Capcom is opening its vault. The company is reviving more dormant franchises after Onimusha: Way of the Sword sold more than a million copies in its first day. Nostalgia remains a useful business model when the numbers cooperate.
The result gives Capcom room to revisit series that have spent years waiting for another chance. The first new mainline Onimusha game since 2006’s Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams is being developed, marking a return after a long absence.
Capcom has also found success with recent titles including Resident Evil Requiem and Pragmata. Together with the first-day sales for Onimusha: Way of the Sword, those games give the company a clear reason to keep mining its back catalogue instead of leaving it to collect dust.
Several Familiar Series Are Still Waiting
Dino Crisis remains one of the clearest examples. The series has not received a new game since 2003, although Capcom released a bundle of the first two Dino Crisis games last year and brought them to Steam in February.
Dino Crisis 2 is also slated to join the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog later this year. Those releases put the series back in front of players, even though no new game has been announced in the verified information available here.
Dead Rising has not received a new game recently, but Capcom did release a remake of the first game. Lost Planet has been waiting even longer for a return; its last new entry was Lost Planet 3 in 2013.
Devil May Cry has not had a new mainline game since 2019’s Devil May Cry 5. The series is Capcom’s fifth most successful intellectual property, with 41 million copies sold, making the gap between major releases difficult to ignore.
Ace Attorney has also gone a decade without a new title. The series has sold 15 million copies, so its absence sits alongside the dormant status of Dino Crisis, Lost Planet, and Devil May Cry as part of a larger lineup problem — plenty of history, not enough new entries.
Other Publishers Are Expanding Their Biggest Series
The revival conversation extends beyond Capcom. The next mainline Witcher game is the centerpiece of CD Projekt Red SA’s massive investment and pipeline expansion, putting that series at the center of the company’s plans.
Square Enix is also preparing the next major chapter in its remake project. Final Fantasy VII Revelation launches on April 8, 2027, and serves as the third part in a trilogy of remakes covering the original PS1 game.
The first part of that trilogy arrived in 2020, followed by the second in 2024. Final Fantasy VII Revelation will be available on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch 2, and PC, giving the release a broad platform reach from launch.
Pre-orders are open for PS5 owners, with a Premium Edition offering early access and additional content. Final Fantasy Resonance is set to release on October 22, giving Square Enix another major date on the calendar before the remake trilogy reaches its conclusion.
Capcom’s position is the most immediate: a dormant series has returned, and its opening sales have cleared more than a million copies in one day. Whether that momentum reaches Dino Crisis, Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Devil May Cry, or Ace Attorney remains unknown — but the vault door is no longer closed.
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