They needed Sony to help fund their biggest francise. In what reality does a new Darkstalkers have any chance of coming to fruition after that failed under those circumstances when it wasn't revived last gen when they were indemendany and SF4 singlehandedly revived the fighting genre with its success?

We could have had Darkstalkers 4 if Capcom wouldnt have spent all the money on uselss Franchises which they dont own the IPs for like Marvel vs Capcom. There is always the possibility in the future if Capcoms finances are in check, they obviously wouldnt make a new Marvel Game because they should know by now that this Franchise is a waste of Money.

And street fighter also seems to have peaked with the interests of gamers

yes pls

check out Darkstalker Ressurection for PS360 by the way :)

MvC was always the better selling, more desired franchise though. The opposite of useless. It wasn't a waste of money, but they don't have the right's to it anymore. If they could reaquire the rights to MvC, they'd do it in a milisecond, but Disney has made their decision. You'll see another Capcom vs. game well before you see another Darkstalkers game though. Just won't be with Marvel. Likely Nintendo since that would do just as well, if not better than MvC.

It did. Than it sold poorly.

Now this isn't to say that I don't want another Darkstalkers. I've never played it, but it looks awesome and I'd love to play a new one. Just that if so few people bought the newest entry in the mascot of fighting games, a tiny fraction of those people would buy a new Darkstalkers, and Capcom will clearly not be in the position to do that kind of charity for a very long time after SFV. They'll only be making safe moves.

Think i should go find and buy Darkstalkers 3.

QUAKECore89 said: Think i should go find and buy Darkstalkers 3.

you can get the japanese Darkstalker Resseruction for PS3 which is the best version and its physical

Ruler said: QUAKECore89 said: Think i should go find and buy Darkstalkers 3. you can get the japanese Darkstalker Resseruction for PS3 which is the best version and its physical

Oh that's odd, guess i'll import it then. Thanks for letting me know!

MvsC was considered a save move because of its American Mass Market appeal with Marvel IP but look what happened with it now. It bombed, it probably is outsold by TekkenxStreetfighter by now. It cost them 100s of Millions to devolope and marketing this game and they cant even sell it now dueto Disneys expensive lincences, same with Marvel vs Capcom 2 which was avaible as HD remaster.

If they would have chosen Darkstalkers 4 it wouldnt have sold alot @day 1 but over time with Digital Sales and Retail restocks as well as DLC and ports to PC, PS4 and X1 it would have sold just as much if not even more than Marvel over time.

Its exactley these ''Save Bets'' mentallity that drove capcom down where there are now because these Western markets are nothing but save for a japanese company, look at the SFV hate-tirade. Or crying and bitching about Resident Evil if its supposed to be scarry or not.

According to VGC, vanilla MvC3 on the 360, aka the worse selling vanilla version of that game, sold over 50% more by itself than literally every Darkstalkers game to have ever come out, including rereleases, put together. Ultimate MvC on the Vita sold almost half of the entire Darkstalkers franchise put together. Let's not talk about games bombing. Darkstalkers 4 wouldn't have come even remotely close to passing MvC3.

I'm not arguing what is or is not good for gamers. I'm arguing what's realistic to expect of Capcom. Darkstalkers is a financial failure of a franchise. Capcom isn't going to waste money on a sequel when they couldn't even get SFV to be a success. Not for a very long time.