Infaune Feels He Singlehandedly Saved Capcom

Keiji Inafune, the former development head over at Capcom has revealed some startling secrets about Capcom, including a strictly adhered to ‘sequels-only’ creation rule.

During a recent seminar addressed to a group of students at a Kyoto based university, Inafune discussed how Capcom had originally rejected his plans for Dead Rising and Lost Planet. As part of their strict sequels-only rule, Capcom required that 70-80 percent of content created was sequels, with a sliver thin piece of the pie to the tune of twenty percent placed aside for new IP’s.

However even with the portion for original content, Capcom alledgely refused all new ideas, and that’s what Inafune fell victim to.

Going against the companies wishes, Keiji forged on and started development of Lost Planet, and he feels with that move he “saved the company”.

Prepared to be fired for ‘war crimes’ if the games had failed on the market, Inafune was incredibly happy when the titles sold millions worldwide and helped drive Capcom’s earnings and stock price.

Source: [CVG] via [Andriasang]