Capcom has announced some new details of its mobile games plans, with a planned Los Angeles-based Mobile and Interactive Division headed by Midori Yuasa. It plans to release more than 10 titles in North America by the end of the year, promising classics such as 1942, Ghosts ‘n Goblins, Mega Man (already placed with Verizon) and Resident Evil. This started in 1999 in Japan, but to date it has mainly concentrated on Japan and treated the rest of the world as an afterthought.
This is changing and the new Nth American mobile division is a part of that. Gamespot has the bigger picture...

Yuasa’s goal is to leverage what she calls the “unique influences and potential” of mobile games to bring Capcom franchises to gamers on the go. But the games will come with a twist. Drawing on her tenure at Sony Pictures Digital and that company’s successful track record with mobile iterations of Sony-owned franchises, including Wheel of Fortune, Yuasa said she will focus on a subscription model that would see new episodic content being made available to mobile gamers at monthly intervals. The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney mobile game, for example, will offer users a new case to download and investigate each month.

As well, the division will capitalize on a “viral” component where the user can send a text message from within the gameworld to a friend. The message will invite that friend to download the game and, in this case, join the Phoenix Wright community of mobile gamers.

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