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The Reaper casts it's gaze at Capcom

http://gaminrealm.com/2013/09/10/capcom-152-mil-bank/

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According to GameIndustry, Capcom has a total of $152 million dollars in the bank.

To those who may not be so knowledgeable when it comes to the financials of these gaming companies, that is not a lot of money by any means. That�s actually a dangerously minuscule amount. To put things into perspective, Nintendo made roughly more than this in their 3 months alone. This leads to Capcom making huge changes for this upcoming gen, including an even bigger focus on DLC than before.

�I regret to say that, up to now, we had few plans for the full-scale implementation of DLC.� From here on out, we need to focus on the long-term provision of content starting at the earliest stages of development. Furthermore, in terms of user response, if the additional related content we are providing continually to users online is deemed uninteresting from the start, there will be no ongoing business to pursue. This means that, more than ever before, the creation of underlying content is the key to success.� - COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto

If we all thought that Capcom�s sneaky on-disc DLC practices were bad, well, it�s only going to get worse for now on. This could also mean that hardly and �exclusive� Capcom games will stay exclusive. Don�t be surprised if Deep Down comes to the Xbox One, seeing how Capcom is really in need of the cash right about now.

Even worse, of course, this is a next-generation transition. Going into the next gen with higher-budgeted projects and only $152 in your back pocket is very dangerous.

But in all honesty � and I�m sorry to say this � but I can�t feel sorry for Capcom. This is what happens when you nickel-and-dime gamers and sellout your most beloved franchises in the attempt of appealing to the masses. Capcom has continually betrayed their fans and have even buried their own beloved mascot, Megaman. They may finally get what�s coming to them.

Could this mark the beginning of the end for Capcom?

So yeah Capcom is dying now.

Monster Hunter 4 sold 1.7 million copies in two days.

They'll be fine.

Even monster hunter won't save them forever if they continue to piss off their customers.

Dead Rising 3 is also coming out soon as well, which is being made by Capcom. Also, I can't find any other stories about Capcom being in financial trouble.

They're a garbage company, I hope they do fail.

If that value is true, then Capcom possess a good $100m less than the entire production/marketing budget of some new car game nobody cares about.

I really hope Mighty No. 9 reaches the PS4/Xbone stretch goal.

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Originally Posted by Flarecobra (Post 1234590)

Dead Rising 3 is also coming out soon as well, which is being made by Capcom. Also, I can't find any other stories about Capcom being in financial trouble.

Dead Rising 3 has broken the base of Dead rising fans. Most of them enjoyed the extremely implausible weapons and the silly abilities rather then the new "Grtty and SRS" Look they got for it now.

It seems to me that the simplest thing they could do is buy some Fanmade Megaman games that are exceptionally well done. Polish them up a little and release them for a cheap price, say 6 or 7 bucks. BOOM they get a shit ton of money. They make a fan developer happy. They create a reason for people to build games for them almost for free to get their name in lights. They FINALLY do something with the blue bomber and if they want they can do it several times with multiple indy developers creating a indy initiative group that their company can just churn money off of.

Or you know let Platinum off their leash to do something freaking crazy again like anarchy reigns.

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Originally Posted by Doc ock rokc (Post 1234595)

It seems to me that the simplest thing they could do is buy some Fanmade Megaman games that are exceptionally well done. Polish them up a little and release them for a cheap price, say 6 or 7 bucks. BOOM they get a shit ton of money. They make a fan developer happy. They create a reason for people to build games for them almost for free to get their name in lights. They FINALLY do something with the blue bomber and if they want they can do it several times with multiple indy developers creating a indy initiative group that their company can just churn money off of.

MegaMan Unlimited got released not too long ago (bomb soundtrack), and this guy's channel is basically filled with exhibitions of fanmade MM games. It's baffling hwo Capcom has somehow managed to ignore every single one thus far aside from the iffy Street Fighter one.

They are going to take a good, deep look into Killer Instinct...

then... they are going to release Rival Schools 3.

But it only has 3 teams of 3 characters.

Every other team is DLC, $10 per team of 3 characters. They will release 1 team a month for a full year.

Plus $5 for costume packs for each team.

My seething rage will be burning white, brighter than the sun over the caslte of a thousand unreasonably enraged gods by then.

And the bastards will be rich.

Isn't Dead Rising 3 the one where they decided that the series needs to stop being fun?