Ace Attorney 7 Might Be Coming Sooner Than You Think...

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With the upcoming release of Ace Attorney Investigations, the return of Phoenix Wright doesn’t look too far away.


 

While everyone’s favourite lawyer has been off the grid since 2016 with the release of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice, the prospect of an Ace Attorney 7 seems closer than ever for fans of the franchise. Following the success of the port of the original trilogy on all consoles, Capcom has shown a trend of steadily putting every Ace Attorney game on modern systems with the shiny new coat of a remaster. These releases have included not just the main series titles, but also spinoffs: the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and the soon to be released Ace Attorney Investigations Collection. Both of these remasters include new games that were previously unreleased on western consoles, that of The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve and soon to be Ace Attorney Investigations 2: Prosecutor’s Gambit. When everything has been released, it poses the question – what are Capcom going to do next with the Ace Attorney franchise? A Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright port seems unlikely. There seems only one answer to the fans. A new mainline game is on the horizon.

 

Granted, this was an unthinkable hope until the Apollo Justice Trilogy was announced, but the recent resurgence and slew of announcements and activity around the games point to Phoenix picking back up the badge that he loves to display so much. Capcom have nothing left from their bag of evidence to present, and nearly eight years later, it is about time that the fans, old and new, got what they have been begging for.

 

How long will we have to wait? It’s hard to say, but if the recent releases do well enough for the project to get greenlit, I would think we will see an announcement sometime in the next year or two. And I don’t think anyone would object to that. Let me know what you think - is the sequel finally coming? Or am I just getting my hopes up for nothing. I guess we’ll find out soon.

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