According to Capcom, the survival horror genre is no longer strong enough to stand on its own for both the future of the Resident Evil series and the gaming industry as a whole.
In an interview with Gamasutra, Masachika Kawata, the executive producer for Resident Evil Revelations on the 3DS, says the market for the creepy and slower paced games no longer sells well enough in North America with concerns of the genre beginning to reach niche status. His main reasoning involved comparing the sales of recent horror and horror-like games with the higher selling quick-paced shooters that currently dominate the market.
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Each Resident Evil game since Resident Evil 4 has been moving more toward action, Kawata said, and the series should continue to do so:
Especially for the North American market, I think the series needs to head in that [action-oriented] direction. [Resident Evil's primary games] need to be an extension of the changes made in Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5.
RE4 started in that direction, and RE5 kept going in that direction. And I think that especially for the North American market, we need to keep going in that direction, and take that a step further. And that's exactly one of the reasons that Revelations is the way it is.
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He did mention that the Resident Evil series won't completely ditch its horror roots but instead will now be considered as an additional gameplay feature instead of the main focus with older RE games. Resident Evil Revelations and Operation Racoon City are being used to test out this new mesh in gameplay styles.
http://kotaku.com/5895875/survival-h...-evil-producer
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