Is Dead Rising 2 in development? That seems to be the question around the gaming community and Capcom's offices today after Kotaku reported that an upcoming Famitsu issue has confirmations from Capcom's lead producer Keiji Inafune on a sequel to their best-selling title.
"We're finally putting out new Dead Rising and Lost Planet games! As a main principle we're thinking about multiplatform, and expanding upon both slightly from the Xbox 360 version," producer Inafune reportedly tells the magazine.
Sounds like a clear-quote confirmation, right?
Not so fast.
In what could be their own game of misinformation, Capcom officials were quick to deny the quote and sequel confirmation from Inafune while gamers are getting silence at the official Ask Capcom forum on the news. The software giant is blaming the language barrier (aka a mistranslation) on Keiji Inafune's quote to Famitsu.
"Dead Rising was a huge success for us and is obviously the kind of game we'd like to continue to make." says Capcom. "However, at the moment we have made no official announcement regarding a sequel. As the source is Famitsu, I can only suggest that it was a mistranslation"
For months, there's been rumors that Capcom handed off the development to the Blue Castle shingle for development into a Dead Rising sequel but like any rumors before it, the company has yet to confirm those as well. With the court case between Dawn of the Dead rights holder MKR and Capcom recently wrapping up in Capcom's favor on copyright infringement, the gaming community has expected a confirmation on the sequels but no press release has come forth.
This could be a case where head producer Keiji Inafune jumped the gun early and announced the sequels before Capcom was ready. Or it could be a mistranslation as the company says.
Whatever the case, there will likely be a press release or confirmation soon.
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