Dead Rising had releases in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. It has an entire studio dedicated to the property. That's pretty different.
Both have had multiple releases in recent years, and both have had similar gaps between releases. That was my reason in comparing the two.
Well Basara's missing this FY toothen since we've only got 7 more months.
Maybe they'll transition over to licensing and merch only. I'm sure it'd do well on mobile with the proper handling, pachislot, Asia/browser, etc. There are plenty of avenues for the property to continue outside of traditional consoles where it's failed.
SB3 to 4 saw a similar gap. Like I said I think it's premature to declare anything about the series future. SB relies heavily on asset reuse, and the amount of ground-up content per release is relatively small. It's possible SB5 wouldn't be a generational leap like SB3 or SB4, so costs wouldn't balloon like with those.
We'll see. If there's nothing announced by the end of next year, then I'll question the series' future.
500k below targets that were already a huge decrease from 5/6. They've done only 200k so far this FY and they want 2m. RE7 has a different scope and focus yes but it's tough to really see this as a net positive, it's just not appearing to have the viral LP growth cycle Capcom planned for.
RE5's target was 2.3m.
They're radio silent on RE too. We've seen nothing from RE2 Remake since announcement (even if development didn't start until after the announcement, it's been too long), and the RE7 Not A Hero free DLC is overdue.
I think the earlier comments about AAA Desire without AAA effort/products is pretty accurate. There's other issues too, like how even a niche series like Ace Attorney shouldn't have 3 titles missing localization. Plus there's been more than one occasion (EX Troopers, possibly the Great Ace Attorney spinoffs) where the games were developed without international releases in mind and thus became economically impossible to localize.
RE2make is a special case, and they've talked about it a few times since the announcement. Capcom doesn't reveal titles before they're less than a year away from release (except SFV but that was a special case because of online betas), so unless RE2make is their late 2018 title we're a while off still. Not A Hero was at least officially delayed. Similarly, they mentioned before the announcement we would see RE7 soon, hence my comment.
All of those were spin-offs though, and in the cases of DGS there might be legal reasons or potential ones (which would be enough for something like DGS) hindering localizations.
