There are no words of how excited I am for this game. RE7 has been in development for at least 4 years that we know of and it has the potential of being one of the best entries in the series along with RE4. It's essential that if they return the series to it's roots with real survivor horror elements, but it also MUST continue its deep on going story. On the bright side Capcom is at the perfect point canon wise to do this! The Revelation games are also huge step toward reviving the horror roots of the series.
The problem is fitting characters like Jake into this route is going to be a HUGE issue, if not impossible. They at least have a phenomenal selection of characters that perfectly fit with the horror atmosphere. Jill, Rebecca, Claire, Sherry, Moira, and especially Natalia are all great candidates for this. Even Chris can perfectly be set in a horror environment that make sense. The only one that is to far gone is Leon. He's way to trained and his mental state of mind is too strong. They would literally need to break the canon or make him fall and hit his head (like Chris) to make this work. Then again we probably won't see Leon again until RE8 anyways thanks to the odd/even dual storyline.
I VERY ****ed about the Devil May Cry news. Those games are great and DmC was fantastic, if not one of the best entries in the series. They have something so good going on for them.
As for Re7... It's an odd numbered title so perhaps we'll being seeing Wesker again! ^.^ Bring it you cheap ass dirty little bitch! The whole gang is waiting for you bang your ass to the ground! xD