Capcom Announces Summer Showcase 2024, Airing Next Week

They'll port RE7 to iOS but not Switch?!

@SillyG I'm guessing there's going to be a cascade of Resident Evil ports in the early days of the Switch 2 if only because of how they never did a cloud version of 4.

Capcom having a showcase for RE7 on a platform where almost nobody will buy it anyway? I'm looking forward to seeing more of Dead Rising though

@Lizuka : If they're going to do a cloud version at all, then they might as well bring it to the Switch if they think it will sell, but I think you're right in that we'll be bombarded with (proper) ports of more recent games on the next hardware.

In any case, if they do re/release Resident Evil anything on the next console that they do so on cartridge this time around. The partial retail releases are an absolute joke, and the cloud versions even more so.

Oh, Dead Rising coming to Switch?

Sadly I doubt there will be any new Megaman games this year

Thanks for letting me know I don't need to watch this!

Well, the only one I care about is Kunitsu Gami, and I’ll be playing that on game pass anyway. So skip for me. Don’t care about dead rising or resident evil.

@SillyG Apple pays, Nintendo not, it’s that easy. It‘s an open secret that Sony paid Capcom for RE7 VR (for PSVR), RE8 VR and RE4 VR (for PSVR2). If Capcom can get away with it, why not?

@Axecon Which sucks, I was hoping to at least hear about a StarForce collection.

Woo excited for kunitsugami!

I am super excited for Kunitsu-gami, but I might be one of the few only. Getting it day one for music and setting.

@SillyG in all honesty, sticking to a cloud version of a first person horror almost completely confined to rooms and corridors in the presence of ports like Witcher 3, Outer Worlds and Kingdom Come Deliverance does tempt a bit of a Kingdom Hearts deja vu. The game's own RE Engine is already under the hood of MHR with its spectacular and spacious environments. But nope, let's rather port the thing to a more multipurpose ARM device users will need to attach separately bought peripheral controls to. ¯(ツ)/¯ /salt

Dino Crisis reveal would be nice

Don't tell me they're actually making RE7 native for phones but not the Switch. That seems really really weird to me.

Do they own the rights to Viewtiful Joe outright? If yes, I find his blinking out of the video game sphere just odd.

@SillyG RE7 is already technically on Switch in japan via the cloud

@Mana_Knight yes they do. That was made under Capcom's short lived Clover studios

The only remasters I care about them EVER getting around to doing is the rest of the Onimusha games for Switch. We’re still waiting Capcom……what’s the hold up?

As an Apple user, I hope Capcom's investment in the platform, even if it is Apple-sponsored, means we'll have RE9 on launch there as well.

Surely they're going to surprise drop a new Breath of Fire as well, returning to its turn based RPG roots and all that.

Ah yes, it's yet again time for the Capcom cycle

Capcom announce an event and EXACTLY what will and won't be there and people will expect more anyway.

Looking forward to the whinging.

@Samalik Thought so. Thank you. Hmmm. No idea why he gets no love then!

New Resident evil or Rrmake
or SWITCH 2 PORT

Just port RE7 on PSVR2, come on!

@SillyG Any iOS device released since iPhone 7 is more powerful than a Switch. And every year, more new iPhones are sold (~200M/year) than Switch were sold over 7 years (~140M in total).
Add to this the compatibility with the very capable ARM Macs and iPads... That's a huge gap in sheer market size.
It makes a lot of sense to prioritize more capable chips vs. trying another "impossible port" to Switch of an aging game they already released a “cloud” version of last year.

@SillyG because the Switch isn’t powerful enough to run RE7 natively. And newer iPhones are more powerful than the Switch.

I was really hoping for an Onimusha Collection announcement. Onimusha 2, 3, and Dawn of Dreams deserve rereleases.

The iPhone ports put out by Capcom and Ubisoft are basically just advertisements paid for by Apple to show off the capabilities of their recent chips for high end gaming, they all sell poorly and are pretty much unplayable with touch controls.

Why would you want to play RE7 on a phone of all things? Ideally you wanna play at home on a big screen, late at night with all the lights turned out. Not on a tiny screen while you're riding a crowded subway to work or whatever.

@DogDetective Yeah, it's honestly weird to me they only ported the first one to Switch.

Capcom always had a weird showcase, normally all their good stuffs are shown at the big three showcase instead so like last year I think I'll just skipped this year's showcase as well since I already I got what I want from them.

I'm excited to show my kids Mahvel. Otherwise, just wishing Capcom success.

@SillyG The thing with phones and computers nowadays is that they are multimedia devices so those device are required to constantly be updated thus required more powerful upgrade every year to be active. This is not the same for gaming consoles. Game consoles don't need to be upgrade every year as it's up to the gaming developers to take advantage of the console's hardware specs and optimize their games according to those specs. This is why games like Resident Evil 7 could be ported to phones and computers but not Switch.

It doesn't matter anyways as these games will be release as a collection for Switch 2 anyways. Knowing Capcom's history with re-releasing these kind of games they will continue to milk them for as long as they can so even if these are not on Switch now, they will be on the next Nintendo console at some point for as long as Nintendo continue to exist in the gaming market. It happen with the older Resident Evil games so it'll likely happen with these games too.

I've never played a Dead Rising game before but always wanted to check them out.
Here's to hoping it'll be released on something other than Xbox and PS5.

No Monster Hunter? Oh okay ☹️

Kunitsugami looks great, but the monsters seem just a little too gruesome for my tastes. I was such a big fan of Okami back in the day, but ironically the PS2 graphics made the designs appear more tame, and they would probably resemble Kunitsugami if Okami was given a full remake 😥

Power Stone! Power Stone! Power Stone!

The simple fact RE7 is coming to Apple platforms is enough to make me wish for Switch 2 coverage already :/

The stripped down Dead rising using RE4 engine was fun on Wii.

@SillyG

The iPhone 15 Pro struggles pretty hard with RE4 or Village, and that device vastly outperforms a Switch. Switch successor? I do hope so.