Yeah, I was wondering that too. Maybe they counted other consoles. DMC has 19, while there’s only been 5 I know of. However, each of those 5 spread across consoles.
Megaman has had like 100000000 different games/series since his inception. Niggas need to let that shit go and quit being butthurt over a series that was spammed to death
Anyone remember what the purpose was when Capcom released SFII in the arcade?
I seriously doubt they were trying to make millions of dollars like they are now.
Their goal went from “innovation” to “fan service” in 12 years.
They forgot what made them successful. Now they’re more focused on making money more than making games.
As an aside about the previous debate about an update for Marvel, if any of Capcom’s main fighters needs an update, it’s that one. Shit is becoming stagnant at a high level.
That’s probably it. I guess each console counts as a different title, since they factor into sales as well.
They count each port as it’s own game. Resident Evil 2 was released on 7 platforms and those 7 versions will count as 7 games.
Lost Planet has just as many games as Onimusha and hasn’t sold anywhere near as much and they continuing on with that series. Success is success. Who cares if it making RE numbers?
Yeah, that’s why I’m glad that Mighty No. 9 is in production now. I’ve given up on Capcom doing anything with him as of late. Capcom milked the cash cow a little too hard later on in the franchise’s lifetime, and they’ve made some absolutely stupid decisions with the IP since. Unless Inafune finds some way to recover the IP, the franchise is as good as dead.
trying to figure out what the other 4 onimusha games are.
LOL no.
They were definitely trying to make money. They just happened to innovate in the process.
Problem is, when you’re the innovator, there’s only so long before your competition catches up to you, or before you hit a dry spell as far as ideas go.
LP is a more recent series, and LP3 was massively bashed the moment the announce trailer was revealed.
LP3 wasn’t one of Capcom’s smarter decisions, but it’s more recent in the minds of the public than Onimusha, whose last game was in 2006 and didn’t do too well.
Last Onimusha was in 2012. It’s a browser game and it’s shit.
The only mistake LP3 made was being developed by Spark Unlimited. A developer that brought us two worst FPS this generation. LP2 didn’t even reach the company’s sales expectations and a LP3 still happened. If they can gaive LP that much leeway than a new Onimusha isn’t too much to ask for.
There was a time, not so long ago, that companies used to make new and interesting things for the sake of making them. Money, or profit, was a concern, but not the have all, end all of business.
Maybe you are too young to remember this.
Fuck a new Onimusha.
I need a new Capcom.
This one is dead.
Yeah Capcom needs to go back to basics and find themselves. Like how Rocky did in III when Lang properly pushed his shit in.
I’ll be 30 in December. I also have a more realistic grasp of business.
Money is ALWAYS the have all, end all of business. It’s why companies do PR, advertise, etc.
You know why SF2 made all that money? Arcades. That’s why Capcom could sit back and afford to take more creative liberties with games, leading them to become innovators in several genres. They always had arcades and platformers to fall back on.
Now, arcades are dead, platformers are barely making it, and video games, quite frankly, cost a whole lot more to make than they used to. Capcom hasn’t become some soulless, money grubbing company because they got lazy. They’re concerned about making millions of dollars because that’s what they need to make a profit after spending millions on game development, advertising, and PR.
When games are costing millions of dollars to make, you can’t really afford to stick your neck out like you used to. And when they try, they don’t make much of a profit (Remember Me says hi).This goes even double with fighting games, which hardly make as much money now as when there were arcade sales and profits to back them up.
No.
UMVC3 patch must cost 153 million.
herp derp derp
I’ve said similar elsewhere. I think the majority of people posting on SRK have little to no idea how the business side of things in the video game industry works. IMO it’s especially hard for the big companies who are caught up in the smart phone/casual gamer vortex which has seen gaming platforms diversify in type and location.
Because of the explosion of smart phone app thinking and freemium models the financial landscape too has also changed. Given that most people (though not all) are online, manufacturing, transportation and warehousing costs must be like a kick in the guts. That’s millions of dollars that could be eliminated, right there.
The other element, flowing on from this is that Capcom is a big company, they have a lot of people on the payroll, so what do they do? Cut them in order to keep the books in the black and let that talent go elsewhere? Do they stall for time until they figure out a better/more successful business model?
Video games and other content providers are in a state of upheaval right now and are struggling to stay viable in an environment that was primarily changed by their user base.
Do I agree with all of this? It doesn’t really matter. Personally, I’m old school, I like my physical media and 9 times out of 10 DLC is annoying and irrelevant to me. Fact remains the industry is in a state of shake up.
Hopefully, if any good comes of it, it will be in the form of smaller name, great talents and not just copycat mediocrity.
Everyone on this forum knows everything
Dosen’t take a rocketscientist to say that their latest games have been total shite , haha.