Capcom has gone from strength to strength through the PlayStation 4 generation, posting record sales with Monster Hunter: World and revitalizing the Resident Evil franchise with Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and Resident Evil 2. It's a feel-good story , and it doesn't work. It seems that the Japanese publisher has no intention of stopping the sequence. Revealed in its new financial results, Capcom aims to release a number of “major” games before March 31, 2021.
In total, the company plans to release 13 references. This does not mean that it will release 13 games in total, but rather 13 different versions of its upcoming titles. For example, Resident Evil 3 was made up of three SKUs: the PS4, Xbox One, and PC version. Resident Evil 8 is rumored to be Capcom's next big game in the pipeline, and due to the assumption that it will be a cross-gen title, it will most likely span five of those SKUs (PlayStation 5 , PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One and PC).
That leaves us with five more SKUs to work with, which could mean Capcom has another big cross-gen game lined up for the near future. What could it be? Well, the Japanese publisher classifies its "major" games as something that's at least as big as Monster Hunter World: Iceborne. Its recent Nintendo Switch ports of the Devil May Cry franchise don't count. The speculated Resident Evil 4 remake won't come this fiscal year either, so that's another game you can rule out for now.
Could this make way for a new Street Fighter game? A reboot of Dead Rising? A revival of Power Stone? Share your predictions in the comments below.
