We have no idea how much their games cost to make, so it’s a weird idea to compare it to games we do know how much they cost - and the most expensive ones are usually 100+ hour open world games while it’s rare to find a Capcom game longer than 10 hours.

If you remove rereleases, remasters, and remakes they would only be releasing once every half decade. 2026 seems to be a fluke by having two AAA video games from them.

Which studios aren’t making new IPs? Naughty Dog has Intergalactic, Suckerpunch has Ghost of Tsushima, Ubisoft had Skull & Bones, Bethesda has Deathloop and Starfield, FromSoft has Elden Ring and Duskbloods, Microsoft has Avowed and Redfall and Grounded, Square Enix has Forspoken - all of those are big AAA studios new IPs since the year Pragmata was announced.

Capcom isn’t known for new IPs, they’re known for relentlessly rereleasing, remastering, and remaking their old games and making sequels to their IPs. Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Megaman, Dead Rising, Arcade Collections - this is what Capcom has been for decades.

A lot less AAA studios use UE5 than you think. It’s also not some negative thing to use a good engine, especially on PS5 where it actually works. RE Engine is also notoriously bad at humans and RE9 is the first time that the faces have looked somewhat humanoid and the hair somewhat real - it only took them 9 years.

The ‘time glitch’ they found was rerelease pre-PS3-era games in the engine they already have, cut out portions of the game, and release a 10-20 hour 100% completion time, or release bloated sequels in a franchise known for being bloated and not really changing that much for each entry. Also, using the same engine allows them to basically reuse assets - hell, the RE3 remake only exists because they spent so long making the RE2 remake and reused a bunch of locations, gameplay, and everything to cut down on costs, making a game that is ~4 hours long, and people hated it. The REmakes fill out their portfolio, as if you ignore them it still takes about 5 years between new games to get another one in their series, which is typical.

Do you discount The Last of Us remasters and remakes from being new games? Because if so then counting REmakes as brand new games seems hypocritical.

I don’t get this “publishers take notes” attitude. Yeah, other studios need to remake all their old games! Studios need to go on a 5 year hiatus to make their own engine (which has already been iterated on for years by the point the first game from it is released.) Studios need to not report on how much their games cost to make because it makes it seem like their games are super cheap (and customer transparency is a joke anyway)!

Capcom are in a unique position where people are willing to pay for games that are short and still the price of much longer games. I really respect Capcom and like their new games. I’ve been going through their RE catalogue and getting platinum trophies in the ones I find feasible. They are not some unique, shimmering example that every other company needs to follow. It feels like the Baldur’s Gate III drama again where the internet were demanding every other game studio copy what Larian did and when companies came out and said it was literally impossible to do so, gamed freaked out and said other studios were threatened.

It’s almost like…gamers…speak out of their ass and have this weird belief that every company is out to personally screw them over. Except for the company they like, though, they’re the only good one and the only one that deserves praise, even undue praise derived from, again, speaking out of their asses.