Neh.. You'll probably will see a shift from them going from consoles/handhelds to social games and mobile.. Which is understandable when that market is bigger then consoles in a country like Japan.. Capcom already announced a lot of stuff for it

Well, if they're gonna be mostly on social platforms and mobiles, that's gonna be a radical change for them anyway, or at least I think so.

It's not death, it's being reborn without even dying.

well maybe if they released all their games on every possible platform they would make more money. but go ahead capcom, continue to be whores.

For all the young ones here: this message does indeed say that sluts are better then whores.. But ask yourself this.. Which of the 2 tests regulary for STDs with the money they get?

niether. porn stars do  

I've got them pegged as the next publisher to fall. It's between them and Square Enix, I think.

fall, as in...close the doors for good and sell the IPs?

Are you quite pessimistic about the 8th gen?...how big a contraction will the console market suffer?

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

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But you're not going to go bankrupt in those conditions. Capcom still saw profits last year as well.

Though they both are dealing with problems as you're goal is to get bigger while making money, not not go bankrupt. Layoffs are not always indicitive of a company in panic. Sometimes people need to be laid off because certain divisions are inefficient or flat out lose money.

Liquidation, acquisition, merger... they're all fundamentally the same. Rich company buys less fortunate company and strips out the unproductive bits.

I expect things to continue much as they have in the 7th gen. Blizzard was quite profitable when Vivendi decided to get out while the getting was good and sell to Activision. Eidos had fought its way back to break-even and seemed like it might be poised for profitability before selling to Square. THQ apparently had its back broken by one single misadventure with peripherals and couldn't even find a buyer without auctioning off the pieces. And now Sega buys Atlus.

Geez, I almost forgot about the Tecmo Koei merger. There's another vulnerable one.

I expect any contraction will be slight, but the lack of growth in home consoles means that consolidation will continue. Some publishers will die and few, if any, new publishers will arise to replace them. Most other media seem to keep this up until five big publishers are left standing. So I'm not so much picking losers as I'm picking the strongest five I expect to survive.