scooby_dooby
Legend
Founded by the creator of Final Fantasy, Sakaguchi, creators of Blue Dragon, Lost Odysey, Cry-On as well as a new DS RPG, seeded by MS.
Rumors swirl, Microsoft has purchased Capcom=debunked*
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Founded by the creator of Final Fantasy, Sakaguchi, creators of Blue Dragon, Lost Odysey, Cry-On as well as a new DS RPG, seeded by MS.
Rainbow Man
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I'm sorry I dion't quite follow.
How could it be good for the industry (as a whole) that diversity and competition is reduced?
While it would be nice if all games appeared on all platforms I guess (I never was a fan of platform exclusive titles) it's not really realistic. I can't imagine elebits being very fun as a 360 title for example. Nor do I think I'd enjoy looking at GoW on Wii..
Certainly only certain Capcom games appearing on certain platforms beats no capcom titles appearing on anything other than the 360. For the majority of gamers that is. I think most would agree to this except maybe the small minority who would rather see MS controlling the entire console market.
As opposed to how it would be by capcom being purchased to develop exclusively for MS.
..Err..
Well you may be right.
On the other hand image is one of the problems plaguing the 360 in Japan. Because it's a good strong platform that simply isn't selling as well as it ought to all things considered.
I don't know if buying up old traditional japanese developers is quite the way to go about fixing that problem. After all one of the things that is hard to buy is loyalty..
Peace.
MS could also buy EA too.
But the valuation of EA, and presumably Capcom, is based on publishing for multiple platforms.
So if MS makes EA games exclusive to their platforms, the revenues and profits of EA go way down.
They could take the big hit to acquire Capcom, it may or may not help them out in Japan.
But whatever they pay will be for Capcom as a multiplatform publisher/developer and what they end up with will be diminished in value. Of course that diminished value will have to be offset by greater X360 sales, especially in Japan.
Has Rare turned out to have been worth it for MS? PDZ didn't seem to sell but Kameo presumably did okay? But sales of Rare games for Xbox and X360 haven't approached anything like the sales of Rare games for Nintendo yet?
But the valuation of EA, and presumably Capcom, is based on publishing for multiple platforms.
So if MS makes EA games exclusive to their platforms, the revenues and profits of EA go way down.
They could take the big hit to acquire Capcom, it may or may not help them out in Japan.
But whatever they pay will be for Capcom as a multiplatform publisher/developer and what they end up with will be diminished in value. Of course that diminished value will have to be offset by greater X360 sales, especially in Japan.
Has Rare turned out to have been worth it for MS? PDZ didn't seem to sell but Kameo presumably did okay? But sales of Rare games for Xbox and X360 haven't approached anything like the sales of Rare games for Nintendo yet?
Rainbow Man
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Perhaps stating the obvious (don't hit me please
):360 market (for Rare games to sell to) isn't nearly as big as the Nintendo market was back then when Rare was at its best. This is particulary true as PD0 was a 360 launch game. Now that game is old and interest for it will be minimal by new 360 owners.
In a few years things will have evened out. 360 will likely sell more copies than SNES ever did. Certainly more than N64! Then we'll see what happens..
Peace.
Microsoft buying another studio, now that is a RARE thing for them to do. I would be carefull with doing stuff like that it´s RARE that they get those RARE AAA titles as payback for spending lots of money.
Why not buy Rockstar,Konami hell everyone except those where Sony has stocks would be faster and cheaper in the long run
Why not buy Rockstar,Konami hell everyone except those where Sony has stocks would be faster and cheaper in the long run
How so, Capcom's major IPs are mostly titles with international followings.
What ever value is lost by Capcom going exclusive is gained by the 360 platform offering well known games released for no other platforms.
Rare and Capcom are two different situation. Rare built its reputation working closely with Nintendo. One has to wonder if most of the great Rare/Nintendo games had to do more with Nintendo than Rare themselves. Capcom builts its reputation mostly without the need for such a close relationship.
One of the things Im wondering about is Flagship games co-owned by Capcom, Nintendo and Sega which develop a lot of the GBA's Zelda games.
"evening the playing field" to quote myself. Currently there's a unfair advantage in that MS is the only company without any sort significant presence in japan. Adding a company like capcom would give them enough clout to be considered a player there, and not just by the japanese companies only interested outside of japan.
Not when you can only afford one console once again, it's a good thing for 360 gamers as I mentioned before... This has nothing to do with MS controlling the entire market that's a stretch by anyones imagination. This is one company we're talking here not the entire japanese video game market.
Image isn't the issue in japan. development support is. It needs japanese games made by japanese developers. popular japanese games too.
You can't buy loyalty. providing the consumer with whatever interests them is how you build a loyal consumer base.
Iron Tiger
Regular
It would be good from an anti-PS3, pro-360 stance, but it sucks for Wii owners, especially those like me who were counting on some more of Capcom's 16-bit hits making it to the Virtual Console. And Resident Evil is a highly anticipated Wii title in development that would likely be canned. Capcom would have to demand a lot more money (for potential lost revenues) than they would be ultimately worth to MS. MS hasn't been making much of Live Arcade so far. I mean, they own Rare, but we've yet to see any of their IPs hit the XBLA. I'd expect the same from a Capcom purchase, and that's really not making good on the investment.
The expense of buying Capcom would damage the PS3, taking away DMC4 and RE5 (which wasn't an exclusive anyway), but they've still got plenty of exclusive IPs that can't be bought out, so that tactic could never entirely kill off the competition. I don't think it would be a good idea for any parties involved, and especially not for us gamers.
Hasn't hit the mainstream yet, so i doubt it
Bobbler you may be right about this one, it could be deadmeat and Co who are the sources http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5313282&postcount=276
Iron Tiger
Regular
Rare was allowed to work on GBA and DS because MS wasn't in the portable market. Even though the hardware doesn't seriously offer any chance of competing as a portable game system (no game-friendly controls, and priced way too high), MS is telling people that the Zune will support gaming. So I expect that will mean the end of Rare developing for Nintendo portables.
Perhaps they just got Capcom to agree to develop games for the Zune!
sf2 hyperfighting would rock on that thing!
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Perhaps they just got Capcom to agree to develop gams for the Zune!
sf2 hyperfighting would rock on that thing!
yeah, until you actualy try to play it. they need a propper dpad and 6 buttons to do it justice.
RollingBalls
Newcomer
http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_b...d=25304105&sid=6164175&tag=latestnews;title;0
Sorry guys, it's never going to happen.
Sorry guys, it's never going to happen.
I wouldn't say "never" ... goonies never say die [/80's]
As many pointed out in this thread, it didn't make a whole lot of sense financially anyway and I think they have learned a RARE lesson in the gaming business on how to get the most bang for their buck.
Fund a few great teams game(s) and leave them intact to do as they will afterward. It has worked wonders for them so far and I'm sure it's buying them some goodwill in the development community as well. I could be wrong as the ms haters are a pretty tough group to crack.