The Death (& Return?) Of Capcom

[Foggle]

Means it probably wasn't a good idea to make Deep Down PS4-exclusive.

Hopefully this leads into them trying to earn a quick buck by porting more of their old games to PC.

[talonmalon333]

You mean like this?

You know what's needed? A PC port of RE4... A good port.

They should actually do that.

[Foggle]

Yes. And REmake. And every Mega Man. And DMC 1/3. And God Hand. And

[Grave]

Yes. And REmake. And every Mega Man. And DMC 1/3. And God Hand. And

While I'm not a fan of Mega Man, but it could definitely get them out of a pickle. The other 2, I'm not so sure. The DMC fans are loud, but I don't think there are many out there that's gonna buy a game that they've already played (unless they are true die hards, which in that case, might be very small), especially when you already have an HD remake on both the Ps3 and 360. If we're talking just PC fans who has no intent on getting the 360 and ps3, I'm still not so sure it's a big crowd, at least big enough to bring in $. And then God Hand, you're definitely talking about a niche crowd there.

[Foggle]

TBH my mentioning of God Hand was more because I want it on PC rather than that I think it'd make money.

Judging by the Steam forums, there are actually quite a few PC-only gamers out there who enjoyed DMC4 and DmC and would like to play the first three games. It should be extremely easy to port the HD collection, so...

[Spark Of Spirit]

GoNintendo's summary

- revenue climbed from ?82 billion ($820m) to ?94 billion ($940m)
- the Digital Contents business accounted for 67.7 per cent of all revenue
- profit fell by more than half to $31 million
- Capcom's least profitable year since 2005
- 14 million units of games sold
- three releases passed 1 million sales
- Capcom expects revenue to hold next year and profits to roughly double
- forcasted 13 million unit sales expected from next year's titles
- Resident Evil: Revelations should hit its 1.2 million target
- Capcom has just over $152 million in cash
- Capcom plans to push for quality by bringing previously outsourced work back into the company
- plans to hire 100 new staff in each of its consumer, mobile and PC online teams
- stronger commitment to DLC
- the DLC ratio for consumer releases last year was 39.7 per cent, but Capcom managed just 14.1 per cent with its own products

"I regret to say that, up to now, we had few plans for the full-scale implementation of DLC. From here on out, we need to focus on the long-term provision of content starting at the earliest stages of development. Furthermore, in terms of user response, if the additional related content we are providing continually to users online is deemed uninteresting from the start, there will be no ongoing business to pursue. This means that, more than ever before, the creation of underlying content is the key to success." - COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto

- Capcom's online content increased 45.9 per cent to ?22.9 billion ($229m)
- this is expected to increase a further 22.3 per cent, reaching ?28 billion

In other words, Capcom Of Japan continues digging that hole.

[Grave]

TBH my mentioning of God Hand was more because I want it on PC rather than that I think it'd make money.

Judging by the Steam forums, there are actually quite a few PC-only gamers out there who enjoyed DMC4 and DmC and would like to play the first three games. It should be extremely easy to port the HD collection, so...

Yeah, it should definitely be easy, (and clearly speculating since I have no knowledge of Steam or the members and whatno) and while I'm only going by the results of Capcom's supposed remakes of the 2D fighters (that they forced onto people... Darkstalkers 1, Marvel vs Capcom 1? Really?), I just can't see them making the money they are trying to get, at least not through remakes (if it's not Megaman I guess).

All Capcom really need to do is listen to their fans. DMC5, Megaman, Capcom vs SNK 3 is what people are asking for. Give it to us Dagnammit

[gunswordfist]

Newest Mega Man game revealed.

Someone tweeted them "Where's Beck?" 

[Peanutbutter]

Here's one guy's explanation of how Capcom dropped down to only having 152 million in the bank.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RWTefnWlYE&feature=player_embedded

[Grave]

http://shoryuken.com/2013/09/12/capcom-fighting-evolution-heading-to-playstation-network-next-week-as-playstation-2-classic/

More of old 2D fighters no one is asking for. Not to mention the worst one of the bunch.

And yet Ono is trolling everyone again with stuff that's actually been asked for.

http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2013/sep/13/ono-might-do-rival-schools-3-has-playstation-4-projects-lined-live-everyones-hopes/

[Daikun]

Now they can't even afford to make a next-gen fighting game.

[Grave]

Yeah, I saw that as well, and it's unfortunate. I mean, here you have Double Helix with Killer Instinct for the Xbox 1 and Arc System Works with Guilty Gear for the PS4. Last I checked Capcom were more successful than both companies, and, yet now they are put in a predicament where they can't even afford to make the jump to next gen. I'd say if they want to dig themselves out of their grave they need to go ahead and bring Rival Schools and Capcom vs SNK 3 to the current gen now and perhaps even bring Megaman or in UMvC's case, make a game based on Zero because I just don't see the Phoenix Wright series bringing them out of the hole they are in.

[Spark Of Spirit]

That's what they get for chasing the AAA dragon. Capcom were never that kind of company, and they totally lost themselves this gen trying to be what they weren't.

[gunswordfist]

Mega Man can solve all their problems.

[Daikun]

Mega Man can solve all their problems.

If they actually TRY to do it right.

Which, of course, they won't.

It would also help if they DIDN'T cancel each project partway through.