r/videogames • u/Creepy_Ad5124 • 4h ago
News / Trailers / Articles Capcom has somehow managed to release 4 absolute bangers in a single year
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u/Magnon 4h ago
Half the AAA companies decided they weren't gonna release anything for 5+ years so Capcom decided "Fine, ill do it myself."
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u/NotItemName 4h ago
All these games took 5+ years to develop, you can't compare dev team with around 300 people with publisher Capcom with around 4000 people
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u/Sure-Nebula7909 4h ago
Ubi:?
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u/NotItemName 4h ago
Is Ubisoft a "half the AAA companies"?
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u/Sure-Nebula7909 4h ago
You literally put the least important studio to the top of those big triple a company. Where's Activision, where's blizzard, where's EA? where's t2, hell even Nintendo can't compare the amount of Capcom this year
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u/NotItemName 3h ago
You literally put the least important studio to the top of those big triple a compan
You put Ubisoft first
can't compare the amount of Capcom this year
We can't really compare just by one year. If you for example compare Bethesda as a publisher with Capcom, for example, output within ~10 years is pretty much the same(Bethesda released a couple of games less with less employees across all the studios under them) I am pretty sure you will find similar number across most of the big publishers
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u/Sure-Nebula7909 3h ago
Bethesda has many studios while Capcom set their staffs as multiple divisions, besides Bethesda now is under Xbox, Xbox literally released 12 games last year and no one compared ghost of yotei. amount mean nothing
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u/NotItemName 3h ago
Capcom have multiple studios, they just don't have a name, devs that works on Resident Evil don't work on Pragmata or Monster Hunter
My original comment was regarding 5+ years development cycle, and that Capcom can release a lot of games because it is a big publisher not a single dev team
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u/Sure-Nebula7909 3h ago
Not so strictly, resident evil team could not be involved but sf6 team literally involved into mhwilds development
And as you can see onimusha wots used some materials from mhwilds, these game now both used re engines mean it is highly versatile to each program
The end, Capcom really has big number on staff but not mean they are too strong, Sega literally has Persona 6 and 4 revival, virtual fighter 6 and stranger than heaven, total war warhammer and alien isolation 2 and crazy taxi in 2027 hell not even consider rumor Sonic 2d game
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u/TheGoodIdiot 4h ago
Well when you’re releasing 4 games and a major dlc, with another 2 games and another major dlc (maybe two) next year that’s still 8-9 projects split between 3,300 people. They are still only the 18th largest video game company by employee count but they are clearly the best in the world right now to me.
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u/WorldPhysical7646 4h ago
Some AAA companies have same amount of resources and devs it is just shitty moderation that wastes these resources and the talents
Ubisoft got more than 10k employees btw or someshit and look at how poor their output is
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u/MashedMosha 1h ago
EXACTLY, the quality, quantity, AND consistency. They've been hitting the trifecta every year since 2017, almost 10 years ago, crazy.
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u/Alucard-VS-Artorias 4h ago
Capcom is on a good hot streak right now. Since RE7 they have been doing better every year.
I'm hope sometime next year they announce plans for a return to long dormant franchises such as Ōkami, Darkstalkers, Breath of Fire, and Lost Planet.
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u/ByRWBadger 3h ago
So far it looks like 2027 is going to be a more relaxed year for them, and well deserved. Tifa is going to make then plenty of cash while megaman and code Veronica make up the bulk of their year
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u/eaxis 3h ago
Monster Hunter Wilds ascension is Next year Bro
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u/ByRWBadger 3h ago
Oh man, that too, though that’s still less of a crazy year than 2026 was.
They have 2 movies coming out in the next 8 weeks!
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u/Due_Teaching_6974 2h ago
I highly doubt that it's even their whole lineup, they definitely have something aside from Megaman, Veronica and Ascendance for 2027 that they havent revealed yet
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u/ByRWBadger 2h ago
I would guess a Pragmata story DLC, Capcom fighting collection 3, or something DMC related but not a full release
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u/GoldunGote 44m ago
Turns out, paying attention to, and putting money into your beloved IPs pays off! *coughs in wishing Konami would give a fuck* yes I know Belmont's Curse is coming out and it does look good.. if its good that'll be fun.. but it's gonna suck waiting another 3-10 years for them to make another castlevania game.
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u/ThroughTheIris56 36m ago
They announced an Okami sequel a while ago which I'll be very interested to see.
Would also love new Devil May Cry and Dino Crisis games.
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u/Duxtrous 4h ago
Capcom has been on a generational run ever since resident evil 7/ Monster Hunter World tbh.
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u/Due_Teaching_6974 4h ago
Dont forget Dragons Dogma 2 Dark Arisen DLC which is coming later this year that aims to fix everything about the game, we might have Cyberpunk 2.0 moment here
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u/FrostyPace1464 4h ago
dragons dogma wasn’t as bad as c2077 lol
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u/Due_Teaching_6974 3h ago
of course it wasnt but it was clear so much was cut from the game, they spent 2 whole years making just the DLC alone so I am sure it's going to be even bigger than Phantom Liberty in size
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u/TrustyPeaches 4h ago
Im a bit dubious that it’ll fix everything lol.
I feel like dragons dogma 2 was already the opportunity to fix everything about dragons dogma one that they squandered
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u/Due_Teaching_6974 2h ago edited 2h ago
I feel you, but you have to remind yourself that they spent almost 3 whole years developing the DLC for this game
it is going to be massive considering Dragons Dogma 2 was also used to prototype Monster Hunter Wild's open world in the RE Engine and a lot of time was spent to meet the games open world demand
now that they don't have to worry about upgrading the engine they should've added back everything that cut from game in those 3 years
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u/TrustyPeaches 2h ago
Maybe, I haven’t been following it closely enough to tell how much content they’re adding in.
All I’ve seen is the new map which seemed modest enough
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u/iChieftain22 4h ago
Living proof that gamers still care about singleplayer games, and that they can absolutely be profitable when they’re done right!
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u/xtweeter22x Nintendo 1h ago
“Somehow”?
They just like making money; and they know the best way how is to publish top-quality games with unique settings and ideas.
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u/Top1RedDead2Hater 4h ago
Can't wait to play Pragmata / Onimusha / RE9 someday, played demo of 2 first and really loved it, I also loved RE7 / like 8 and from previews I should like 9 too, they release too many good games but they are too costly.
Love the Monster Hunter, but the stories doesn't gripe me, all of them are turn based JRPGs right?
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u/Diseased_Wombat 4h ago
Only the Monster Hunter Stories spin-off series is turn-based. The mainline Monster Hunter Games (all of the numbered entries, World, Rise, and Wilds) are basically boss rushes. You fight a monster like you would fight a boss in Dark Souls, but both you and the monster are more mobile than in Dark Souls. I’m not awake enough to explain this properly haha. You get the idea, right?
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u/Top1RedDead2Hater 4h ago
Oh yeah I only played the Rise / World so far and tried Wilds demo, I was purely talking about Stories. I think Steam only has MH Stories 1-3 and Rise / World / Wilds
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u/_has-been_ 3h ago
And don’t forget Street Fighter 6 is the best fighting game this era. And one of the best ever.
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u/Peeka789 4h ago
Im not a fan of 3/4 of these games, but im glad some companies are committed to delivering consistent, non-cynically made, single-player games.
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u/SpyroManiac36 3h ago
Solid but nothing breaks the 90+ score
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u/IdleSitting 1h ago
That's still pretty good, but I'm also the type of person who's fine with a 60-70 score on a game
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u/Kasta4 4h ago
Now they just need to figure out how to optimize their mainline Monster Hunter titles.
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u/Creepy_Ad5124 4h ago
Yeah its a shame about that, All their other games are like some of the best optimization in all of gaming, so Idk why Monster Hunter runs like shit
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u/Kasta4 4h ago
They just bit off more than they could chew with applying the RE Engine to an "open world" setting. Monster Hunter Wilds' performance is a lot better than it was at launch thanks to their efforts but I really hope they learn their lesson for the next release because it killed a lot of hype for the game.
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u/Diseased_Wombat 4h ago
The next release is 100% going to run better at launch. The portable series games (which is what the next one is gonna be) tend to focus less on the environment and scale, and more on the combat. They usually have much more wild monster designs and MUCH more difficult fights.
I mean, look at World and Rise. World was a main series game and it focused on the immersive experience of hunting and portraying the monsters as animals. Rise, on the other hand, was much more similar to old-gen games and revolutionized the combat with Wirebugs, making hunters faster and flashier than ever before
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u/FrostyPace1464 4h ago
I played mh wilds day 1 on ps5. Completely fine!
You must mean PC.
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u/DegenerateCrocodile 4h ago
It was not “completely fine” on PS5 at launch. Hell, it still needs some more work to this day.
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u/Organic_Manner6847 4h ago
Company has 300+ people per game, they are using as many people for a single game as other studios have IN TOTAL.
So I am actually not that surprised. It makes me more or less wonder why other studios can't do the same even though they also often have 1k people working for them.
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u/TheDudeBeto 2h ago
A core team of 300 is actually on the lower end for modern AAA development. Major titles like God of War, The Last of Us, and Spider-Man often employ 400 to 600 core developers, while massive projects like GTA, Cyberpunk 2077, and Assassin's Creed can scale to over 1,000. Considering this scale, Capcom's team efficiency is impressive.
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u/Organic_Manner6847 39m ago
Dude, Santa Monica Studio behind GOW has roughly 300-400 employees. That alone tells me you don't know anything about the actual numbers.
As for last of us, they credited 1336 people in the first game and 2169 in the sequel.
You also list studios which often work on a single game at the same time. Insomniac (Spiderman) worked just on that game, Rockstar and CD Projekt do the same.
Not to mention that more people doesn't mean better games. I know, stereotype "bigger number = better" but that's BS. And Capcom proofs that, they work on 6-8 games per year at the same time while ressourcing their team members, resulting in games often having just 300 people working at them while others work on other stuff. Take a guess why they could work on RE7 and 8 at the same time while also working on DMC5, Monster Hunter, Umbrella Corps, Revalations 2, RE2r and SF5.
Show me ANY of your mentioned studios which were able to do the same.
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u/Wratheo 4h ago
Capcom has consistently been one of the best developers since the NES. They had a little speed wobble toward the end of the PS3/360 and Xbox One/PS4. Easily the greatest videogame developer of all time.