Capcom Name-Drops Mega Man, Ace Attorney, Devil May Cry Series for Future Expansion

Capcom has been killing it for many years now, with the majority of its games coming out to critical acclaim and sales success.

It's been focusing on its most popular franchises, like Resident Evil and Monster Hunter, but it sounds as though the Japanese publisher may be turning its attention to some of its series that have been hanging in the background.

In a recent report, which goes over the company's yearly results as well as future strategies, COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto talks about several dormant series, naming Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney directly.

After talking about the success of its aforementioned "core IPs", he says the following about returning to other series in its catalogue:

"Capcom owns a wealth of globally popular brands, such as Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney. We aim to expand our user base and improve our performance through new releases, remakes, and ports of titles in these series to new hardware. By enhancing brand power and cultivating loyal fan bases, we will grow these into core IPs."

Tsujimoto mentions "new releases, remakes, and ports", basically meaning that Capcom's looking to produce more games in these series in the future.

That should be quite exciting news for fans. Devil May Cry has seen the most action with DMC5 (though that debuted back in 2019) and the Netflix animated show, and Ace Attorney has had nearly all of its games ported to modern systems. Mega Man has also found its way to modern platforms via legacy collections.

But the implication here is that there's more to come as Capcom aims to grow them into bigger brands.

There's no telling how long it'll take to see this statement bear fruit, but it's acknowledgement from the publisher that it'll be taking some sort of action with its "smaller" IPs.

These aren't the only Capcom series in that same camp; fans have been calling out for a new Dino Crisis for what feels like an eternity, for example.

Anyway, what do you want to see from Mega Man, Devil May Cry, and Ace Attorney? What other series do you want to see revisited? Tell us in the comments section below.