Prediction: Capcom will announce a major Wii game in 2010

[Demotruk]

bobobologna said:

psrock said:
RE5 I guess.

A bad game bomb on the HD console, all the sudden third party are going to jump to the Wii?

69 million users isn't enough?

To add a little to this, Bionic Commando and Dark Void were not developed by Capcom.  Bionic Commando was developed by GRIN (now defunct, a crappy developer anyways), and Dark Void was done by Airtight Games.  If anything, it just means that Capcom is going to be more careful about what titles they farm out to other developers.

http://kotaku.com/5435922/capcom-still-burning-over-bionic-commando-failure

"Our experience with Bionic Commando has demonstrated the difficulty of outsourcing the development of new title to overseas companies", he said. "Nevertheless, we cannot develop a sufficient number of titles without using the resources of these companies. This is why we plan to continue using these alliances."

"We are considering ways to separate the roles of activities in Japan and overseas. We plan to develop new titles primarily in Japan. Overseas companies may be used mostly to develop titles for existing game series with well-established characters and universal themes. Overseas companies will also handle certain parts and/or lineups of such games."

Capcom's in-house developed games have sold very well on the PS3 and XBox360.

Dead Rising: 1.75 million (XBox360)
Resident Evil 5: 5 million (PS3+XBox360)
Street Fighter 4: 3 million (PS3+XBox360)
Lost Planet: 2.3 million (PS3+XBox360)
Devil May Cry 4: 2.5 million (PS3+XBox360)

That doesn't change much, Spyborgs was developed by Bionic games in LA, RE:UC and RE:DSC were developed by Cavia with Capcom, and Dead Rising and RE Zero were made in collaboration with TOSE Software. Either way, the costs and risks involved in these productions were much lower than with HD projects.