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Rafux on 18 April 2013

Hey Capcom next time hire Platinum.



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ryuzaki57 on 18 April 2013

Monster Hunter can't evade Playstation for ever... now is the time, Capcom.



 

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dahuman on 18 April 2013

You know, it's funny they say shit like decrease in quality due to outsourcing with a straight face when RE6 is a pile of fucking shit.



Train wreck on 18 April 2013

Its odd, both Square Enix and Capcom are the two companies who have shunned Vita development when they could have easily used the platform to smooth out sales from their underperforming HD titles, now both have massive restructuring incoming and multiple cancelled games and Square Enix not publishing titles unless its a guaranteed return.



SnakeDrake on 18 April 2013
badgenome said:
Mr Khan said:

That seems rather unnecessary.

Though despite Capcom's apparent schizophrenia (with one hand they summon more and ambitious New IP, with the other they rehash everything they possible can, with one hand they are fair to Nintendo fans, while the other punches us in the collective sack), they are still among the best of the third parties out there today, on the whole reasonably responsive to fans, diverse in their publishing portfolio, and (again, such a rare quality in a third party that it must be made note of) halfway fair to the Nintendo base.

There are worse things to copy than a game that cracked eight digits, and the Japanese take on dark fantasy has been really impressive in Demon's Souls/Dark Souls, Dragon's Dogma, and Soul Sacrifice. So I can't say I'm opposed.

There are still things to like about Capcom, and I can definitely see why a Nintendo fan would consider them an exceptional third party, but to me they seem to be over the hill as a company. The gaps left by the departures of Kamiya, Mikami, and Inafune haven't been filled by anyone. (Inafune in particular felt like a death knell for the company.) Ono is a phenomenally loveable motherfucker, but he's really the only personality they have left. Aside from DuckTales and D&D there's nothing they're releasing this year that I'm really excited about, and their earnings report basically says they intend to focus on games that will allow them to sell tons and tons of (on-disc, I'm sure) DLC. So I think things are going to keep going downhill for them from here.

So Mega Men gets the last laugh.



 

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badgenome on 18 April 2013
ryuzaki57 said:
Monster Hunter can't evade Playstation for ever...

O RLY?



Darc Requiem on 18 April 2013

They should have listed "trying to pass off Disc Locked Content as Downloadable Content" in their list of failures.



theprof00 on 18 April 2013

C'mon capcom, vita is waiting for some monster hunter, don't fuck up your own profit source.



Mr Khan on 18 April 2013
Train wreck said:
Its odd, both Square Enix and Capcom are the two companies who have shunned Vita development when they could have easily used the platform to smooth out sales from their underperforming HD titles, now both have massive restructuring incoming and multiple cancelled games and Square Enix not publishing titles unless its a guaranteed return.

That's the observation Nintendo folks make about pretty much every third party.

We all should just acknowledge that none of them have the slightest clue of what they're doing.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

NoirSon on 18 April 2013
Mr Khan said:
Train wreck said:
Its odd, both Square Enix and Capcom are the two companies who have shunned Vita development when they could have easily used the platform to smooth out sales from their underperforming HD titles, now both have massive restructuring incoming and multiple cancelled games and Square Enix not publishing titles unless its a guaranteed return.

That's the observation Nintendo folks make about pretty much every third party.

We all should just acknowledge that none of them have the slightest clue of what they're doing.

Pretty much, it isn't about supporting one hardware over another, the problems companies like Capcom and others are having is they try to compete on too many fronts, leaving them exposed when they have a large budget/marketing for games that don't preform. Literally the only companies that can survive in this type of market is EA, Activision Blizzard and Nintendo based on their big money software franchises.

Companies like Capcom, Square Enix (outside of Japan) and others that have big name titles in Japan which is a smaller market are scrambling to find their own golden gooses that can help them survive as development costs are raised out of control.