I bet every fan wants it, and that is to see Capcom faithfully revisit older intellectual properties (IPs) that are thought to be dead or dormant. Well, that wish may come true according to the company’s recent financial report.
To put things in context, back on December 29th and 30th, 2017, Capcom showed interest in making new games based on two older titles under its portfolio. The two games happen to be that of Dino Crisis en Onimusha.
During 2018, Capcom’s investor report sees the long-running company answering questions, and one of the many queries revolves around the likelihood of “other remakes.”
Capcom responded with the following:
“Verder verwachten we, met betrekking tot remakes en heruitgaven van titels in onze backcatalogus, deze verder te onderzoeken met een verscheidenheid aan eigenschappen als onderdeel van onze strategie om onze bibliotheek met IP te gebruiken.”
Snel vooruit naar eind juni 2019, en we leren van de website videogameschronicle.com via an interview with Capcom’s managing corporate officer, Ryozo Tsujimoto, that among remakes and re-releases there will be new games and franchises to come moving forward:
“We geven het idee om nieuwe personages en series te creëren niet op, maar we doen het momenteel behoorlijk goed met het introduceren van nieuwe, frisse benaderingen voor onze bestaande series.”
Tsujimoto vervolgde en vertelt de website de volgende informatie:
“Dat werkt heel goed voor ons [door nieuwe benaderingen van bestaande series te brengen], maar we zullen onze ogen nooit afwenden van het maken van originele games in de toekomst.”
As of now, website metro.co.uk looked over Capcom’s integrated report for 2019 and found three interesting bullet points. The first goal is to strengthen digital sales, while the second step is to increase the length of support for existing titles, and thirdly to “awaken dormant intellectual properties.” The quote from the publication site lies below:
“Het meest opwindende deel voor fans is echter het driepuntenplan van Capcom voor de toekomst, namelijk 1. de digitale verkoop versterken, 2. de ondersteuningsduur voor bestaande titels vergroten en 3. ‘slapende intellectuele eigendommen wakker maken’.”
Ever since 2017, Capcom has been dropping hints that they want to explore older IPs, but they didn’t have the development staff to do so and wanted to see more requests from gamers and fans alike.
Well, it looks like they’re getting around to filling positions on deck and have enough fan interest to move along with dormant IPs rising sometime in 2020 and beyond, as well as creating wholly new games.
