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GoOnKid on 30 October 2017
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Darwinianevolution said:
GoOnKid said:

True. I was actually quite surprised that Konami made a launch title for the Switch, and a quite fitting one, even. Konami! Now they seem to be interested in reviving more dead franchises, so Nintendo likely has hit some sweet spots.

I still haven't given up on Capcom, though. I know they make extraordinary dumb moves but I still believe they're going to make some exclusive games for the Switch.

Right now, I think Capcom is in a pretty confusing spot. Two of their biggest franchises released with lackluster numbers (SFV and specially MvC Inf), they can't milk RE with as much speed as they would want to (making a RE7 caliber game is long and takes resources), and the console that housed their main cash cow is being quickly replaced, so even the Monster Hunter series is in uncertain grounds. They could've gone all out on the Switch the way Bethesda or even Konami did. Bring an old classic people were still excited for (bring that Monster Hunter Switch to everyone, and RE7 can fit on the Switch the same way Doom fits on the Switch, or even just RE4 again) or make a low budget, low risk revival of an old franchise (Darkstalkers or even MEGAMAN?!). Why they didn't do this when it seems like the safest thing to do is beyond me, and I'm pretty confident there are things we don't know going on behind the curtains.

Everything you say is true. Capcom definitely needs to discover new flows of cash, it seems. If I really wanted to give them a small benefit of the doubt I could say that it's uncertain when exactly Nintendo invited them in on the Switch's construction, so they may indeed not have had all that time in the world to make new games. And as you've said yourself: big games need time and resources, and I'm guessing they are already working on more big games for PS and Xbox, so their mapower is somewhere else. That's why they need that long to make a warmed-up Street Fighter, an upscaled MH and a collection consisting of two games.

I really hope a Megaman game will come. A good one. I soooooo hope for that! Now this is really mindblowing why they don't make one when so many Switch games hit so hard on nostalgia these days! Capcom, wake up, ffs!

After playing and enjoying Project X Zone 2 recently I got interested in Darkstalkers a lot, actually, since some characters appear there. I would probably buy a copy.

I would also wish for a new Phoenix Wright game, but that's depended on the creator/writer (his name is Shu Takumi, I think). He needs to be in the mood to write a new one, otherwise it will be shoehorned. I also believe that a game like Dead Rising would work well on the Switch.