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Overall, has Capcom been the best Third Party dev/publisher for Nintendo?

Yes 12 31.58%
 
No 20 52.63%
 
Maybe 6 15.79%
 
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Capcom has been good to Nintendo consoles for a long time.
However, their support for the Switch has been a bit sketchy early on with the overpriced ports of 10+ old games.
Fortunately, we're about to see more original games like MHR and Stories 2.
If SFVI comes to Switch (alongside the rumored new RE Switch game), then I would put Capcom over SE as the 2nd most supportive third party developer on Switch (first is KT personally).

I'm a bit more disappointed with Namco Bandai despite having a few more original titles than Capcom at the moment.

Personally, I think SCVI should've been on Switch by now with an exclusive Nintendo guest character. I doubt its gonna happen now, but I was holding out hope, considering my history with the GameCube version of SCII.

Last edited by Kai_Mao - on 01 December 2020

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I'm not a Capcom fan.
My votes go to Rare and Square/Enix.

Dragon Quest 1-6, 9-11, ActRaiser, Illusion of Time, Soul Blazer, Terranigma, EVO, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 1-6, Final Fantasy Legend 1-3, Seiken Densetsu trilogy: Mystic Quest, Secret of Mana, Trials of Mana, etc... Plus all the other secondary franchises and later ports (which include games like FF7, FF8, FFX, and more)

Rare had Captain Skyhawk, Battletoads, RC Pro AM, Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Goldeneye 007, Banjo Kazooie, Diddy Kong R, Conker's BFD, and a slew of secondary games, they developed like 50 titles on NES, and rivalled Nintendo's first party efforts on SNES and even more so on N64.

Last edited by Jumpin - on 06 December 2020

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Nope, thats Title goes to Koei-Tecmo & Namco-Bandai



Capcom have bee solid other than the Switch.

Wtf were they thinking releasing have games on carts and half downloads?

They would have had way more sales if they did not pull that shit this gen.



 

 

V-r0cK said:

I agree Capcom has been very supportive with Nintendo since the beginning and it shows. My current issue with them is just their high price on old games for the Switch.

I forget what the term is called in psychology and business, but the high price point is for the suckers and diehards who are willing to overpay for those games.Then when they go on sale, it looks like you're getting a good deal, and your sense of urgency to buy the game goes up. On top of that, it gives Capcom free advertising for the games by keeping them in the sales catalog on the e-Shop and on the Nintendo website (and sites like Deku Deals), although that sales catalog is still entirely too bloated.

The true price points for Capcom games all along are the constant sales they throw out every other week. The Mega Mans, Onimusha and Okami go on sale every other week it seems like, and the Resident Evils, Monster Hunter Generations, and the Devil May Crys at least once a month. For Black Friday, they were all at least half-off.

I love Deku Deals. Not only for keeping up with sales without having to slog through the Switch menu or Nintendo's site without filters, but to also check price histories. I used to get suckered into weak sales early on, only to realize weeks or months later that I could have gotten the same games much later and with a better discount.



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Cobretti2 said:

Capcom have bee solid other than the Switch.

Wtf were they thinking releasing have games on carts and half downloads?

They would have had way more sales if they did not pull that shit this gen.

Every time I think about getting the Mega Man collections, I think about that BS, and it makes me change my mind. I'm not about to get cucked by a video game publisher that is trying to push me to buy things digitally through disgusting means like that.

CD Projekt Red can fit the entirety of The Witcher 3 and all of its DLC on one cart, but Capcom couldn't fit six NES ROMs and promotional material on one cart. Not hard to guess which one got my money.



If you lump together Squaresoft and Enix as one company, then I think it/they easily take the top spot.  It's not even close.  But if you count them as 2 (or even 3) different companies, then I'd say Capcom takes the top spot.  I'd put both Squaresoft and Enix, individually, as competitive with Capcom before they merged though.  Don't forget that in Japan, Enix was the most important third party for the whole 20th century.



I'd say they were. They've always been a favorite developer of mine and even now, looking at my Switch library, they take up a huge chunk.



They certainly were during the GameCube era - and probably up there when it came to NES/SNES as well. Beyond that though? Not so sure. Definitely not N64 or Wii U (but then again virtually NO third party studio was good with those platforms XD)



 

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Tough call, maybe throughout their lifespan Capcom are number 1 but my vote would have to go to Rare. This may be a silly argument but whilst Capcom and Square were huge for Nintendo they were also big in helping other rival companies (mainly Sony) which knocked Nintendo into 2nd place during the 5th gen.

Rare produced great (and mostly exclusive) games just for Nintendo and were vitally important in stopping the N64 from being a total flop.