IGN lately reported that Resident Evil sequence producer Jun Takeuchi commented that Capcom’s survival horror sequence’ story may finish in the subsequent 10 years. Nonetheless, this doesn’t imply that Capcom plans to cease making Resident Evil video games in the subsequent decade.
As Takeuchi advised 47 News (picked up by Yahoo Japan) in a current interview, “With the discharge of Requiem this yr, I really feel like the primary 10 years have reached the top of a chapter, so I feel the conclusion will come in the next 10 years.”
This quote set information shops and followers questioning if Capcom plans to wind up its well-liked franchise by 2036. Nonetheless, what Takeuchi is particularly referring to right here is the corporate’s 10-year branding idea for the survival horror franchise. This imaginative and prescient kicked off with the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2, which Takeuchi refers to in the earlier paragraph, and concerned a lot mulling over how to cope with Resident Evil’s overarching story.
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“The sequence’ story wasn’t all deliberate out from the start, it expanded with every new launch,” Takeuchi mentioned. “Once we had been planning the Resident Evil 2 remake and developing with the 10-year branding idea, this (the story) was what we puzzled over. For those who play via all of those video games, I feel you will work out the that means behind the order of the remakes.”
Subsequently, the ‘first 10 years’ Takeuchi is referring to is the last decade of this branding idea. This era noticed the discharge of the Resident Evil 2, 3 and 4 remakes, plus Village and Requiem. One other remake, Resident Evil Veronica, is due out subsequent yr. It’s this overarching, mainline story that Takeuchi feels will wrap up in the upcoming decade (i.e. ‘the next 10 years’).
Takeuchi’s imaginative and prescient for the subsequent decade of Resident Evil will embrace each remakes and new titles. Nonetheless, when requested what number of contemporary Resi titles shall be launched earlier than 2036, Takeuchi failed to spill the small print but did say we will anticipate a number of video games.
Resident Evil is one in every of Capcom’s high multimedia franchises (with the corporate’s newest financial report highlighting robust ongoing gross sales). If this momentum continues, Capcom will doubtless nonetheless produce other Resident Evil releases on the zombie-infested horizon in 2036 and past. Even when the principle story concludes, there’s loads of potential for video games and flicks to timeline-hop or delve into new settings. Capcom may additionally meet up with beloved characters like Jill Valentine or Rebecca Chambers.
Resident Evil Requiem producer Masato Kumazawa mused earlier this yr that the sequence may at some point get a sport set in Japan (a location that has solely ever appeared in the official manga spin-off Biohazard Heavenly Island). “Although Japan hasn’t appeared as a setting for the video games but, I feel it would in some unspecified time in the future in the long run.” he mentioned, including: “There are nonetheless many issues we would like to do.”