Its not their death. Their games haven’t really been that bad now that i think about it, they could still comeback from this.
Hope they can. Doesn’t look likely. People already knew they were doing badly but not this badly.
They can if they stop being assholes, and instead make more games like Dragon’s Dogma.
Capcom are being far too quiet about DD2, which is infuriating because it was one of the best games out at its release, nevermind being a capcom game. They need to kick DLC practise to the curb, stop being jews and start churning out good titles again.
It’s sad because the game could have done a lot better if the PR for that game wasn’t completely insulting to DMC fans. It’s pretty much a guide on how to NOT treat your fanbase.
I got retconned out of existence for it, among other things. How do you think I feel?
They could have made Dino/Donte a completely different character in the same universe. They could have still called it Devil May Cry. They could have been frank and honest about their intentions of trying something different instead of trying to portray the changes they made as improvements. This could have just been a shitty spinoff instead of being an insult to everything I love about DMC.
All hail P*
I don’t think anyone’s too trilled for Ultra. Maybe if they make it for next gen too and release it between KI and GG. The rumor to do both Ultras would be a nice edition. And add more modes. That 5th character (Kazuya yeah I said Kazuya) won’t bring the hype needed.
RE needs to go back to basics. Just go back to Raccoon City already since you can’t keep it out of the survivor’s mouths every other chapter. Even though gamers already know the storyline, Wesker has an excuse to exist. And RE3 deserves a proper remake.
Megaman
just Megaman
Can’t really talk about DMC or Viewtiful Joe cause I haven’t finished the series. Can’t wait to play the DMC reboot and feel left down.
Power Stone, Saturday Night Slammasters, Rival Schools, Project Justice, Cyberbots, Red Earth, Star Gladiators, Final Fight Revenge, CvS 1&2, Pocket Fighter, all Marvel games, SF1, SF Alpha games, TvC HD, and a hard bodied from Akira all EX games released together in one pack just cause.
Capcom can comeback, I’m not really worried. They have a lot of games in the pipeline, they just need to cover the opportunity cost being in business.
SELL STREET FIGHTER TO NETHERREALM.
LOL.
Finally a Street Fighter with good story and single player, yay!
I almost hit agree for that first part but that second is far to obvious.
I think people overestimate Capcom.
I mean, the main argument towards making a Megaman 11 is that it’s simple to do. You find somebody with some talent (that cannot be that hard for any video game company) as lead designer, and the assets can be made for real cheap. They’re basically milking nostalgia so even though it’s new content it’s still going to be the same type of game as the last ten, so everything is a known quantity. It will sell a certain quantity, surely more than enough to make up for all of the cost, effort, and time.
So what? That doesn’t actually help a company like Capcom. Just because there’s no reason not to do it doesn’t mean there is a reason to do it. Just as surely as it will sell well, it surely won’t sell real well. Capcom is required by their investors to make catastrophes like RE6. Investors love that shit. Big investments, half of the budget spent on advertising, the game has a number on the end, to them this is what video games are. What counteracts this and supports the company are actual successes that create fans, like Monster Hunter. Relying on Megaman is more an effort in delaying the inevitable.
The games that keep Capcom afloat aren’t the remakes or the easy stuff. It’s the big budget games where the gameplay is still great and the budget isn’t THAT big.
Any prospects of releasing more games on Steam, such as Megaman 9, 10? I doubt that would help much, but I think its strange how they not taking advantage of the impulse-buy nature of Steam more often.
Do a silly reboot of Megaman developed by Platinum Games. Roll around in money. You can do it, Capcom.
Everything in the gaming biz when it comes to big publishers should be looked at through the lens of “are they like EA”?
What does EA have?
- Reliable money from annually-released games.
- IPs that people actually get excited to buy sequels for.
- A self-owned distribution channel for PC games.
- A strong DLC foundation based on 2 and 3.
Which of those does Capcom have? None of them, really.
They don’t have especially strong guaranteed income that extends into eternity like EA does in dat Madden/NHL/NBA. The closest they have is Monster Hunter, but its reach is so limited.
They don’t have a strong distribution platform like Origin, Steam, uPlay, etc. Tying into that, they, like basically every Japanese publisher, have failed to cash in DLC-wise in any way that I can think of.
Basically all their IPs are dead right now. SF obviously lacks the drawing power it did when SF4 first popped up, and TvC, SFXT, etc etc are all obvious milkjobs. The IPs that carried them in the PS2/Xbox/GC gen have all dried up with Onimusha getting ruined after 3, DMC getting ruined and Viewtiful Joe just completely disappearing from the face of the planet.
The two big new IPs they tried to vault off of in the 360/PS3 gen were Lost Planet and Dead Rising. Lost Planet has dried up since it was never very good and we’ll just have to see where Dead Rising goes from here.
What can Capcom do?
Annually released games are always a licensed thing (outside COD), whether it’s a sports game or whether it’s something like what Konami has going on with Yu-Gi-Oh. Can’t really peg anything past that.
The IPs that people want sequels for is always a “man, it would be so cool if they made a new…”. The obvious one is Mega Man. The should-be-obvious one is Okami. Dead Rising might be that sort of game. Breath of Fire has something coming out next year. Resident Evil will need a few years off before it’s a reliable draw again. They have a couple other things, but Capcom has never come even remotely close to a sort of answer to Mass Effect’s “omg i must have the sequel”.
DLC is something that Japanese publishers need to wrap their heads around. Great example is how you take all the (seemingly) post-game stuff of Dead Rising 1. We all know EA would’ve charged $10 for that and made a fair bit off it (Dead Space 3 and Dragon Age basically did exactly that in Witch Hunt and whatever DS3 has for for its current dlc thing).
Basically just need to get back to where they were 10 years ago in terms of coming out with strong new IPs.
Yes more Japanese devs need to cut content out of games to sell as dlc…
No, it’s that kind of dickery that killed SFxT in the first place.