In 2013, it was reported that Capcom only had $152 million dollars. To put that into perspective, the budget of Grand Theft Auto IV was $100 million. Everyone was talking about how Capcom would be bought out, or have their I.P.s sold. Thank goodness, Monster Hunter printed Capcom enough money to get back on their feet.

"they are doing what people want" is what makes Capcom CapGod: series like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Devil May Cry are phenomenal

That first Resident Evil 7 trailer, where people have no idea what it's supposed to be until the title was shown at the end, still one of the best game reveals ever.

I _really_ hope Capcom’s success brings back Mega Man Legends 3, more MvC games, as well as a reboot of Darkstalkers, Rival Schools, Dino Crisis Remake…etc

If they aren’t already there, they’re absolutely on that path. Devil May Cry 5 is what won me over, it made me feel like Capcom was back.

I feel like the moment Capcom started to truly come back was with RE7, it just took a while for that good fortune to finally come to the fighting game team.

Shoutout to the _Monster Hunter_ dev team for consistently pulling out bangers despite how niche they were for a long time until _World_ and _Rise._ It always feels great when karma hits in the best possible way.

Playing through Monster Hunter World still remains one of the most magical video game experiences I have ever had in my life

Honestly I think the RE Engine is behind a lot of the success. It's flexible, it runs nicely on most PCs, it allows high fidelity without blowing up your GPU, it's doing work!

Funny thing is that Monster Hunter was totally fine during this entire period

Stories like this make Capcom such an awesome and inspiring company. When faced against dire situations, they always manage to make a comeback.

They got massively humbled around the time of DmC. They were so high on their own success that they became terrible, but their company almost tanking woke them up. SFV coasted them along during their lull in activity, and then with the release of RE7. After that they found their footing, and became their old selves

I think an important thing to keep in mind with products is that dev cycles for a project generally tend to be like a minimum 3 years from initial planning to final product. A new entry in an existing pipeline? You might be able to push it out in like 1~2 years, but anything new or decently sized is going to take like 3~5. Inafune basically got promoted to corporate management in 2006. Shit started hitting the fan about 2~3 years later and got increasingly worse. Even after he left in 2010, the last few projects he’d started up would have still been chugging along. Kind of how like Konami still pushed Metal Gear Survive after Kojima got kicked out. Any course correction that occurred within Capcom would have needed to happen AFTER Inafune’s last few projects wrapped up. And the efforts of any of said course correction would likely have taken about 5-ish years to bear fruit if at all. So we’re talking a time frame of about 5~10 years minimum after Inafune left the company in order for Capcom to get into shape. And it just so happens that RE7, the game that signaled Capcom’s rebirth, was in 2017.

I do agree with you Max, that with the recent success of Monster Hunter, Resident Evil remake series, and the upcoming Street Fighter 6 it does seem that Capcom is back on the right foot. Now we can get them to actually make a very good Megaman game will be in business. But that doesn't mean that there can't be a few hurdles for them along the way that they need to overcome such as the fandoms desire to have great content but also story-driven games that can appeal to a general audience.

Something worth noting is that almost every game since RE7 has had a demo everyone can play that is pretty representative of the final product. It's clear that from that moment forward, they wanted to turn on a new leaf.

The announcement of dragons dogma 2 alone got me to go out and buy a modern console. I had always planned on getting one for monster hunter eventually, but man. Seeing capcom giving DD a chance again sent my gamer hype sky high again. Super excited to see what that game can REALLY be, since not even half of the planned content of the first one made it in, and it was still a really solid title. Got to see bits of game-play from the online version, but it never made it to the west unfortunately.

Between Monster Hunter, Resident evil, Devil May Cry 5, the upcoming Street Fighter 6, and even Mega Man getting some love, Capcom has been killing it so far!

Truly wasnt expecting such a comeback from a big company in this day and age. The 2 new main guys behind sf6 are shapin up to be living legends

We need a Capcom Fighting Collection Vol. 2 that includes Power Stone 1&2, Plasma Sword/Star Gladiator, Rival Schools/Project Justice and other fighting game gems.

Another franchise of theirs that is rolling within that period were the 3DS Ace Attorney games. Phoenix Wright is also showing up in some of the most obscure games like the project Xzone and even collabing with Layton. They even rereleased the Great Ace Attorney games for the rest of the world. Would love to see more of this Capcom

Ever since (I'm gonna say) RE7, Capcom's been on an absolute comeback streak releasing hit after hit after hit with only a few minor faults. I also feel they've struck gold with their RE-Engine with no sign of stopping. They're on a total roll!

The thing that gets me concerned with SF6 is that Capcom said they expect 10 million units sold. It's not if it can reach that number that concerns me, it's that it creates a behavior of increasing expectations until they are untenable. Kind of like the thought process that lead to RE6, initially. Edit: I want to clarify, it's not necessarily SF6 sales expectations, but I'm worried lofty sales expectations may become a pattern.

It's always great to hear 'Vidya history with Uncle Max', what a truly knowledgeable and passionate man. Shine on, dood.

I've been a fan of MH , DMC , Resident Evil , and Street Fighter as well as so many other wonderful titles since i was a child and now 22. It makes me unbelievably happy to see this company go back to the roots of how a gaming company should be and operate and as someone who's currently playing one of their major games (Sunbreak) the appreciation towards not only the game but us as a customer is phenomenal. I pray and hope that Cap-God stays this way and that many existing companies can take notes and learn to be patient and original and not just spew out money driven ,glitchy and horrible games that wont do any good till so many updates and DLC's later.

Capcom's got a ton of momentum. While they can still misstep, they aren't making many of them, and they've more importantly demonstrated that they can correct if they do make them. Also, the RE Engine is a killer app that puts them above punching weight with the current industry standards, and its something they made in house. That's an engine to be proud of.

I say this as someone that to this day is forever grateful to Yoshinori Ono for bringing Street Fighter back from the dead and championing Darkstalkers as hard as he did: the best thing Capcom did was get rid of him. There were a lot of really weird decisions made on his watch, many would say too many weird decisions. Ever since Matsumoto and Nakayama took over the fighting game division, we have seen a complete about-face in communication, content, presentation, passion, etc. This is especially jarring when you look at how SFV was promoted and handle before and after its launch versus how they're handling SF6. They elevated people that desperately wanted to fix past mistakes made, and it couldn't have been done at a much better time. Also, Dragon's Dogma 2 is happening. That seals the CapGod status for me.

I would love to see a future Capcom Cup that not only had Street Fighter, but a new Marvel game, a new Darkstalkers game, and a new Rival Schools game. Now THAT would be a hell of a tournament to watch.

No. Darkstalkers 4 and MegaMan Legends 3 are still subjects that Capcom desperately avoid and refuse to accept responsibility for.

They're certainly in a new golden age, that's unmistakable. That said, I do wish that they would be more willing to experiment with some of their dormant IP's instead of just their golden gooses. Like if they want to play it a little safe, I think a remake or new game in the Dead Rising series with Capcom's new approach to game design could be well received. If that works out, maybe they could try Darkstalkers and if that works out, the sky's the limits from Dino Crisis to Okami to Breath of Fire to Power Stone to Viewtiful Joe to Strider to Onimusha to Rival Schools to Lost Planet to Bionic Commando to maybe even one day, if we're lucky, Marvel vs. Capcom.

So excited for Capcoms future. Dragon's Dogma 2 and Monster Hunter 6 are gonna be so hype.

As someone who's been a Capcom fan since the mid 80s when Captain Commando was the mascot in every instruction manual, i love to see them back on top again. Some of my fondest gaming memories are courtesy of this company.

Capcom will be Capgod once they revive Lost Planet back to its former glory and release Dragon's Dogma 2 ;P

It’s definitely a good year for capcom this year

I only know Darkstalkers from the VS series but to see only three Darkstalkers characters make it to 3D is kinda criminal. I hope Capcom is able to create and manage a team that loves the Darkstalkers series and properly introduce the characters to a new generation of gamers. This is all just wishful thinking but one can only hope.

Monster Hunter World is also the only game I know of that year, that did Gaming as a service well, they constantly updated the game, fixed issues, gave people an expansion that wasn't planned but because people wanted more of it, they did extremely well and is what probably why Capcom stepped up their games

Straight up, I feel like right now up to these past few years have been the BEST time to be a Capcom fan

Now if only companies like Konami and Sega could treat their beloved franchises this way, because man Capcom is killing it right now!

Capcom will always be my #1 game production company

Capcom is back like it’s late 90’s and 2000’s again. 😊

its a new peak for sure. The valley began around Dead Rising/Lost Planet era and the disastrous SFV launch but we back.

It is amazing how much they can do using their RE engine.

I love how no one mentions MonHun in the Crapcom era. Because, you know, those games kept Capcom afloat for those dark years

Give us new age Dark stalkers to truly ascend to Capgodhood!!!

It's insane how RE7 literally defined the renaissance of Capcom. I loved that game, and I love it more every year for what it paved the way for.

At the end of the day what this shows is that any game company, no matter how legendary, can fumble to the ground. And equally so any company can have a redemption arc. They just need to remember what made people love them in the first place. I may have only played the Devil May Cry series, but I think I can say I'm a fan of Capcom. And I'm proud right now.

i know max doesn't play handheld games, but a lot of credit also goes to monhun on the 3ds. it stayed popular in japan and was gaining notoriety in the west. long enough to possibly help fund resident evil 7, monhun world ect. ect.

It would be so cool if Capcom formed a fighting game division. That solely focused on making fighting games

It's nice to see Capcom return to quality. Hope one day ubisoft can do the same one day, forgot how many bangers they made in the good Ole days

The fact that Megaman X9 is no longer a pipe dream makes me unbelievably happy.

I'm interested to see how something like Exoprimal turns out as kind of an indicator of where they are overall. Their A tier products have definitely been hitting for a while now but they haven't really had a lot of tweener B tier projects make a lot of impact. Obviously doesn't have to be MonHun but would be nice to see them deliver some of those in between mega project games that folks end up enjoying and aren't just nostalgia backed.

really hoping that they can do a new Darkstalkers eventually, i feel like that series can be a really good selling franchise if Capcom would just make a new game for it

It's amazing what they're doing. A game series I've been hoping they'll revisit is Breath of Fire. With sales killing it, I can only hope they'll sink some money into make an RPG that can compete with the newer Final fantasy games coming out.

Capcom has been one if not my favorite developer without me realizing it. Been playing Monster Hunter since Freedom Unite and in recent years have been trying out some of their other IPs like RE and DMC and have been absolutely loving it. Now with Street Fighter 6 coming out soon I cannot wait, I’ve never played SF before but from what I’ve seen and played in the demo it’s looking like another Capcom banger!

The story of Inafune intrigues me because it's not like his thoughts were in any way UN-common at that time. TONS of people, in the press, on forums, even in Japan, repeated some variant of this thinking. Japan was taken by surprise by the OVERWHELMING sales of US-developed games and saw their own games sell for not nearly as much (though I do wonder in hindsight, were they still selling profitably but not AS profitably as US-games, or were they genuinely not selling well at all?), and thought that in order to develop games for the HD generation they had to pour FAR more resources and time into their games, slowing down their output tremendously for games that they were not as capable of developing as the West. This was the narrative that was being spread at the time. If it was true, then Inafune wasn't WRONG to reach outside the company to find ways to develop games quicker, and gain skills from outside developers that could cover their own weaknesses. It just feels like every step he took to EXECUTE that plan floundered. He cheaped out instead of hiring the dev studios of skilled devs that actually made those million-selling games, as if he thought it didn't matter WHAT western studio he hired to make games, just as long as they were Western. Or perhaps it was a management-level issue: that trying to steer development of a Japanese games with Japanese management methods on a western studio, was always doomed to fail. Whatever the case may be, it feels to me that an idea that wasn't INHERENTLY wrong (our industry is experiencing a backslide and we need to proactively find ways to fight it) lead to a plan that was just FUNDAMENTALLY wrong-headed at nearly every step. And man oh man, I REALLY want to know the inside scoop to what they were doing with their money and what the thinking was at that time. Pouring money into making Phanta Rei-engine for a game that never seems to be coming out, spending a TON of money on outside promo stuff like the animations and licensed music for Street Fighter X Tekken practically NECCESSITATING them to include some real nickle and dime DLC-stuff or the game would NEVER make back it's investment (spoler alert, it didn't anyway), having to reboot development on SF5 from it's initial realistic art style to the point where they had to take Sony-money to wrap it up and make it a PS4 /PC game only, spending as little as they could on Marvel vs Capcom Infinite, pumping out fighting games seemingly thinking that the renaissance meant there were surely audiences for ALL the games they had instead of spreading that stuff out... it just seems like financial decision after financial decision in that time was scientifically engineered to be as much murder on their finances as possible. Not to mention all the studios they contracted to make games that... didn't exactly set the world on fire. (Though wasn't Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom HEAVILY affected by the 2011 earthquake? I seem to recall their initial plan was ACTUALLY to release the Ultimate characters as downloadable content first, and then do an update far later... but the earthquake so severly changed things for them (personnel quit and work essentially stopped) that they seemed to decide to just take what they had made and put it on a disc, or else risk it never being made at all?) I wonder if that's why they've been so conservative lately with game releases. Sure, the games they DO release are (mostly) polished and really good, and sell well enough for their budgets. It may sting that they're more or less the Monster Hunter and Resident Evil company these days... but it seems to be a strategy that keeps the lights on and leads to (mostly) well-regarded games. Capcom scaling down and laser-focusing on these hits is probably the soundest financial AND development-based decision they've ever made... But maaaaaaaaannnnnn..... us nostalgic oldheads who remember the times when they just POURED out a variety of IP's of very different styles still can't help but wish those days would come back. But I'm afraid that it's just not possible these days: SNK supports both SamSho and King of Fighters AND Fatal Fury... but I wonder if ANY of them will be as ambitious as SF6, and I fear that it is just not feasible for any dev to support multiple fighting games if one of them is as ambitious as SF6 is. I fear that in todays climate, the days of width is truly over. We will have staples that get the BIG money, and the smaller stuff gets re-releases or games on the level of Megaman 11. Certainly not BAD games... but they are NOT delivering anything AAA in them, and we will get like ONE of them a year.

There are few companies in gaming I truly appreciate existing; there's always some little cavoite that makes me wonder if I really want to be supporting them with my purchases. Right now, Capcom is the only one I'm absolutely confident will put their heart and soul into making a fantastic experience for us even if they still occasionally misstep. There are a few divisions within other companies that do great too, but they just don't deliver the whole package in the same way Capcom has been doing with no strings attached from the business side of things.

Granted, Resident Evil games are the only ones I play from Capcom, but it's great to see them make a comeback. I have a lot of respect for them as a company. They also have an excellent track record for releasing good quality games that are properly optimized for the platforms they're released on, which is seemingly becoming less common with other companies.

Feel like depends on if SF6 is recieved well or not. I hope CapGod is back after the bumpy road post UMVC3.

Capcom is kinda hitting all the right spots right now, super cool to see as a hardcore fan of most things Capcom!

Yes, I was thinking about that the other day. They're definitely back

I've never been an RE or Megaman guy, but I'd waited for so long to see a Monster Hunter on home systems, where its scale and fidelity could be properly realised. World was everything that franchise needed, and certainly everything I wanted from it. Iceborne was also the very sweet cherry on the top (and Rise was very enjoyable too, as a PC player). Besides MH, I like fighting games but I'd never gotten into SF (I was a Tekken kid with other titles here and there). SF6 will be my first because it looks so good.

Yeah. Over the past several years, between Resident Evil on all fronts, Devil May Cry 5, the evolution of Street Fighter 5, leading into the release of Street Fighter 6 and its promotion.... Capcom is TRULY back as "CapGOD".

You really gotta wonder what happened 6 years ago to have Capcom actually get their shit together and actually deliver on people want.

I'm glad that monster hunter has always stayed consistent and growing in quality even in the dark age

CAPGOD has always been the best game developer for me such unique ART it’s godly they’re promo art for fighting characters and a banging stacked catologue Streetfighter 2 on the SNES changed my life and I was 8 years old and boy was I hooked the fight game catalogue was A+ I played every fighting game they released And then devil may cry dropped and it blew my fricking mind and have loved that series can’t wait for DMC6 Then

Devil May Cry V was really impressive too

Capcom is my favorite developer and yeah they are doing a great job right now! I love the Ace attorney series, that has been doing great too! some things I would like to see from them are: a Powerstone Collection, a new Darkstalkers game, a collection for the Ace Attorney Investigations series, Dino Crisis Remake, maybe something with Okami and Zak and Wiki and somehow bring back Cadillacs and Dinosaurs or Final Fight.

Man now I really want a remake of Haunting Grounds or Clocker Tower

man, to think that REmake 2 and DMC V came out 4 YEARS AGO. I remember playing REmake 2 all frickin launch day and it was unreal scary.

They turned into crap on again with anti modding drm

CAPGOD wasn't risk adversive and made alot of unique and distinct IPs. I don't they'll ever return to that level of creativity but they're definitely back on the right track. Very rare for a company to recover like they have.

The title reveal of RE7 in that first trailer was amazing.

its wild how showing fans the passion you have for the game can make it do well.

I loved watching Capcom make this comeback. Let's hope Konami takes note. I'm such a huge capcom fanboy since MHW

To me, the only way CapGOD would be truly back is when they bring back Darkstalkers and Power Stone and make them great again.

I remember you GOING THROUGH IT when Capcom was failing, especially Marvel VS Capcom Infinite happened

Yeah I remember when Capcom was in a very dark place for a few years. Now it’s crazy how many bangers they keep releasing back to back

I think we are still a bit of a ways off from the return of Capgod. I want to see what Dragon's Dogma 2 is shaping up to be, and if we're going to get ANYTHING regarding Onimusha aside from the Netflix series. I want that series to make a return so badly!

Ok I have a big prediction. There will be an new Capcom vs SNK. Here is why. The Saudi company that owns SNK also owns a big share of Capcom. Also with Capcom losing the marvel license they want another cross over to bring in aa new audience.

And *I* will never forget the moment you found out that Kitchen was Resident Evil 7. That still, to this day, is one of my favourite videos of yours, just the reaction to it, when you were joking at first that it'd be RE7, and then the reveal happens, and you lost you fucking mind. It was AMAZING. lol

Hope Capcom makes more Dino crisis and Onimusha games.

Five years ago, the entire gaming press thought that the Japanese gaming industry would be completely cut off. How the tide has turned thanks to Capcom and From Software.

Hello! Here from beating Dragons Dogma 2, they are CapGod for sure.

Would love to see a tag fighter come out eventually by the same team doing SF6, even if it's only Capcom characters.

Lets not get too carried away. Two steps forwards, one step back may be progress. But all it takes is a small change and they're going backwards again.

This did not age well

My favourite gaming company, glad to see them back on the up and up. I really hope those leaks were true and we get Power Stone 3

Now if they could just release an update / more info on the Dragon's Dogma sequel, we'd be golden 🙏

Dmc and RE2 remake got them back on track and now, Scotty's on fire

Not yet, they aren't CapGods yet until I see Dragon's Dogma 2 trailer in the beautiful REngine

it all comes down to the next wave of games they release so far we dont know whats coming after SF6 except Dragons Dogma2

We're so proud of you, CapGod Anyway, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 and Midnight Suns had X-men chacacters, as well as finally had new Dragonball Tenkaichi game announced at DBFZ Grand Finals, so do we had new MvC announcement at EVO UMvC3 Grand Finals?

Whenever MVC4 happens There needs to be a big "EVERYONE IS HERE!!!" Moment to make up for Infinite.

Its nice to see life for once aknowledge that quality can pay

Capcom has been pretty much on fire for the last four to five years overall. I am also impressed with how well their games also work on the Steamdeck

Resident Evil 7 was the beginning, what a start!

Mega Man Legends and Monster Hunter collections would be awesome to see

Great review! Thx Max! I think the best support other fighting game for SF is such like Rival School. So Capcom can experiment create bunch of young and fresh fighters on that.

I'm so happy to see the success of megaman battle network collection man. Capcom did fantastic for the marketing of it

That 2009 Bionic Commando game still scars me to this day.

I personally would LOVE to see a studio/developer fighting game deal! Have a Capcom/Marvel-NetherRealm game, jointly worked on! Just to see a darker version of it! The tech these days is only getting crazier! That’s just my personal wish! Actual individualized character story modes, a Kombat tower, going back and forth with Marvel multiverse options based on who survives MK tourneys, changing stories as DLC content/seasons. Something along those lines would be ridiculous to me!