Japan Sales Week 50 Media Create/Famitsu/Dengeki - December 10 -16 2018

[wombat123]

Nuvendil said:

Medisti said:

Capcom aren't going to win any business awards (or much in the way of sales) for their handling of the Switch so far. The thing has been out nearly two years and the way the wind is blowing in Japan is pretty obvious at this point, yet Capcom is still dragging their feet. Have they released a single non-port other than Mega Man 11?

EDIT: I looked it up, and no. No they have not. Ports and legacy collections. Mega Man 11 is the only game that was released in the window with other platforms, unless I missed one.

And they couldn't even be bothered to put both Mega Man and Mega Man X collections entirely on their carts either.  Capcom is, hands down, the most disappointing 3rd party actively supporting the platform.  Obviously better than not being there, but not by much.  E freaking A has spent more development resources on the SINGLE franchise they have on the Switch than Capcom has in total.  The ports are just that low effort.

I'll give Capcom until the end of 2019.  If we don't get any substantial announcements/releases other than small budget games and ports then I'm going to assume that they have no significant plans for the Switch going forward and are all-in on the western console audience.  At this point, the most I expect from them is to designate the Monster Hunter B-team as their Switch-exclusive Monster Hunter team.  That's it, that's the best case scenario I can see in-terms of major Capcom support on the Switch.  The only way I see them doing more is if the Switch balloons into a DS-level mega hit and both the PS5/neXtBox flounder out of the gate.

Last edited by wombat123 - on 21 December 2018