Capcom’s already released a handful of big titles this year between the likes of Resident Evil 4’s remake, Street Fighter 6 and Exoprimal, but it seems they aren’t done yet.
During the Q&A portion of their quarterly earnings report, the company confirmed they’ve got another “unannounced major title” planned to launch sometime before April 2024.
“In the second half of this financial year, we plan to release Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy in January in addition to a currently unannounced major title,” Capcom told its investors. “Moreover, we plan to boost the sales figures of new titles of the first half of this financial year, like Street Fighter 6, to achieve the target.”
Interestingly, this is now the second time we’ve heard of a big unknown game coming out of Capcom since their last earnings call in July mentioned it too as a title they’re expecting to sell millions of copies.
So that leaves us with two big questions as to what it is and when the game will be revealed?
As for the chances of this being a fighting game, let’s take a closer look.
Considering we just got SF6 this year and the Capcom Fighting Collection last, those are almost assuredly out the window.
That would pretty much leave Marvel vs. Capcom or another Versus style game as the only feasible option.
You may think that sounds wild, but remember back to seven years ago.
Capcom announced Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite in December 2016, which was just around 10 months after the release of Street Fighter 5, and released less than a year later.
We’re also now as far away from the launch of Marvel Infinite than that game was from Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
There’s more reasons as to why we feel now would be a good time to take MvC for another spin, which you can find in the video below, but obviously that’s not the only option for the company.
Admittedly, I still believe we’re more likely to see a new Marvel vs. Capcom classic collection before a brand new entry, which could also work with such a quick turnaround, though not sure Capcom would have as much faith in that selling millions and millions of copies by itself.
Stepping outside of fighting games, Monster Hunter is looking like the most likely candidate overall considering Rise first launched over two and a half years ago while being their second best selling game of all time behind Monster Hunter World.
We’re not sure launching another Resident Evil title within a year of the last one would be the best move, so that also leaves Devil May Cry and Mega Man up there in the probable options too.
The last mainline title for the blue bomber Mega Man 11 came all the way back in 2018, so he seems pretty due for something besides collections at this point.
As for where Capcom will reveal this game, there is technically the Paris Games Week going down this Wednesday, November 1, to Sunday, November 5, though we’re not putting too much stock in that yet.
Instead, we’re looking more towards The Game Awards 2023 coming on December 7 where we’ll all be keenly watching to see what Street Fighter 6 gets nominated for soon.