what SRK have you been reading where just now the prevailing sentiment was “fuck Capcom”? I haven’t seen a nice word said about Capcom on this site for years
Well. Capcom pretty much invented the competitive FG. They’ve got that going for them, which is nice.
Yeah, and Nintendo pretty much invented character based side-scrolling platformers and look at all the pitchforks and torches aimed at them for far less egregious actions.
@pherai- One needs only look at the various game threads over the last few years to see all the Capcom apologists. They’ve decreased in number as Capcom as crossed line after line of stupid, but they’re still around… Ask ShogunZ & friends about DmC, for example.
I think games like Pitfall came out before Nintendo’s entries if I’m not mistaken.
Fun fact: Street Fighter X Tekken is half off on Steam right now and nobody gives a fuck.
People should stop saying Megaman. That franchise doesn’t sell. The sell of 6 monster hunter games can equal the entire sells of Megaman series. With numbers like that I can see why it doesn’t get worked on. USF4 is probably going to sell more than most Megaman games.
Highest selling Megaman game was Megaman 2.
1.5 million units sold in it’s lifetime
Monster Hunter 4(3DS)
2 million in a few days despite how glitchy it is and the angry consumers(Hell the game doesn’t even start for some).
Sure, more DLC. Worked for Call of Duty, right? HURRRRRR
Who honestly gives a shit? We’ve got Mighty No.9 coming, we’ve got Evil Within coming. Any good games that Capcom would have made in the past, they’re being made elsewhere. Who honestly gives a fuck as long as we get good games? Learn to play other fighting games, we don’t NEED Capcom.
I’m really sorry, but how does it get to this level? They CAN’T be spending that much money on advertising/promotion, because I rarely see a commercial for a Capcom game. What are they doing behind the scenes? Does every game they put out just cost an average of 100 million after advertising or something?
3DS megaman battle network game with customizable robot parts and multiplayer, as well as team battles
The sales this game will generate in japan will rival pokemon
Revenge…sweet jeebus. “Ba-BANG!”
Capcom always has an ace up their sleeve. The days of shutting down shop won’t happen… yet.
I think they should sell off some of their IP’s to companies who would utilize it properly though.
Was thinking about buying it, then read up about how fun online is and discarded the idea.
I think it’s the opposite actually. Before games were big business we got tons of creative games and IPs. Once the money started pouring in, we had all the MBAs with their connections muscle in and push all the artists and creators out of the way. We had the EAs and yes Capcoms running around threatening everyone, buying people out, and putting out anti-consumer business practices in the name of profits and their shiny minted MBAs and family connections.
Games are an art, not a business. Artists generally are poor businessmen, as are scientists and pretty much every contributing member of society. The creators are almost never business savvy. Their efforts are focused on quality and creativity, not maximizing the gain of cash and their own bank accounts.
Right now most of the good games are indy games and kickstarter projects. And Bethesda, who is a private company and hands out modding tools to the community for free, and just steps back and allows the fanbase to add content.
I’ve despised Capcom for awhile now. The only way these practices stop is if the market shows they refuse to put up with it. MS was going to DRM everything until the backlash happened, Ubisoft and THQ pretty much both went bankrupt for it. If Capcom has to go down, it has to go down. And then their assets can be sold and maybe actually go to people that care about the IPs and the art of game development.
Did you really just say video games arnt a business?
Where the fuck is my real Devil May Cry sequel that takes place after DMC2 Capcom? Where? WHERE?
Capcom can’t produce those kinds of games anymore. Hence this thread.
If Capcom wants money all they have to do is that RE2 Remake.
i’m just gonna stop playing videogames and find a new hobby instead… like… collecting stamps.
naw lol JK ! I do not care for Capcom so much nowadays really , so i guess i would be fine with them disappearing even thogh it would indeed be pretty sad as 99% of us grew up with Capcom games. Except for the Ace attorney games they don’t really have much that is interesting for me personally , atleast not anymore.
Lets think about this for a second…
Resident Evil [Downhill] - No Mikami , Mikami gone
Devil May Cry [Severe Downhill] - No Kamiya , Kamiya gone , lolTameem takes place
Onimusha [Dead] - No Inafune , Inafune gone
Street Fighter [Pending] - Ono lol , if Ono succeed make SF4 less shit with USF4 then maybe.
This list goes on and on really.
I been tellin these niggas since mvc3
Outsourcing the IP’s isn’t always good with the choice of developers eager to get MSoft tie-ins and being bought out in the name of new system like
I hope the terrible
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Dead Rising 3 doesn’t outsell the old ones that are actually good and not full of that, “we need to get that call of duty money” type scripted events, WHEN YOU USE YOUR WINDOWS 8 PHONE WITH THE GAME
Of course nobody ever knows the real numbers among “shipped games” for their website investor reports versus estimated numbers unrealistic expected sales quotas they are always willing to throw out there, even for the bad press since it keeps them in the news even when it backfires, and where they are using their profits from their big games like Monster Hunter that just prints cashflow, until we hear of actual restructuring, them laying off Combofiend or whatever, then you might have more concrete proof.
SegaSammyAtlusCapcom might be a cool Arcade company if that kind of merger happens, but even then that would be kind of like old companies having to downsize and be bought out, arcades are sadly on the decline, less risks, releases and support outside of Japan, and all that comes with that though.
Sega and Capcom both have the America branches making the decisions too? I knew the story about that with Sega, that persists even today and not so much from the Capcom side though I might have heard of that once or twice.