The Death (& Return?) Of Capcom

[Spark Of Spirit]

All this retro Mega Man love is odd. But it would be particularly odd if it didn't inspire Capcom to make a new MM game, especially after Sonic's Brawl appearance shot sales of his games up.

Maybe Nintendo is considering purchasing the franchise? They certainly can't do any worse than Capcom is doing with it.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Modern day Capcom at its finest, people!

Basically, if a game doesn't sell super huge numbers, it's never getting a sequel. Nevermind if even breaking a million sales turns up the game a good profit. It's not enough for Capcom unless it sells over 2 million.

Also keep this in mind: DMC4, which came out in 2008, managed to sell over 2 million copies before DmC was even announced, yet they decided to still make that game over one proven to make money for them. Now that this game has underperformed for them, they consider it a failure of the DMC games in general (according to their own logic in that article), and this assume that nobody's interested in this or any other series that sells under 2 million. Never mind the 1 million+ people who already bought and played the game. They don't matter because that number isn't profitable enough in Capcom's deranged eyes.

Fuck this company. I hope that they run themselves out of business ASAP so that a more competent company can acquire their better IPs and actually do something with them.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

And, BTW, it's worth mentioning that Desensitized totally nailed it in his prediction (not that the rest of us couldn't see it coming, of course). He did put it down into words that exactly described the situation though. As he said, if DmC actually was financially successful enough for Capcom, then they'd respond by making a new game in that series rather than continuing the classic series. If DmC didn't sell enough for then, then they would just assume that nobody wanted anymore a DMC games, period. It's playing out exactly like that.

[Spark Of Spirit]

And, BTW, it's worth mentioning that Desensitized totally nailed it in his prediction (not that the rest of us couldn't see it coming, of course). He did put it down into words that exactly described the situation though. As he said, if DmC actually was financially successful enough for Capcom, then they'd respond by making a new game in that series rather than continuing the classic series. If DmC didn't sell enough for then, then they would just assume that nobody wanted anymore a DMC games, period. It's playing out exactly like that.

A prediction worthy of Michael Pachter.

Seriously though, this is modern Capcom. They need to be bought out before they put themselves so far in the hole that nobody will rescue their IPs.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Meanwhile at Capcom:

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[gunswordfist]

I want to see the Proto Man trophy.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Here are some bigger versions, if you like:




Imagining a HD Mega Man title with those models. *Sigh*, Capcom.

[gunswordfist]

I want to see the Proto Man trophy.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I want to see the Proto Man trophy.

It's not released yet.

[gunswordfist]

 

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Sorry, Desensitized. Manga Man 10 didn't get over 2 million downloads (at least not legal ones, anyways), so it's not profitable (even though an 8-bit game these days couldn't cost THAT much to make) and thus nobody wants to play Mega Man games anymore.

We should all just play the next action-packed COD clone that Capcom puts out. I mean, after all, Resident Evil 6's "excellent" sales and reception proves that's what people want, and that this is the right direction the series should go in. People don't want those OLD style games like Mega Man or games that don't come pre-programmed with a "win" button like DMC. They want games with less color, more violence, and that like to pretend that they are movies because that's what makes a story good. That's what we REALLY need more of, and Capcom is just the company to give it to us.

[Daikun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozeuwG9Wp4g

[Daikun]

Crisis Averted?

Capcom nets $407 million in profit.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Not for long, I'm sure.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

http://www.geeksnack.com/2015/06/12/devil-may-cry-series-wont-continue-if-devil-may-cry-4-special-edition-doesnt-sell-enough/

It's a wonder that Capcom isn't dead already with despicable business practices like this. Essentially, they are blackmailing DMC fans into buying this game if they ever want to see a new DMC game again. And yes, while I have no doubt that Itsuno himself did his best to make this the ultimate DMC game and a love-letter to fans, the execs at Capcom are absolutely terrible at how they are treating this.

In fact, let's recap: the original release of DMC4 is now 7 YEARS OLD! Of course, it did review well enough with an 84 average on Metacritic, and it is the highest selling game in the entire franchise to date, at well over 2 million copies. So, for whatever reason, Capcom somehow perceived this success as people clearly not wanting DMC anymore, and decided that the series needed a reboot from a Western developer....who had a track record for mediocre games.

After all of this "brilliant" decision-making, Capcom was rightfully shocked to see the game not meet their high expectations in sales, because of-fucking-course they would be. So then instead of going back to releasing classic style DMC games, they instead decided to re-release the reboot as well as DMC4 in the same year. But while tons of new content has been added to both, they have unnecessarily pressured both Itsuno and fans to make this game an unrealistically big success when it will only appeal to a niche crowd of hardcore fans to begin with.

They expect a 7 year old game to compete with the likes of other NEW big-budget AAA games coming out this summer as well, such as Arkham Knight and MGSV, and if it can't sell well enough by losing out to juggernauts like those, then it means that people just aren't interested in DMC as a series anymore.

That is literally Capcom's logic, here. How exactly are they even still around at this point? I really want them to go bankrupt soon so that talented developers like Itsuno can find a more respectable place to work for, and other companies can buy their IPs and actually fucking do something with them for a change.