Capcom interview - consoles and Clover

[Shifty Geezer]

Next-gen.biz have an interview with USA Marketting VP Charles Bellfield. The article's summary/intro reads...

According to Capcom USA marketing VP Charles Bellfield, Devil May Cry 4 is already technically impressive, the media is too hard on the PS3 and the dissolution of Clover Studios won't change a thing at Capcom. Click through for this lengthy exclusive interview...

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4009&Itemid=2

Nothing amazingly insightful in my scan of the article. I did like the tempered enthusiasm for PS3 though. As next-gen explain...

Bellfield also had some comments about the bad press that the PS3 has endured as of late, saying that Sony’s console shouldn’t be underestimated--during the interview he almost seemed giddy about the technical prowess of the PS3.

...and then Bellfield is disappointed that being a neutral software man now, he couldn't really talk more about the system. If the rest of the devs are excited about the hardware, hopefully they get stuck in and produce the goods early on.

Other than that, support is there for all platforms, and Clover at gone in name with 2 key members leaving, but the intention seems to be to continue the good work.

 

[fulcizombie]

He also sounds very enthousiastic about Capcom's relationship with MS and it seems that more great Capcom games, after LP and apart from RE5 , will be released on the 360.Another great gain for MS compared to last gen.

 

[Jon Brittan]

Not having time, while I'm here, to read articles like this, can someone quickly paraphrase what's meant by "the media is too hard on the PS3" please...

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Not having time, while I'm here, to read articles like this, can someone quickly paraphrase what's meant by "the media is too hard on the PS3" please...

They mean that the press are constantly bitchin' about PS3's faults, but he's saying it's a good machine. Like me you probably read that first as 'BluRay is hard to use'!

 

[Jon Brittan]

They mean that the press are constantly bitchin' about PS3's faults, but he's saying it's a good machine. Like me you probably read that first as 'BluRay is hard to use'!

Yep, I've got too used to reading poorly translated Japanese articles and was reading in that mindset rather than reading in proper English, for some reason I was converting it into "The Playstation 3 is a very difficult platform". Doh!

 

[MasterDisaster]

interesting

With regards to 360 and PS3 and Wii, I can say to you we’ve got some really exciting announcements coming up next spring and in terms of the content for those three platforms, we are absolutely committed to continuing the relationship with Microsoft as you’ve seen with Dead Rising and that you will see with Lost Planet.

Actually, it’s really interesting reading some of the comments that [Resident Evil 5 producer] Jun Takeuchi-san had told GameSpot about a month ago [answering] questions [about] the creativity and vision of Japanese developers in looking at a global market. He actually said that Capcom has made these mistakes [of serving too narrow of a market] in the past as well, and in essence we [now] look at the global market and work with all the platform companies.
But at the same time, the 360 has been pretty good to you guys as well. Are we going to see some more cross-platform games?

Well certainly you will see us support multiple platforms. Resident Evil 5, for example, that’s on 360 and PS3. And I think that’s a good example of the future direction of where the company is going because we’re further along with our time line now for DMC4.

 

[Powderkeg]

interesting

It's only interesting if you ignore the question and answer that follows that quote.

So Devil May Cry is coming to Xbox 360?

No, I was just saying, I mean, [RE5 is] a good indicative example of where we’re going in the future because RE5 is [coming] after DMC4. And we have announced that.