Svensson, Capcom's US vice president, told GamesIndustry. "We really still think there's value in trying some stuff with them. Obviously we're heavily reliant right now on a narrower range of core brands. We're looking at ways to not over-saturate the market with them.
"I think that care has to be taken to avoid brand fatigue. Not to name names, I think some people are better or worse at that. We have some concerns internally about, are we doing too much of something?"
Svensson concluded: "You may see some other stuff, which we've been quite prolific with, take a little rest for a while whilst we update some stuff that hasn't been looked at for a while."
With Street Fighter X Tekken and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition on the horizon, plus DLC for Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and more than likely Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition, Capcom still has plenty of immediate plans for their line of fighting games.
What exactly these intentions will or won't mean for Capcom's future fighting games remains to be seen, but it sounds like they want to avoid having too many of their products in the one genre occupying the market space at the same time.
Other source: VideoGamer.com.
I hope they let classic megaman and the x series rest for a bit. They need to get a seriously good rebooting so I hope they take their time and do it right after a few years.
(By rest do you mean reboot Mega Man for the Nth time?)
Sounds like their pretty much saying, No more Dark Void, Bionic Commando(09) and maaaaaaaybe Megaman. I wonder if Inafune's departure has anything to do with the lack of Megaman as of late?
Anyone think he might be talking about Nintendo? Nintendo over-saturates the crap out of Pokemon, in my opinion. They basically release the same game with the same plot, different characters, and a slew of uglier Pokemon with even uglier names. Oh, and I guess now you can play dress-up with your Pokemon, too (How gay is THAT). Heck, I heard that Animal Crossing City folk got dinged for using an old formula, and other games will receive the same criticism. Pokemon's been doing that FOREVER. But Pokemon's turned into such a cult that no one DARES say that one of their games suck. It's pretty sad, really.
Anyways, I hope Capcom brings Power Stone back. They've ignored that series for far too long, and I'm already getting a bit tired of all this Street Fighter stuff.
resident evil should be on the top of the capcom's list of games that could benefit from a hiatus.
what I understand from this is they will probably start up other franchises and cool down a bit on fighting games.
I'm personally looking forward to some more North American Monster Hunter releases.
oh and some Capcom RPGs. Breath of Fire 6 time to reawaken?
it 's understandable, too bad for ds4, but many of their franchise would deserve a spot in the light and they are so different they wouldn't cannibalize each other
breath of fire 6, final fight, maximo/ghost and goblins and a new megaman fully using the power of the currents console, a captain commando, knight of the round table and dungeons and dragon online would be sweet as well
I agree with some of 21's sentiments. Haggar was put into MvC3 so maybe we'll see a new Final Fight game. Or a next gen Ghost n Goblins on the xbox/ps3.
I don't want to see a new DarkStalkers game because there's no way Capcom or Dimps could do the series justice. They just don't have the artistic talent to pull off that highly stylized DarkStalkers look.
What I would like to see is a port of Vampire Chronicles with GGPO-quality netcode.
It obviously means that Capcom will now put some more effort into putting bugs into the more important games.
I'm not buying MvC3 until they patch online play. Show me THAT. :)
I'm dieing for my NGP, I seriously have a fund set aside for that damn device. And the sad part is, thats just because I know Monster Hunter is coming to it. :(
More Monster Hunter Capcom! :D
If they would make another MMX game, it would have to follow how X4 and X5 were, they were great, wonderful games, followed a coherent storyline and above all...
fun.
It would be nice to see how they drop the milking act and actually develop the story that leads into the end of the Sigma Virus, the start of the Elf Wars, the abduction of Zero's original body and how it ties directly into MegaMan Zero.
THAT, would definitely reboot the MegaMan spirit!
yeah mvc3 and ssf4 is enough for now i guess although powerstone and darkstalkers would be keen but what can u do there right too many fighting games would be a problem especially if both powerstone and darkstalkers came out i wouldnt know what to play theres not enough time to play all even though i would wish for this
An Onimusha game & MMX game would be nice. A Powerstone & Breath of Fire game wouldn't hurt. As far as RE is concerned, they main bad guy's dead. I guess that franchise is going to take a break. I love RE, but how can they continue the story w/o the main villian? Also, isn't Capcom working on another DMC game? All in all, we got enough fighting games to last us a while. SSF4(AE), MvC3, SF3 3rd S OE & the SFxT coming out. Let's see what the future has in store for us.
SF3 seems to always bring about an end everytime. They are probably talking about non fighting games, but it will be tough after all the money they'll lose with sf3 remake...its the cancer of capcom.
Hmm... I can see Sven's point about oversaturation, but SF, I think, has the potential to be a madden-like series with yearly updates - patches, characters, and the like, that would potentially dominate the console esports scene. I just hope that, whatever they do, they don't go on a 5+ year hiatus with the sf series.
Also, BoF is a good series I would like to see return. Good rpgs with darker themes (which the bof series has historically had, compared to most other rpgs) are becoming rarer and rarer.
Please put Elena in SF4 before going on a break, though! Please :)
no Darkstalkers or Powerstone..its all good tho. Im happy with MvsC3 and SSFIV.