Nov 162020
Earlier this month, Capcom’s servers were hit by a ransomware attack that targeted a significant amount of data and information.
Now some of that stolen information has appeared online… and it includes what appears to be confirmation that we’ll finally get Dai Gyakuten Saiban in the west.
Dai Gyakuten Saiban, also known as The Great Ace Attorney, is a historical spin-off starring Phoenix Wright’s ancestor. It and its sequel were released for the 3DS exclusively in Japan.
Since the information was stolen from Capcom, I’m not going to link to the reports and screenshots that have been going around, but we should still talk about it. Basically, it shows a new Ace Attorney collection for the Switch and PS4 that includes Dai Gyakuten Saiban and Dai Gyakuten Saiban 2, with references to an English localization of the digital version.
(Screenshots suggest they’ve sidestepped any potential legal trouble by using the good old Herlock Sholmes fallback.)
Of course, this is even sketchier than a typical leak, and it’s possible these were old plans Capcom since scrapped. It’s terrible that this happened, and I hope they’ll be able to recover from the attack and find the people responsible.
If it’s true, however, I’ll gladly do my part to help Capcom out by buying a copy of that collection!
I will assume none of the information will actually come to pass.
I don’t trust cybercriminals.
I think it’s unlikely that the actual attackers would make up this information, so the most likely scenarios to me are:
1) It’s real.
2) It’s real, but Capcom changed its mind since then.
3) An unrelated person faked it and pretended it was from the stolen data.
#3 would be the most likely scenario if life emulated Ace Attorney…!
Haha, true. But I want to believe…
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