At this point SSF4 is just a dream match game with a few new guys sprinkled in.
really need that WTF button right about now
Capcom made some questionable decisions over the years.
But imo it went really downhill in 2012.
Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City (a true abomination), DMC, SFxT, Resident Evil 6 and I may be forgetting some stuff…
These games all underpreformed in sales for different reasons.
Upsetting Megaman fans, expecting a hd port of Darkstalkers 2/3 to sell absurd amounts.
I have no idea who’s running the place, but they need some brains installed.
I used to love Capcom, I grew up on their games.
But now… it’s a huge mess and recent titles like Lost Planet 3 are still quite bad.
I’m steering clear of their games since 2012, the only good stuff they did was Resident Evil Revelations and Dragon’s Dogma.
I like the way Kromo thinks.
I’m not going to pretend to have numbers in front of me, nor memorized, this is strictly perspective speaking.
Capcom is a B-Tier video game company right now. Plain and simple. They are recognizable. They have solid properties, some solid games, some glaring weaknesses, etc.
The problem is, the way the market has shifted, there is less and less room for ‘middle ground’. Success will be had on the AAA+ titles and success can be ‘scraped’ from small indie titles. Capcom doesn’t have the titles to consider anything AAA+…I mean there is Resident Evil…but that’s been worn down over the years. DmC could function as a AAA+ title, but the hype machine and development just wasn’t right for it - good game or not. Then on the otherside of the coin - the games that would move units via a low price, cost too much for what they are because of overhead. Making a game HD the way Capcom does (minus SFHDR) - just throwing AA on - is worthy of a $5-$8 price tag. Not 10-15…but they have mouths to feed. It’s something I’ve watched where I work.
Capcom has a few ways to move forward.
The EA way - continue with your traditional titles, but microtransaction that shit to hell. That will only work if implemented right though (PvZ2) and is best used on low priced to free games.
The Distributor way - buy up lots of small developers, scrap most internal development and pretty much blitz the market with tons and tons and tons of games. Not expecting a large profit in general, but the residuals add up, and the chance of lightning in a bottle is increased.
The AAA+ route - the dangerous way, but the largest homerun distance. DmC is a prime candidate. It’s obvious the interest is still there. Spend GTA5 time into perfecting it, expanding it, etc, and destroy advertisements such that EVERYONE will think they NEED this game to breathe. GTA5 is pretty much a video game blackout, every game that everyone was playing just ‘stopped’ as people scooped their copies and begun playing. CoD is the same way…what’s to stop Capcom from doing something similar with one branch focused on a SF game and one branch focused on a Vs Game such that they get a two year window to develop and release the games properly? Maybe invest heavily into an MMO based on one of their universes.
The “All in” route - give the fans what they want. Let them speak with their wallets. Make a Megaman HDR that composites MM1-9 into a single game. Beating all will unlock something special for a new Megaman game. Development cost would be ‘easy’. New verse game, the engine is there, the cast is partially developed with characters from previous verse games as partially developed add-ins (Amingo, Ruby Heart, Alex, etc)…it doesn’t have to be with a Marvel or other company. DmC with ‘Dante’. A Resident Evil ‘reboot’ with throws back to the original styling. Story is too effing convaluted.
The “Marvel” route - whore out properties in other mediums to generate revenue. Marvel makes money hand over fist in movies compared to what the actual comics sell. Capcom gave us a couple bad SF movies and some anime versions of some of their stuff. Why not a Devil May Cry movie? It could be epically bad…or it could be epically good. Marvel has like 35 different kids cartoons…why not a Megaman cartoon? Whore whore whore.
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You realize that the panchinko and mobile games are in-house and not out sourced?
road looking mad dark right for capcom im gonna admit, but they have to have that Ace in thier pocket
capcom going to be the first company that goes fourth party
Capcom will never really succeed unless Western audiences start buying Monster Hunter games in droves.
I mean, Cappy won’t have to worry about you crackers once China’s console ban lifts, and the localized version of MHP3rd or MHF sell like hotcakes.
If Capcom is in economic trouble then I think it is a sad, because I played a lot of their games on the Nes. But I agree that the company went really downhill in 2012. Capcom used to be my favourite gaming company, but they now make a lot of bad and disappointing games.
This is what they get for releasing DS:R instead of the Alpha games on XBL.
This was me, as far as Third Parties on the NES were concerned.
Except they were tied with Konami.
Konami, who, you ask?
crickets
The same thing happened to my favorite Third Party of the SNES Era, too.
R.I.P. Squaresoft.
Good companies die.
The only immortal seems to be the O.G. - Nintendo.
^Going further back, look at the VG crash of the 80’s that wiped out a lot of companies. Anybody remember Atari?
E.T. does.
SFxT is too godlike. Keep giving us more games like that and work out the DLC policies and I’m good to go.
Don’t release a new Mega Man though. No matter what new MM comes out, people will just complain.
His memory is probably failing him out in whichever desert they buried him in though
I’m pretty sure that they buried him out by Area 57.
For irony’s sake.
Atari… aren;t they publishing dbz games now?
Burst Limit was the last one Atari published. Namco has been doing it since.
Second video said it all. Their arrogance has ruined them.