And, of course, their biggest success this generation, and on road to being their biggest success ever, is Monster Hunter World, which has won fans over worldwide. After years of ignoring their former mascot Mega Man, Capcom announced a brand new entry in the series, due this year, as well as multiple collections of his previous outings to celebrate his past.

Resident Evil fans got Resident Evil 7, widely acclaimed as a return to form for the franchise Street Fighter 5 had a very disappointing launch, but Capcom has since turned it around and made it an enviable fighting game, best exemplified by the recent relaunch under the ‘Arcade Edition’ brand.

Look at Capcom- after multiple games that ended up alienating their fans, they’ve been releasing quality products that have been winning those very same fans over. There is little wonder so many proclaimed Japan to be a spent force, inasmuch as console game development goes.īut the last few years have seen the country roaring back to prominence in console gaming, thanks in part to the market domination of PlayStation and Nintendo, and seen major Japanese third parties begin to make inroads with disillusioned fans again.

The previous generation was a rough one for Japanese third party publishers faced with the triple onslaught of an en masse migration of Japanese audiences mobile devices, the struggles of HD development, and the rise of western development for consoles, Japanese developers found themselves hopelessly outmatched as they tried to keep up, ultimately mostly disappointing long time fans due to misguided games and entries in long running series that were made with some attempt to appeal to a larger, global audience.Īfter all, last generation was the generation we got Final Fantasy 13, Resident Evil 6, and the 2006 reboot of Sonic the Hedgehog it was the generation that Castlevania was farmed out to a western developer as a hack and slash that bore little resemblance to the original games, and Silent Hill was used as a license for a Diablo style co-op loot game.

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