All I believe everyone wants Capcom to do is have a branch off studio. A studio made just to recreate or remaster old games. Add ons, no full blown sequels. I personally, would love that for any company with a rich history.
Wolf, how'd you feel if Capcom were to announce a studio dedicated to it's seasoned fans?
If they really want to do that, they should just out-source the projects to some third-party developer like they did with
DmC. One of the big incentives I had to buy it was because it was a revival of the series,
being handled by someone other than Capcom. That's EXACTLY what they should do...that's what they were
going to do with Mega Man: hand him over to Retro Studios, the folks who practically
specialize in reviving old franchises (
Metroid Prime, Donkey Kong Country Returns, etc.)
Look at Nintendo. They do a lot of their projects in-house, but a lot of their revived franchises have come from third-party developers. Rare and Namco produced some excellent
Star Fox games for a new generation. Project Sora revived
Kid Icarus. Square Enix took the reigns for shifting the
Mario license into the RPG genre. Sega revived
F-Zero for the GameCube. Intelligent Systems has been the sole contributor to the
Fire Emblem series for almost twenty years. Tecmo Koei had even more say on what was in
Hyrule Warriors than Nintendo did.
This is exactly what
Capcom needs to do. If it doesn't want to go bankrupt, but it still wants to hold onto its intellectual properties that have made them money for years,
don't be afraid to outsource projects to outside companies.
And while other companies and developers handle the old franchises, Capcom has free reign to do what it
should be doing in this day and age: sit down, clear the desk of cluttered ideas and rehashed sequels, and MAKE SOME NEW GAMES THAT AREN'T BOUND TO OLDER IP'S.
