Capcom's not letting their guard down even if they already have a strong presence in the market. Gamasutra sat down for an interview with Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Research Christian Svensson, and he talked about Capcom's future with much focus on Wii and downloadable content.

Svensson expressed his confidence with Resident Evil 4 going to the Wii, saying "anytime you sell another copy to another user, it expands the brand." Even with the PC version getting patches for improvement, he believes that the Wii version of RE4 is going to be the best out of four platforms.

While Capcom will be releasing several titles available for download on PS3 and Xbox 360 platforms, Svensson stated that it's more difficult to make a Wii downloadable game because of filesize limitations. On the good side, he confirmed the possibility of making original content on Wii if Nintendo gets their processes in order. Apart from that, the only main problem for making downloadable games available is the coordination required between them and the company of the console they want the game on.

Support for Windows games haven't been decided yet, but Capcom is trying to extend its market by focusing on the PC. "If you look at a lot of the developing markets like China, South Korea, and India, the gaming platform of choice is the PC" says Svensson. They seem to have great plans indeed, as he believes that Monster Hunter: Frontier will be big when it goes live in Japan.

For the full interview, check out the Read link below.

If you ask us, it seems that Capcom is really serious in getting a huge portion of the booming MMORPG genre. After expanding to Asia with its consolidated subsidiary in South Korea, Capcom has just announced the first offline event for forthcoming title Monster Hunter Frontier.

The event will commence on June 4 in Shinagawa. Known as Hunter Coffee Hour, the event will be a good venue for players to meet up with the title's development team and join in the ensuing Q&A. More importantly, the progress of the game in terms of development will be discussed along with the reports from closed beta testers.

The winners of the recent Monster Hunter Frontier contest in Japan will also be picked during the event. Accordingly, 100 out of 1,000 names will be handpicked by Capcom for a chance to participate in the above mentioned closed beta testing. During Hunter Coffee Hour, the 100 names will be narrowed down further to about two people.

Monster Hunter Frontier will be released sometime this June.

After conquering the MMORPG genre, Blizzard now has plans of going into the mobile industry. Quite curiously, we found out that Capcom is doing quite the reverse as plans to delve in the World of Warcraft-dominated arena were revealed with the help of upcoming title Monster Hunter Frontier.

The title is actually a MMO version of the PlayStation 2 (PS2) and PlayStation Portable originals Monster Hunter Freedom and Monster Hunter Portable 2. With the upcoming release on June, what Capcom did was open a consolidated subsidiary office in South Korea that will oversee the title's success in the region.

Aside from focusing on online video games, the new Capcom office is also reported to take care of the company's publishing business throughout Asia. The South Korea HQ actually began operations earlier today. This development could only mean two thing: more Capcom titles for our friends in Asia and second, another potential rival to WoW.

Call it "Monster Hunter goes MMO." I'd personally call it Monster Hunter on 'roids! Well, the installments on the PS2 and PSP are quite a catch as they are, but bring it over to the virtual network world and you're talking about monster overload in Capcom's Monster Hunter Frontier.

To help you with all that hunting though, third-party manufacturer Elecom is offering a 12-button controller for the game, and it looks much like a PS2 controller, with a few tweaks and changes. The controller attaches to your PC via USB. It's actually going to be the recommended input device for playing Monster Hunter Frontier, as the buttons were mapped strategically to best way possible.

The controller can operate on both Analog and Digital modes, and comes with a USB cable strap and CD driver.

 

Capcom's Monster Hunter is pretty much known to be a PlayStation franchise, with various titles off the series having previously appeared on PS2 and PSP (Monster Hunter Freedom and Monster Hunter Portable 2, and soon on the PS3 (Monster Hunter 3). Ever wondered whether the franchise will expand to PC gaming as well?

Well wonder no more, because according to Siliconera, Capcom is indeed planning on branching out to PCs with Monster Hunter Frontier. Oh yes, the new action RPG game off the series is currently in the works and we have the first batch of details right here!

• Required specs: Windows XP, a Pentium III processor 1 GHz or faster, 256 MB of RAM, a video card with 64MB of memory and at least 800 MB of hard drive space.
• Unlike its console brethren, Frontier will only be playable online where hunters can group with up to four other users to play the game.
• The game will have a "dedicated community" much like Phantasy Star Online. No word from Capcom yet on whether there will be fees to pay and whether Frontier will be released outside Japan. (Let's keep our fingers crossed for this one, fellas.)
• Closed beta will begin on January 25th.
  

Well there ya have it guys, Monster Hunter Frontier will be heading to PCs soon, so we strongly advise you keep checking back with us for more details on the game. We'll keep you posted.