Capcom has revealed that it has a ‘main unannounced title’ deliberate for launch earlier than March 2024 or earlier than its presently fiscal yr ends. We know that the corporate is tough at work on a number of main initiatives proper now together with Dragon’s Dogma 2, the mysterious Pragmata and presumably Resident Evil 9. The outlier appears to be the following large Monster Hunter recreation, which followers anticipate may be the unannounced recreation anticipated to launch very quickly.
As reported by Video Games Chronicle, the Japanese Q&A bit of Capcom’s latest earnings name revealed that it intends to hit a forty five million models gross sales goal for its present fiscal yr with its unannounced title. The firm reached 22.6 million models on the midway mark of the fiscal yr, that means that no matter unannounced recreation is ready to launch in just a few months may be associated to certainly one of Capcom’s greatest franchises: Resident Evil and Monster Hunter.
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To rule out Resident Evil, it’s unlikely {that a} new entry would attain that lofty gross sales goal. Even at its greatest, the franchise has by no means drawn within the strongest preliminary gross sales. New Resident Evil video games usually turn into main monetary successes a number of months later. The solely franchise left is Monster Hunter and that looks like a good guess. At practically 20 million copies offered, Monster Hunter World is Capcom’s best-selling recreation of all time so the anticipation for a follow-up can be extremely excessive – excessive sufficient to satisfy Capcom’s fiscal yr goal.
This shouldn’t be confused with Monster Hunter Rise as that’s largely thought-about a facet mission within the franchise. The subsequent mainline entry can be Monster Hunter 6 or a direct follow-up to World, which might be extensively out there on nearly all platforms on launch. To add a bit extra gasoline to the fireplace, the Monster Hunter franchise will have a good time its twentieth anniversary in March subsequent yr, that means it might be an ideal alternative to launch a brand new recreation.
Some have speculated that it could possibly be Dragon’s Dogma 2 as an alternative, although Capcom particularly lists the sport as “unannounced” in its earnings outcomes. Either approach, it’s secure to imagine {that a} reveal for this thriller recreation may occur at The Game Awards in December.
In the meantime, take a look at the cell recreation, Monster Hunter Now, which affords an AR expertise that’s been warmly obtained by followers to date.
Source: Video Games Chronicle
