Capcom working on 'PC-lead' projects

by JC Fletcher on Sep 5th 2009 11:30AM

Speaking to VG247 in a podcast, Capcom's Christian Svensson offered the faintest of hints about new products in the works, indicating only that some of them were being made with PC as the lead platform. "That doesn't mean that that content isn't also going to show up on console," Svensson clarified, "because it will."

This is different from other PC-designed products using the MT Framework engine in that these games are being designed specifically with PC audiences in mind. Svensson said that "the pedigree of the team and the primary focus of the design is around the PC, and the largest forecast is on PC for at least one of these projects."

New IP from Capcom seems like something to look forward to, right? If only we knew anything at all about it.

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Reader Comments (55)

To put that in perspective for a few of you, Street Fighter IV was a PC game before it was anything else.
Sure it had an arcade machine around it, but it was running on a modified version of Win XP.

Your right, the arcade version runs on Taito X2 hardware, which uses PC components, like an Nvidia Geforce video card and a Core 2 Duo processor. I think BlazBlue also uses it so I'm hoping it can come to PC. Sega's recent arcade systems also use PC components.

So the games on these systems should be easy to port to PC or emulating them should be easy.

Yes, but it wasn't designed with PC gamers in mind; It was designed with 2D fighting hardcores in mind. What this article is saying is that they're designing some games particularly for the PC AUDIENCE... not just making games on PC first before porting to other hardware.

Thumbs down all around for fanboyism!

I hope it's Monster Hunter Frontier for the US market, or even a 360 port of Frontier. Seriously, I'd pay a subscription fee for that. A LIFETIME subscription. Capcom, you hear that? I'll give you like, the $150 or whatnot you wanna charge for a lifetime subscription of Monster Hunter Frontier.

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