• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Next Month: CAPCOM’s Guide to Over-saturating an Already Over-saturated Zombie-Game Market.

    Next Year: CAPCOM cancels five Resident Evil games in development.

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      1 year ago

      I thought recent RE games were well received? I’ve never heard so much positivity about the franchise since its early days.

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        1 year ago

        They are, but five of them? It seems like they’re ready and willing to kill current goodwill in respect to their games by stepping on the gas instead of realizing why people suddenly liked the games again.

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          1 year ago

          I’m guessing those 5 games include at least a few spinoffs in different genres. Although we saw how well that worked out for Umbrella Corps.

        • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          The Yakuza team, to release games so frequently (like 1-2 a year) has small teams work on multiple games at once. So like the minigame team may be building games for all of them in a year.

          It could be similar with Capcom.

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          1 year ago

          The past few years have had at least four reaident evil games in development at the same time.

          Re3make, 4make, village, that weird multiplayer one all going at the same time. It’s really not as unusual as you are making it seem. People like resident evil more than ever right now.

          I imagine the situation is similar to this, but maybe mobile or switch games involved.

      • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Capcom are making the same mistake with RE as Ubisoft did with Assassin’s Creed in my opinion. Focus the whole giant studio on making games for one IP, then when that stops selling the whole ship will sink.