Lol why is Capcom treating the switch with such a weird marketing gimmick?? It's like they don't want to be on the platform but are already contracted for some games
Especially weird considering how much Nintendo and Capcom used to sleep in the same bed during the 3ds/ GameCube era
See, that's the thing: the Switch
doesn't fit Capcom's current strategy. Their current batch of "prestige" classic IPs as high-end "AAA" just... can't run on Switch in their current incarnations and/or would take too much to port that they probably do not find it worth it. They also obviously had no plans for the Switch to begin with and have since realised they can still make money of that platform while "just" porting ports of old games. Div 1 is doing their own thing with the RE engine (
RE3make, whatever Itsuno has up next,
Onimusha if that ever gets off the ground, the multiplayer
RE game) and Div 2 is all hands on deck on the
Monster Hunter projects and the
Mega Man project, and whatever
Ace Attorney was and sure, those are coming to the Switch, (and will probably sell best there, ngl) but those are not their "big focus" and are ways off and the fighter teams are otherwise preoccupied in trying not to implode before they manage to put out the rest of
SFV and
SFVI and the
Vs. game they've got kicking around, and I doubt any of those fighters will make it to Switch.
As it stands the only things Capcom
has in development that could go on the Switch already
do. That they do so in underwhelming and dissapointing (and reprehensible? looking at you
RE4) ways notwithstanding, they just... don't have the output to do much more. You'll get your
Mega Man and your overpriced ports and whatever
MonHun Switch ends up being. But unless there's a radical shift in scope, Capcom will keep selling ports and collections that sell best on Switch and not much else.
