In one of the most turbulent moments in memory in the video game industry, Capcom It is one of the few veteran companies that has done quite well in recent years, and the reason for having been saved from the crisis in the sector is as simple as it is complex at the same time: make good video games in a reasonable time, such as Resident Evil 7 (2017), Monster Hunter World (2018), Resident Evil 2 Remake (2019), Devil May Cry 5 (2019), Resident Evil Village (2021), Monster Hunter Rise (2021), Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023), Street Fighter 6 (2023) and Dragon’s Dogma 2 (2024), among others.
If we can blame him for anything in recent years, it is that he is living off his classic sagas and is risking very little when creating new franchises. We have the failure of Exoprimal (2023), and the new action game coming this year, Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (2024), but very little else. To these is added Pragmataa game announced in 2020, when PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series had not yet gone on sale, and it seemed like it was going to be Capcom’s debut in the new generation, but it is clear that its development has been complicated. What is happening with this game?
An action adventure with a science fiction setting and an uncertain future
Announced at the PS5 reveal event on June 11, 2020, Pragmata was presented with an enigmatic but attractive trailer in which we saw an astronaut and a girl in Times Square, New York, with a science fiction and fantasy setting, the two characters forming a team when after entering zero gravity they manage to avoid a satellite that It falls towards the Earth, and ends up on the surface of the Moon. Confirmed for PS5, Xbox Series and PC, Capcom only said that it would be set in a dystopian near future, take place on the Moon and that it would make use of the technology of the new consoles, such as ray tracing, with a date of launch for 2022.
We didn’t hear about the game again until November 2021, when the game was announced. first delaypostponing its launch to 2023: “Our team is working hard on the project but, to ensure this is an unforgettable adventure, we have decided to change the release window to 2023.” Along with this brief statement, they published an equally brief new video, just 30 seconds long, which showed us the charming protagonist girl asking for forgiveness with a sign with the new date of the game.
And we didn’t hear about the game again until June 2023, when the game was announced. second delaythis time without a new approximate date, although this time publishing a video that showed its first gameplay, which made it more or less clear to us what kind of game it would be. A action adventure in which we control a astronaut soldier who has to protect a girl who has special powerswith which he helps us to eliminate the enemies, and whose action seems to take place, at least in part, on a space station.
Along with the video, they published a new statement apologizing: “We are very sorry to inform you that we must once again delay the release of Pragmata. The team is working hard to create the best game possible, but we need more time. We will continue to do our best to ensure that the final product is worth the wait. It was worth it. Thank you for your unconditional support.”
Will it come out in 2025?
Since then, almost a year ago, we have not heard anything about the game, at least not officially. The usual leaker of Capcom affairs, Dusk Golem, who has previously shown to have good information about what is happening within the Japanese company, said that the development of Pragmata had been restarted at some pointthat’s why it’s taking so long to arrive and in this latest delay there was no new launch window.
We hope that in the events held in the In the coming weeks we may have new news about the game, whether at the PlayStation and Xbox presentations or at the Capcom Showcase, as happened last year. Despite all these problems and the little that has been shown of the game, are you looking forward to it? Leave us your opinion in the comments.
