I think with Capcom, they copy far too much. Also, they bank off of nostalgia way too much as well.
Raccoon City was destroyed in the original Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, released as far back as 1999. Since then, they have done the bare minimum when it comes to moving the franchise forward. RE4 etc basically got on the action shooter hype train, while the second "Revelations" was their low and behold answer to "The Last of Us" (of which it copies virtually everything from that game). Then with P.T. and Outlast and similar indie horror games on Steam being popular, they copied that sub-genre with 7: Biohazard. Plus, there was the whole #FuckKonami thing going on in 2015 too.
We already had retellings of RE0, 1, 2 and 3 plus CVX, with the "Chronicles" games. However, some parts of those games feel silly, inaccurate and downright insulting to the legacy of the games they are copying. For example, they are designed as arcade shooters, so they are exactly that. Arcade shooters. They are not survival horror games. The "Outbreak" games, "Operation Raccoon City" and "Umbrella Corps" all venture into Raccoon City. Again, why even bother? Keep in mind, that some games are not actually canonical anyway. This hereby feels relatively pointless in of itself.
Now with the next movie and live action Netflix series, they can once again milk 1998 (because that's the era when the series was at its best). But is this helpful to the future of the franchise? Well, to me, it may seem mildly interesting if you're a fanboy that gets excited whenever anything to do with the series is mentioned online, but it's not actually really new, per se. They're just covering a time period that, to me at least, should be more or less done and dusted.
Why not do a game in Australia? You know? There's a future out there where Capcom could take the lore somewhere we've not had featured before. Capcom just needs to drop 1998 and can it with these garbage remakes. Remakes are not canonical either. The originals are the games that count as the canonical games, while the first remake in 2002 is canonical, because Lisa Trevor was killed by Wesker when the mansion was minutes away from blowing up.
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