Today on Headline
RePLAY: Survival-horror is a hard sell, Square-Enix teases a mystery title and Blizzard
has mapped out multiple World of Warcraft
expansions post-Mists of Pandaria.
Survival-horror Resident Evil just doesn’t sell as it
used to, says Resident Evil: Revelations
producer Masachika Kawata.
“Especially for the
North American market, I think the series needs to head in that
[action-oriented] direction,” Kawata told Gamasutra in an interview. “[Resident Evil’s primary games] need to
be an extension of the changes made in Resident
Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5.”
“Looking at the
marketing data [for survival horror games]… the market is small, compared to
the number of units Call of Duty and
all those action games sell,” Kawata elaborated. “‘A ‘survival horror’ Resident Evil doesn’t seem like it’d be
able to sell those kind of numbers.”
Despite that, Kawata
points out that there are opportunities for Capcom to explore survival-horror
gameplay outside the series. “So we have our numbered series, and we can say we
have a more adventure-oriented version, like a Revelations-style game. And we also have Operation Raccoon City, which is a third-person shooter.
“So I think that by
extending the market in this sense, we can still have the numbered titles keep
their identity about what Resident Evil
is supposed to be, but still expand and hit other markets as well.”
*Source: Gamasutra
A “secret” Square-Enix
title that is slated for release this summer has been revealed in the form of a
trailer.
The trailer features
illustrations by Castlevania veteran
Masaki Hirooka and Square-Enix artist Yusuke Naora. The art on the trailer
includes fantastical creatures, fantasy-themed characters and what looks like a
battle.
According to
Andriasang, a number of Final Fantasy-themed
keywords are scattered across the trailer like crystal and summons (i.e. Odin
and Diablos).
*Source: Andriasang
World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, is not even released yet and Blizzard is already
working on its next expansion and has plans for multiple ones after that!
“I got the pitch from
Chris Metzen of what they plan for 6.0 and I’m pretty geeked up about it. They
already know what they're going to be doing for multiple expansions ahead,” Blizzard
COO Paul Sams told CVG, confirming the MMO’s fifth entry.
“They have an idea - a
general framework,” said Sams. “They’re these lore creators. They’re the ones
who drive what the world looks like today and what it’ll be like tomorrow and
beyond.”
*Source: CVG
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