Examiner
Capcom just released their company's annual report and in it were details on what the future will hold for Capcom and what methods they will take moving forward.
According to the report, Capcom's President and COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto said they would be investing about twenty percent of their overall development budget into next-generation products.
Tsujimoto said the company releases new installments for popular series every two to three years in order to maintain interest in the series and still create large amounts of revenue off of them.
"We launch sales of popular series titles held by the Company approximately every 2.5 years. This is because the development of a single major title usually requires 3-4 years; in the event that there are few hits, it will be difficult to create a series title every year and earnings will be adversely impacted.
"For this reason, it is important either to maintain a large number of popular titles or shorten the sales cycle to ensure stable earnings.
"Among the multitude of major titles held by Capcom - such as Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Lost Planet, Dead Rising and many others - we will promote shortening of the sales cycle in pursuit of further earnings stabilization and growth," Tsujimoto said.
Not sure that yearly releases affect sales too much because you can look at franchises like Call of Duty and clearly see that despite the yearly installments, they still generate a great deal of revenue.
It's interesting, yet refreshing though to hear that a company still attempts to maintain the novelty of their products instead of releasing one after the other like a lot of companies do.
http://www.examiner.com/article/capcom-committing-twenty-percent-of-dev-budget-to-xbox-720-ps4-and-wii-u-games
