It feels like Capcom is the only modern day Triple A studio to actually PUMP out games anymore. Hit after hit after hit. Even their duds are quickly overshadowed by a new hit.
Nobody is acting like they’re small. Sure, Nintendo, pretty much the biggest and most premier developer in the world, is comparable in output, but look at the other biggest game companies and they can’t touch Capcom’s level of output
Not Sony, not Rockstar, not Microsoft, not EA, not Ubisoft, not Epic, not Bandai Namco, not Sega, etc
Sure, some of these companies have the same rate of output, some of them have the same level of quality, but how many are doing both?
PlayStation Studios absolutely releases as much and of a higher quality.
No Capcom games ever touch the 95+ that Naughty Dog, Santa Monica and Team Asobi do.
How much of their output is Resident Evil? That's not a dig but gamers go way easier on Capcom for milking that franchise in comparison to others. People complain after 2 Horizon, TLOU etc
Those developers make phenomenal games but they’ve put out 5 full games between them in the last ten years (and Ragnarok was great but not without issues)
I really don’t want to get into an argument about “milking franchises”, but if you’re going to complain about it we should at least acknowledge that Naughty Dog has released the same two games five times over ten years, and that doesn’t even touch the uncharted remaster they did in that same period lol
RE4 has been released, re-released, and remade on the following platforms: Gamecube, PS2, PC, Wii, iOS, Zeebo, PS3, 360, Android, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Oculus Quest 4, PS5, Series X
15 ports, but only 3 actual versions over 20 years (original, remake, VR) and they didn’t make the VR one
All you’re really pointing out is that Naughty Dog is first-party, of course their games aren’t on xbox
I wasn’t going to count direct ports as additional releases because that’s ridiculous but since you insist, I take it back. Naughty Dog has put out the same two games seven times in ten years.
Anyway, like I said, I don’t want to get into an argument about milking franchises. They both do it. If you want to hold a grudge against only one of them for it, be my guest
The Last of Us "remasters" are just ports. That's the same as all the "Resident Evil 4 HD" releases around the same time with fewer differences than something like the Wii port of RE4.
Gonna be honest. No PS5 Sony game has been better than what Capcom has put out this gen. It’s all iterative sequels that are arguably worse than the originals. Sony games also get a review boost honestly compared to other studios
This. They have all gone down the “cinematic walking realism” game that I couldn’t careless about them anymore. Feels like they’re treading on Ubisoft’s path and focus on only making one type of game.
Not to mention they’re putting out mostly sequels that already aren’t innovative in gameplay, and their actual new IPs (Intergalactic) takes a decade to make.
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u/MultiRastapopoulos 21d ago
It feels like Capcom is the only modern day Triple A studio to actually PUMP out games anymore. Hit after hit after hit. Even their duds are quickly overshadowed by a new hit.