Following the announcement of its super-positive monetary outcomes, Capcom hosted a Q&A session for traders and analysts, teasing a giant unannounced sport.
In keeping with the transcript offered by Capcom and translated from Japanese by TechRaptor, the Osaka-based writer has an ace up its sleeve.
The corporate has offered, within the first half of the fiscal yr, 22.6 million items of its video video games, however that is solely half of its annual goal of 45 million items.
Requested how the corporate plans to realize its goal, the corporate’s executives answered that they will launch Apollo Justice: Ace Lawyer Trilogy alongside a significant unannounced sport within the second half of the fiscal yr.
Additionally they plan to maintain increasing gross sales of the video games launched within the first half of the fiscal yr, like Avenue Fighter 6.
The unannounced sport was truly teased in two separate solutions. It is price mentioning that Japanese would not make a transparent distinction between plural and singular, so this might be about a number of new video games, albeit the context makes me lean towards one.
There’s additionally a risk that they are speaking about Dragon’s Dogma 2 (about which you’ll be able to learn our preview and interview with the builders from Tokyo Recreation Present). Sometimes, in Japanese company environments, video games that do not have an introduced launch date an outlined merely as “unannounced,” however it’s pretty uncommon.
However, Capcom has been eager, as of late, to launch main video games solely months after their announcement, so getting a giant reveal presumably at The Recreation Awards adopted by a launch by March 31, 2024 (which is when the fiscal yr ends) is fully inside the realm of realism.
Apparently, Capcom has already introduced a Monster Hunter collaboration for season 3 of Exoprimal, which is occurring conveniently within the first quarter of 2024. The truth that they didn’t point out Monster Hunter Rise, however a generic title, prompted some to invest {that a} new sport of the collection is coming quickly.
It is also price mentioning that on March 11, 2024, the collection will have fun its twentieth anniversary. That being mentioned, the executives have been requested explicitly within the Q&A a couple of new sport to have fun the anniversary and so they declined to supply any reply.
Throughout the identical Q&A, Capcom talked about that the PC market continues to develop and the ratio of PC gross sales amongst its clients continues to rise.
Talking of Exoprimal, we additionally be taught that its inclusion in Microsoft’s Recreation Move was the principle issue for a big year-on-year spike in licensing income (from 2.2 billion yen to three.7 billion for the primary half of the fiscal yr).
