Ah, publisher surveys. You gotta love ’em. Sometimes they’ll press certain companies into reviving age-old properties, and what better company to dig up old chestnuts than Capcom.
The latest survey comes by way of the Japanese site Capcom Town, which is currently hosting a “super election” with 10 simple questions to answer. There are nominal rewards involved for reaching certain participation milestones, but the rule rub lies within the content of the questions themselves.
Let’s take a look at what could be cooking at Capcom in the next decade or so.
Capcom yet again asks fans about the viability of reviving old IP
Once you register, you’ll gain access to the survey. To sate your curiosity, here are all of the questions:
Notably, as part of question five, the options include:
As is the case with Capcom at any given moment, several of these franchises have gotten a few refreshes over the years (evenGhosts ‘n Goblins), and some of them are currently undergoing a lengthy hiatus. But the ones that stick out like a sore thumb includeOnimusha(which hasn’t gotten a mainline title since 2006, but did see a remaster in 2018, and an anime in 2023), andDino Crisis: which has been as dead as a dinosaur since 2003 (some would say even before that).
This isF-Zero-leveldormancy here (granted, that one at least got a snazzy “99” battle royale spinoff). Maybe one day some of these forgotten stories will be retold.Hey Capcom, where’s theAsura’s Wrathoption?
