Why did Capcom fail to establish a Souls competitor? I remember Deep Down before and then Dragon's Dogma 2 were being compared respectively to Dark Souls 2 and Elden Ring and then one of them was canned and the other underfunded.

You would think a studio as big as Capcom would try to establish themselves in such a popular genre more

What're the reasons that caused Soulsborne games to be overwhelmingly relevant and successful in the Action RPG genre, and what did other series lack to establish themselves that Fromsoftware figured out?