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Hardcore_gamer on 17 June 2014

I hope Microsoft buy them they will win japan if they buy capcom



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IIIIITHE1IIIII on 17 June 2014

Because this happened:

 



vkaraujo on 17 June 2014

I don't think Nintendo has any interest in most of Capcom Studios, only in the IPs...
This probably means the cost to Nintendo is greater, in the short term, due to employment laws (idon't know how they work on Japan though).

I hope for Nintendo too, but MS / EA are faster at this.



etking on 17 June 2014

I can only imagine a Japanese company buying them, Microsoft would probably ruin them like they did with Rareware.



Burning Typhoon on 17 June 2014
d21lewis said:
I'm not a shareholder so I don't know about anybody else. From where I sit, even though Capcom has made a lot of mistakes, a TON of my games are made by them. Hell, I just ordered Dead Rising 3 on Amazon yesterday. Capcom's franchises are still big names, even if they don't make money like they used to. Hell, whoever owns Street Fighter pretty much owns the entire fighting game community.


Major fighting game fan.  Tekken, Soul Calibur, Virtua Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Marvel Vs. Capcom 1 & 2, even Street Fighter III to an extent.  I hate the general Street Fighter series, though.  However, that comment speaks the truth and I hate to admit it.  Street Fighter X Tekken was the biggest disappointment ever.  I'm done with Street Fighter after that.  But, even still, the rest of the community can't get enough.



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Lyrikalstylez on 17 June 2014

But wii u isn't doing very well, those capcom Ip's need a better home



Mr Khan on 17 June 2014
famousringo said:
Xxain said:
There is a lot of misunderstanding in the CAPCOM. They are NOT up sell. They are NOT interested in a merger. All that was their takeover defense was not approved. That just means so douche bag can buy enough stock to have control over CAP's. This more of threat from CAP's investors pretty much saying "if you dont get your act together theres no takeover defense save you"


A fair point, but this does signal a lack of shareholder's faith in management and a certain cynicism in Capcom's prospects.

I guess I just find it strange to see gaming enthusiasts cheering for more and more publisher consolidation. Nobody seems to feel that bigger and more powerful publishers are bringing more diverse or compelling products to market or adopting more consumer-friendly policies.

This isn't even the enthusiastic consolidation of a growth industry, but the bargain-hunting opportunism of a saturated market. It's about destroying inefficiencies (read: diversity), not enabling new opportunities.

Quite. Mergers and acquisitions are often the sign of a stagnant market: companies cannot build new business so they merely consume each other. This is the process we're seeing now

Of course, all the "new entries" are happening down in the mobile development market, but that's still in its "initial bubble" phase, waiting for its own equivalent to the dot-com bust or the Crash of '83 before stabilizing.



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famousringo on 17 June 2014
IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

Because this happened:

 


The vibe I'm getting from the excited camp is that Capcom is basically creatively bankrupt already, so some buyer might as well salvage what they can and put the rest out of our collective misery.

Ouch.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 17 June 2014
famousringo said:

Oh how exciting! Capcom is for sale. Nintendo could buy them!

Apparently lost in the excitement is the fact that Capcom's shareholders have basically just said that they'd like to sell while Capcom's still worth something. They can see the end of the cliff, and they'd like to sell somebody else their train ticket before they go over like THQ.

This is not a good thing. If somebody buys Capcom, whether it's Nintendo or EA, that makes Capcom the first major casualty of the 8th gen. Or was that Atlus? They're falling so fast I'm having a tough time keeping track.


I called Capcoms fall long ago. If you watch Michael Pachter and Bonus Round on Game Trailers this was very predictable.



AZWification on 17 June 2014

Because everyone suddenly remembered that Mega Man is a thing!



                
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