Original arcade games The
Darkstalkers series is composed of five arcade games and the home ports and compilations of those games.
Ports, remasters, and compilations Future Capcom producer
Yoshinori Ono said in 2007: "Personally, I'd love to make a new
Marvel vs. Capcom, and I'd also like to see the triumphant return of
Darkstalkers to a new generation of technology. It would be an interesting challenge with
Darkstalkers, because in the old games you'd see a lot of really interesting animations as characters would morph into different forms. That would be tricky to do with this 3D engine, but not impossible. In two or three years, if I got the chance to resurrect that series, I'd like to shock Hollywood with how good the graphics would look". In August 2010, Ono stated during an interview about
Street Fighter X Tekken that a new installment to the series would be his "ultimate dream", but only fan demand would cause it to happen. He went on to say that it would take one million requests before
Keiji Inafune, then head of research and development at Capcom, would comply. At that point, Capcom had received 5,000 requests. By March 2011, Ono reported that Capcom had received over 100,000 requests. He later expressed during an interview at a
Nintendo 3DS launch in London that "one day, if it goes half a million, Capcom may raise its eyebrow a little bit and I could do what I did in London in 2007 when I announced the comeback of
Street Fighter. In the near future, with your help, it may become true. It's on its way, because we're pretty much where we were with
Street Fighter a few years back. So keep it up". At the 2011
San Diego Comic-Con, Ono revealed during the
Street Fighter X Tekken panel that while a new
Darkstalkers title had not been approved, he reassured the series' fans that "
Darkstalkers is not dead". He then proceeded to take a photo of the attendees at the panel holding up their money to send to decision makers at Capcom to show support for the game. Later the following year in June, a message "Darkstalkers are not dead" appeared in a trailer for the
PlayStation Vita version of
Street Fighter X Tekken; when asked about it, Ono wrote on his
Twitter: "I can't announce about
Darkstalkers yet". Ono later teased the presence of
Darkstalkers at a panel for
Street Fighter's 25th Anniversary Celebration at San Diego Comic-Con in July. Instead of taking a photo to send proof of demand to Capcom's upper management like he had done in the past, he stated: "This year, you don't have to do that, and it's not necessarily bad news!", but refrained himself from saying anything else. Following the announcement of
Darkstalkers Resurrection at 2012
New York Comic Con in October, a concept trailer was shown during Capcom's
Street Fighter 25th Anniversary panel.
Darkstalkers Resurrection producer Derek Neal and Yoshinori Ono told interviewers that the re-release bundle was the first step towards revitalizing the franchise. Neal also claimed that Capcom is using
Darkstalkers Resurrection as a test to gauge audience interest in a new
Darkstalkers installment. There was no "Darkstalkers are not dead" line at San Diego Comic-Con in 2013. Matt Dahlgren, Capcom's new fighting game manager, said that because "
Darkstalkers Resurrection did not perform as well as we would have liked. You never know what the future may hold, but
Street Fighter is definitely not dead. There is nothing
Darkstalkers on the immediate horizon for sure". ==Plot==