News Capcom Wants All of Its Legacy Fighting Games to Be Re-Released on PS5, PS4

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Between compilations like Capcom Arcade Stadium and its sequel, Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle, and Capcom Fighting Collection, the Japanese publisher has being doing an amazing job making its renowned brawlers playable on contemporary hardware, like PS5 and PS4. That strategy will reach its zenith with the release of the Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection later this year, a highly anticipated bundle which will include the likes of Marvel vs Capcom 2 and The Punisher.

But the organization doesn't want to stop there.

"We have a lot of other legacy fighting games that we know fans out there really want them to be re-released again on modern platforms and the feeling is mutual on the development side," producer Shuhei Matsumoto told IGN, as transcribed by our colleagues at Nintendo Life. "What we can do right now is try to re-release them and so people who may have never had the chance to play those games get familiarized with them and from there hopefully we can go on to bigger and better things."

Re-releases not only preserve the legacy of classics, but they also open them up to an entire new audience. So, it would be safe to assume that the success of the Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection could theoretically lead to an entirely new entry – especially if publisher Capcom has huge sales numbers of the bundle to back up its ambition.

One game we'd personally like to see brought back from the archives is Rival Schools. Originally released in arcades in 1997 and then ported to the PS1 a year later, there's been very little movement in this franchise for decades. A sequel, named Project Justice, did deploy worldwide on Dreamcast in 2001, but the series has largely been abandoned since then.

The original Rival Schools included minigames and a complete dating sim mode in Japan, but localization issues meant this never released worldwide. It'd be great to see that finally translated after all these years, as we've always wanted to play it ever since seeing screenshots in Official PlayStation Magazine.

Other classic Capcom fighters we'd like to see re-released include JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, an awesome adaptation of the anime, which was briefly available on the PS3 before being delisted in 2014. And it'd be great to see other licensed crossovers like the Nintendo Wii's acclaimed Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars released for a wider audience as well.