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Yes 1,088 76.46%
 
No 329 23.12%
 
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Captain_Tom on 16 June 2014
DarkRPGamer007 said:

Should Nintendo buy Capcom? As many have heard, Capcom is now open to buy. If Nintendo jumped on this deal, not only would they get help making some first party games but some other huge game series would become exclusives like Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Megaman, and Devil May Cry. I think Nintendo should take this offer before it passes.


Honestly Nintendo desperately needs more first party studios.  Buying Capcom would get them almost everything they need.  Imagine if Ninendo launched a proper hardcore console in 2017 that had Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Devil May Cry, and a megaman reboot as exclusives...



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Captain_Tom on 16 June 2014
Mr Puggsly said:
spemanig said:
DogRemag said:
No.Capcom has millions of fans who don't play Nintnendo and their games have sold best on PlayStation.


That's literally the exact reason why Nintendo should buy Capcom. Nintendo wants people who don't play Nintendo to play Nintendo. If Street Fighter V was a Wii U exclusive, that community would buy a Wii U faster than you can sa-


I'm sure that's what MS was thinking when they bought Rare. Did that bring them a large casual audience? Not really.


Fair point.  Maybe Sony should buy Capcom (If they could scrape up the money).



Game_God on 16 June 2014
Captain_Tom said:
Mr Puggsly said:
spemanig said:
DogRemag said:
No.Capcom has millions of fans who don't play Nintnendo and their games have sold best on PlayStation.


That's literally the exact reason why Nintendo should buy Capcom. Nintendo wants people who don't play Nintendo to play Nintendo. If Street Fighter V was a Wii U exclusive, that community would buy a Wii U faster than you can sa-


I'm sure that's what MS was thinking when they bought Rare. Did that bring them a large casual audience? Not really.


Fair point.  Maybe Sony should buy Capcom (If they could scrape up the money).


Actually with all due respect, I don't think it's fair point at all, as said by a previous poster, what large casual audience the Rare buy out was supposed to target? Rare made by definition games for core gamers: Goldeneye, Blastcorps, Perfect Dark, Killer Instinct, Banjo, Conker, Jet Force Gemini, Starfox... & as said before when MS bought Rare, it was already a depleted shell of its former self, turning in a few years completly void of the people that made Rare.



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justgames7604 on 16 June 2014

i think nintendo has neither the resources nor time to keep capcom flowing as fans hope it should.



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alexesquedabananas on 16 June 2014

I really hope so but Nintendo does not have cash to spare :(



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Suke on 16 June 2014

Might as well since Monster Hunter is literally the only game that's making them money :/
ResidentEvil was a fail, DMC didn't last long...what else is there?



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Game_God on 16 June 2014
justgames7604 said:
i think nintendo has neither the resources nor time to keep capcom flowing as fans hope it should.


Money resources, they have, human resources you might be right, but hey, in every growth there are growing pains! If anyone can pull it, I think Nintendo is the best company to achieve it... Sony has other monkeys on its back & other gaming companies are too small for a buy out, they would fit better in a merger scenario & from what has come out Capcom would be more inclined to a buy out rather than exchange of stock (merger), they need $$ or in this particular case ¥¥!



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cusman on 16 June 2014

I don't care for CAPCOM as a company. I wont buy CAPCOM label games even if they get purchased by someone else.



Mr Puggsly on 16 June 2014
Game_God said:
Captain_Tom said:


Fair point.  Maybe Sony should buy Capcom (If they could scrape up the money).


Actually with all due respect, I don't think it's fair point at all, as said by a previous poster, what large casual audience the Rare buy out was supposed to target? Rare made by definition games for core gamers: Goldeneye, Blastcorps, Perfect Dark, Killer Instinct, Banjo, Conker, Jet Force Gemini, Starfox... & as said before when MS bought Rare, it was already a depleted shell of its former self, turning in a few years completly void of the people that made Rare.

I disagree, I feel the games Rare was pumping out on Xbox platforms would have been hits on Nintendo platforms. The Xbox audience was the problem for Rare.

Your opinions lead me to believe you didn't play the Xbox games or have nostalgia for the N64 era.



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Captain_Tom on 16 June 2014
Game_God said:
Captain_Tom said:
Mr Puggsly said:
spemanig said:
DogRemag said:
No.Capcom has millions of fans who don't play Nintnendo and their games have sold best on PlayStation.


That's literally the exact reason why Nintendo should buy Capcom. Nintendo wants people who don't play Nintendo to play Nintendo. If Street Fighter V was a Wii U exclusive, that community would buy a Wii U faster than you can sa-


I'm sure that's what MS was thinking when they bought Rare. Did that bring them a large casual audience? Not really.


Fair point.  Maybe Sony should buy Capcom (If they could scrape up the money).


Actually with all due respect, I don't think it's fair point at all, as said by a previous poster, what large casual audience the Rare buy out was supposed to target? Rare made by definition games for core gamers: Goldeneye, Blastcorps, Perfect Dark, Killer Instinct, Banjo, Conker, Jet Force Gemini, Starfox... & as said before when MS bought Rare, it was already a depleted shell of its former self, turning in a few years completly void of the people that made Rare.


I might agree with you that it was a bad example, but I think the general idea is worth discussing.  There have been several cases of companies thinking that if they simply buy a series, they will make money off of loyal fans.  However many fans will just skip the series if it comes in a format they are not accustomed to.