I think they will keep beeing relevant.
They still have Street Fighter, Monster Hunter, Devil May cry and Resident Evil. Seems like Dead rising 3 didnt do too bad aswell. Dragons dogma was a hit in Japan.
Really, most of the hate on them was blown out of proportion because of DLC and new versions (when in fact new versions are not something that i dislike).
They did have some failures though. The new IP's like Asura's Wrath, remember me and the terrible idea that was giving Lost planet to Spark after LP2 wasnt sucessful.
This gen they do have to work on rebooting/bringing up franchises like Onimusha and Dino Crisis though. Still alot of untapped potencial there. They cant just outsource everything though.
With that said, i think that they should hire Ninja Theory to make DmC 2 for them. I'm sure that without the PR disasters and with the positive experience many people had with the first game, that a new one is assured to be a sucess (though i want them to work on DMC5 internally aswell).







