This idea is obviously not gonna happen but anything is possible so ima share it 

Capcom should essentially make three different modes in Resident Evil 8, making a VR mode, a non-vr standard fps mode, and a third person mode. The VR mode will be sweet and satisfy the VR crowd, the standard fps mode makes it appeal to perhaps an fps Resident Evil market or some shit and the third person mode appeals to the dudes who hate first person view and prefer third person Resident Evil. All while making a horror game, but more high octane and actiony at the same time so you appeal to every resident evil fan 

Short version:

- VR mode 

- Standard FPS mode

- Third person mode

- Horror and action at the same time

How about a RE 1-CV mode where it actually plays like Resident Evil again?

Why? Didn't RE7 work fine as a VR title through and through? Why make a separate mode?

to make more money and appeal to pretty much everyone 

But what's the difference between that and RE7? You have a VR mode and a none VR mode in RE7 right?

I honestly thought OP was going to say that your idea is to "not make one and bury the franchise " lol

I like your idea but it's not feasible from a development point of view. Plus the games are tailored for an experience of how they want you to feel. Resident Evil has evolved many times over the years and it will surely evolve many more times over the decades.

The numbered titles are always largely experimental and takes big risks where the Revelation titles appeal more to the fans. There's also HD ports of the classics, of course that doesn't really fill the appetite for new games of the older styles. As a huge Resident Evil fan myself, I feel the most important thing for Capcom to do is focus on the story a bit more. That was my number one complaint of RE7. It had a fantastic story but the series has so many ongoing and unresolved plot threads that we didn't need a new one, yet alone one that hardly connected to the main canon. Though that's hardly fair to say since that rival company/Tentsu could very well factor into the series. Maybe even one of the organizations that Ada had dealings with.

Since they changed gameplay on 4 and 5, and then again on 6 (it honestly plays like call of duty + devil may cry, lol), and now with 7, I'd actually like them to just come back to the older style. And this comes from someone who loved both 4 and 5 and will probably enjoy 7 as well.