Gamasutra Discusses Future of Capcom

Industry news site Gamasutra interviews Capcom’s Sr. Director of Strategic Planning and Research Chris Svensson about the future of the video game company. Among other topics, the interview mentions plans for the company’s Resident Evil series, the company’s PC strategy and about the digital downloads on Xbox Live, Wii and the PS3. Interestingly Svensson has this to say about why Capcom is taking a broader interest in the PC market:

CS: That’s one of the things that we have been pushing very heavily from the U.S. Not just because of the U.S. PC market, but we’re pushing it from the U.S. side with a much more global view of the world market. As much as I love Microsoft and Sony, if you look at a lot of the developing markets like China, South Korea, and India, the gaming platform of choice is the PC.

When you try and position yourself for the future, we think that there’s a lot of opportunity on the PC, even outside of the developed and existing markets. E-distribution in particular on some of the things we’re doing is one step towards that, on the smaller scale of things. You’ll also hear us announcing some other initiatives on some larger products for PC, both out of Japan and out of the U.S. You’ll see that taking another step further.

Check out the full interview here.