Do you like Ace Attorney? A Capcom he loves that it is “doing exceptionally well” around the world for Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PS4, especially since the series opened its borders.
There was a time when the Japanese company never considered publish the Ace Attorney saga Outside of Japan, such a niche game in its genre would not have made it big in North America and would have been difficult in Europe.
But little by little and from his releases on Nintendo DS, 3DS and 2DS, the franchise was gaining followers. And it was on these laptops that it was used to introduce its gameplay to more and more users of all ages.
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But as they have advanced from Nintendo Everything, Famitsu has interviewed Haruhiro Tsujimoto as Director of Operations at Capcom this week and he has left some very interesting comments.
The Japanese magazine took the opportunity to ask him a couple of questions about the company’s oldest IPs, which recently released The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and long before Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
Tsujimoto said that being able to sell products in digital format allows for more possibilities today, bringing up Mega Man and how Capcom has a much better understanding of them.
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For this reason, he gave as an example Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection -which has already sold more than a million copies- and how its notes have come together. We leave you with the fragment of the interview translated by the aforementioned medium:
“In terms of development, on the one hand there is sure to be a lot of demand to revitalize and continue with IPs like Megaman and Ghost Trick. Can you give me your opinion on working with existing IPs?”
Tsujimoto: That’s the kind of development happened by the popularity of digital media, with a digital store if we think ‘we want to sell this’ we can make it happen quickly.
A big part of that is the case with the Mega Man Saga, which so far we’ve released compilations and we have sales data and we can predict ‘if we launch the Mega Man Battle Network Saga, we can sell that much.
From Ghost Trick its director Shu Takumi also worked on the Ace Attorney series, which is doing exceptionally well all over the world.
By introducing a remaster of Ghost Trick with ‘this was also done by Shu Takumi, director of Ace Attorney’, we hope to be able to attract the attention of people all over the world.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy arrived in 2019 for PS4, Xbox, Switch y PC with the first three installments of this saga so loved and valued today.
After this we were able to enjoy The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles en 2021 para PS4, Nintendo Switch y PCwith the games that could originally be played on Nintendo 3DS and were localized for the first time.
Now from Capcom Confirms Ace Attorney Is “doing exceptionally well” Worldwideso it can give rise to new games or compilations.