Capcom Shifting More Resources Towards Xbox and PS2

[Blade]

What this means is that GameCube will lose Capcom exclusives, if anything. It will continue to get Capcom games.

Capcom is losing money, and they can't afford to give one console a monopoly on their games.

 

[London Geezer]

yea . its suposed to have a new engine . what one was the last new engine ? 9 ?

well i guess they had a kind of new engine for every shift of generation, so FF7 was a new engine and FF10 was a new engine, but Archie said that they still used old code from old engines for FF10 so i guess it's a *tweaked* engine instead of a new engine.... wouldnt know, archie would be the best candidate to anwer the question...

 

[jvd]

yea . its suposed to have a new engine . what one was the last new engine ? 9 ?

well i guess they had a kind of new engine for every shift of generation, so FF7 was a new engine and FF10 was a new engine, but Archie said that they still used old code from old engines for FF10 so i guess it's a *tweaked* engine instead of a new engine.... wouldnt know, archie would be the best candidate to anwer the question...

heh oh well haha

 

[Sonic]

Capcom has a fairly good relationship with all the console manufacturers from what I've seen. Their relationship with Nintendo is no different than it is with Sony or Microsoft. It really all comes down to what makes them money and what platform they decide that a specific game can make the most money on. Now their relationship with SEGA is a little bit different That relationship is a tad bit deeper and still continues to thrive to this day.

 

[Steve Dave Part Deux]

Capcom Japan already shot this one down.

 

[Cyborg]

Yup, another one down

Capcom responded to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun news paper and denied any major changes of their focus that were mentioned in an article. There won't be any ports of Biohazard 0, the BH remake or Biohazard 4. The company is not going to change their current Gamecube strategy

 

[Dural]

Yup, another one down

Capcom responded to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun news paper and denied any major changes of their focus that were mentioned in an article. There won't be any ports of Biohazard 0, the BH remake or Biohazard 4. The company is not going to change their current Gamecube strategy

But the article didn't say anything about 0, remake, or 4. The article said after 4 that the other systems would get RE.

 

[FiggyG]

I suppose Resident Evil online is an intriguing idea. But, trying not to ruin the fun in this, maybe it might destroy the feel for the game. It could go either way, RE has been getting very stale. Even as the game hit the GC, I looked away from it. Code Veronica was the last one I'll play (good old Dreamcast). Too stale for me. If online is fresh, that will be cool. But I won't be wasting any money on another console for quite some time. I'd rather build computers to play with

 

[Cyborg]

Yup, another one down

Capcom responded to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun news paper and denied any major changes of their focus that were mentioned in an article. There won't be any ports of Biohazard 0, the BH remake or Biohazard 4. The company is not going to change their current Gamecube strategy

But the article didn't say anything about 0, remake, or 4. The article said after 4 that the other systems would get RE.

?

Let me refresh your memory

Capcom is planning to reduce software support for the Gamecube console, the Nikkei Business Daily reports today. The developer and publisher apparently plans to shift more of its resources towards PlayStation 2 and Xbox, as a consequence of the GC's disappointing hardware sales in Japan and abroad. Also, future games in the Resident Evil series (beyond the already-announced Resident Evil 4) are to find their way to other platforms.
The Nikkei report offers no more hard data than that regarding how many games or how much development money Capcom plans to direct towards one console or another in the future, however. The move towards continued Xbox support is somewhat surprising, considering that Xbox games accounted for only 1.5% of Capcom's sales in the past year, but the company stated that it hopes to raise that figure considerably.

It was not only a question of the RE series, nikkei was saying that gamecube's support as a whole would drop, which has been debunked by capcom itself as you read in my previous post.

As for resident evil, think a little.. We'll be in the next generation of consoles by the time RE5 is even close to being released.. so how does that equal in "focus less on gamecube" ? Capcom's deal with nintendo regarding resident evil was exclusivity of the series for THIS generation, after Mikami is done doing RE games on this current generation, he can put them wherever he wish to put them. The deal was not about getting resident evil FOR THE END OF TIME to nintendo.. Mikami though, with his hate for sony, i wouldnt be surprised to see RE5 be on gamecube2.

 

[cybamerc]

Dural:

> The article said after 4 that the other systems would get RE.

Resident Evil was never announced as an exclusive beyond RE4. And quite frankly I don't think RE5 will come out this gen.

 

[CaptainHowdy]

Dural:

> The article said after 4 that the other systems would get RE.

Resident Evil was never announced as an exclusive beyond RE4. And quite frankly I don't think RE5 will come out this gen.

exactly, this article is a sham, mainly because what they are claiming will come to an end, never existed in the first place. And they certainly would not be shifting towards Xbox, being Capcoms main audience is Japan, I think that sums that up.

 

[Goldni]

it's pretty sad, i always had the image in my mind of Capcom and Nintendo being very good pals... maybe it's from the Street Fighter 2 days... oh well, i don't have a GC anyway...

You have my deepest sympathies. Man oh man at the games I'd miss if it were'nt for my Gamecube.

 

[Deepak]

To keep RE series alive, Capcom MUST NOT make sequels so frequently.....I think once in 2 years would be ideal....