Rumor: Capcom Europe to lay off more than half its staff

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ishiki said:

Xxain said:

badgenome said:
It's odd to me that so many people are anticipating the demise of a generally profitable company.

My thoughts exactly. Everytime a thread like ths gets put up, you can bet one of the first 10 post will be "Nintendo should buy them". No they shouldn't and neither do they need too. All thebig name Japanese companies will never go bankrupt. Ever. Just to conservative.

Like I put in my post above... people just dislike some companies, and that makes them irrational. Any bad news and they throw a party.

Here's a table of company's quick ratio taken from 2013 financial reports. It's more complicated then this, Revenue, Profit, etc is all important.

But the quick ratio is a good  indicator on how likely they are to go belly up because of their ability to meet financial obligations.. Despite all this bad news for Capcom they still made a profit unlike SE and Take 2. They made a profit despite having an underperforming year! (Though, both SE has had FFXIV: ARR be more successful than expected and Take 2 has Grand Theft Auto 5 which are not indicated from 2013 financial reports.).

Company	Assets	Liabilities	Quick Ratio (Higher Is Better)
Nintendo	16.3 Billion	3.5 Billion	4.65
Actvision Blizzard	13.4 Billion	3.2 Billion	4.19
Capcom	1.04 Billion	410 Million	2.53
Sega Sammy	528 Million	208 Million	2.53
Square-Enix	1.59 Billion	807 Million	1.97
Take 2	1.277 Billion	689 Million	1.85
EA	5.07 Billion	2.8 Billion	1.81
Sony	155 Billion	125 Billion	1.24

Good post. It's honestly hard to believe that Capcom can produce so many bombs without it hitting their bottom line, but they seem to have a good skill for "failing fast," as the tech startups say these days. Perhaps I'm overly pessimistic about their prospects.