Capcom Wants to Release Resident Evil Games Every Year with Even More Remakes
Masachika Kawata said remakes help fund new mainline entries and new IP, while Capcom keeps spin-offs off its priority list.
- Capcom aims to release a new Resident Evil title every year by alternating between mainline entries and remakes, according to producer Masachika Kawata. This strategy prioritizes core development over spinoff titles.
- Remakes are "just as important as the mainline titles," Kawata stated, providing financial resources for new intellectual properties like Pragmata. Producing annual mainline entries would be "a difficult task" without this cycle.
- Following 2026's Resident Evil Requiem, Capcom confirmed Resident Evil Veronica will launch in 2027. If the annual cadence continues, rumored remakes of Resident Evil Zero and Resident Evil 1 could follow in 2028 and 2029.
- While spinoffs remain unlikely, Capcom is developing story DLC for Resident Evil Requiem and Resident Evil Veronica, arriving in late 2027 and 2028. Insider Dusk Golem noted these releases arrive "over a year" after the base games launch.
- Despite the aggressive schedule, Kawata clarified that Capcom does not guarantee a new game every single year. Production timelines beyond the rumored 2029 remakes remain unconfirmed as the team focuses on current projects.
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Capcom Wants to Release a New Resident Evil Game Every Year
Capcom has opened up about its future plans for the Resident Evil franchise following the release of RE9 Requiem. According to the Japanese publisher, the company wants to release a new Resident Evil game every year through a combination of remakes and new mainline entries. More Resident Evil Remakes Are Coming Back in March, there […] The post Capcom Wants to Release a New Resident Evil Game Every Year appeared first on VICE.
Capcom: The Resident Evil remakes helps us create "completely new IP like Pragmata"
Even though remakes make up a large part of Capcom's line-up today, virtually no one is complaining, despite the fact gamers usually prefer new titles. Of course, it helps that the games Capcom is breathing new life into are 20-30 years old and absolutely fantastic, but they also serve another important purpose for the Japanese giant. Producer Masachika Kawata stated in an interview with Game Informer Magazine (thanks Nintendo Everything) that …
News extracted from HD Technology. Visit www.hd-tecnologia.com for the latest news. Capcom wants to keep Resident Evil as an annual presence within its release schedule. Since its debut in 1996, the saga has never spent more than two years without receiving a new game, DLC, remake or updated version. Now, the company seeks to sustain that rhythm because recent titles helped create a very strong new stage for the franchise. The idea was explained…
While Resident Evil has already benefited from a sustained release schedule for ten years, Capcom announces its intention to annualize the franchise with a technique ensuring both quantity and quality.
With the new editions of Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 4, Capcom has returned some of the most well-known parts of its horror series. More remakes are to follow and for the publisher they are by no means just fillers between the new main parts. Producer Masachika Kawata explains in a recent interview that Capcom puts the elaborately produced reinterpretations on a level with completely new resident Evil games. At the same ti…
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