Capcom To Allocate 20% Of Resources To Building New Brands

So it’s the corporate heads forcing the release schedule? Man, I felt pretty sad when I saw so much hate for the UMvC3 producer(?) during the GamesCom demo vids since I didn’t think he would be the guy pulling the shots with regards to release dates. Hearing this just makes me sadder.

A fantastic comment

as far as new products go dead rising and lost planet were great.

dark void and bionic commando sucked.

bionic commando rearmed was great!

Most fans don’t consider this V, and it didn’t have a number attachment. Most franchises that don’t add the number attachment don’t consider it a number sequel (code veronica for instance)

I’ll keep living as if that game never ever existed. Not because it doesn’t have a roman numeral attached to it, but simply because it completely shattered everything I loved about the BoF series, not to mention it pretty much killed every chance we’d get a sequel.

I’ll care about Capcom when they make Resident Evil back into a survival horror (Revelations seems to be doing so but I’ll want to play it to be sure) and when they actually give us a new entry in the Breath of Fire series that is worth of the name it uses :3

edited original post, should clear up what I meant

Which is sad. Nobody wants to take risk no more. People want sequels without consequence, but devs and pubs should know better than to ALWAYS give us what we want. It hurts them more in the long run, so why play the fool. Patience is a virtue, and the rewards are more worthy than the damned of haste. Cod saved themselves by bringing it to modern times, and although they sell now, next year, they won’t. Look at need for speed, we (generalization) demanded more, we got it, then we don’t care no more. Tony Hawk, NBA Jam, street fighter, gauntlet, all with yearly releases, now a nostalgia. It’s better to dream than over receive, cuz the Ssdd gets tiring, and the new things get overlooked when we are swamped with the same thing over and over again, then when sales go from 200 million, to 100 million, to 25 million, to 100k copies sold (each being next installment), they wonder why the fanbase has diminished, and we wondered why they keep staying the same. The funny thing is, how is that monster hunter and dynasty warriors continue to sell millions in 1 region quarterly (revisions, expansions, different consoles, etc) when new IPs continue to struggle world wide (this goes for CoD and other fps in NA as well) ????

From my understanding, they are releasing 1 big franchise per quarter, which is 4 per year, and by my understandings, they have roughly 8 franchises that are top priority (consoles). By doing that, every two years we get a new street fighter, resident evil, dMc, etc. My problem with that is that it give per title 2 years development time, and unless they get 50% in one year, then the next year can be split between current and future title, games will be half assed. 2 major titles a year will give more time for development per title, and gives room for anticipation, feedback, and quality. With the 4 major titles a year, there will no room for new IPs and/or revivals due to 100 man groups soley dedicated to a single series for a bi-yearly release (which is about enough time for a half decent game if high budget). With 4 years, said game can be uber quality, and if completed in two/3 years time, the extra time can be put into new IPs and/or franchise revivals. At the same time, with a 4 year deadline for the next RE like title, they can work on a smaller scaled title (mmlegends3, mmX9 vita, even bofV 3ds, final fight handheld, etc). I’m thinking longer development schedule, not releases.

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This is from another commenter

“how about some sequels to the IP you own like Chaos Legion, Darkstalkers, God Hand, Killer 7, Onimusha hmm????”

If they bring back some more franchises (like these), then their current plan (4 a year), can work very well for everybody, but because they are soley milking barely a dozen franchises, the 4 a year will result to bi-yearly sequels unless the few new IPs become hits. Unless they plan to bring back older titles, there will be no room for revivals, and they will definitely become the next Activision.

[whoa, sorry for the wall o' text, but get me going on Capcom and, well... ;)]

I dunno, I can’t really blame them for MvC3.  In a way, they’re being awesome about the whole thing by actually listening to criticism and getting back in there and making a better version based largely on direct communication with the hardcore fighting game community.  It’s practically impossible to make a great fighting game just thinking internally, you really have to unleash the high level players on it for a significant period of time – the community itself is what figures out the nuances of unintentional quirks of the engine, balanced rosters, creative techniques.

It’s not as if MvC2 was even close to perfect (just look at the tiny percentage of its characters that were ever seen as viable for tournament level play), the difference is that MvC2 got one flawed version that people learned to love, and MvC3 is getting substantial change coming directly from listening to the fans.  But people have nostalgic memories of MvC2 and overlook its flaws, and don’t give enough credit to Capcom really trying to make the “Ultimate” version of the game this time without making people wait years to get it.  Call it paid beta testing if you like, but I honestly don’t see it as viable to really perfect a precise 2D fighter without having that super-expansive “QA” session that comes from letting the community tear into the game for months.  And with the amount of content they’re adding, it would be more expensive to release all that stuff on DLC, instead we’re getting it as a new release that’s 2/3 the cost of the typical new console release (much like SSF4 was loaded with new content, and AE and its balance revisions are fairly priced or FREE DLC). 

Resident Evil… well, they DO try to do spinoffs to capitalize on the huge name they built for the franchise.  Some actually aren’t half bad (the Wii shooters are pretty fun!), some are more questionable (the new squad based game), and they still give us the more traditional in-house developed games too (RE5 and Revelations)

And I can’t much blame them for having Dimps co-develop SF4.  Heck, Dimps was founded by ex-Capcom and SNK staff with a great fighting game pedigree (including Takashi Nishiyama, who directed the original SF before moving to SNK and producing stuff like the Fatal Fury and KoF games).  They probably had better in house fighting game development talent than Capcom itself after Capcom’s long break from the genre.  It’s not as if Capcom just grabbed any old random developer. 

You see, it’s stuff like this that puts me off about today’s videogame scene. I understand this is a business and one has to think from a different point of view, but long goes the day where fans would get what they want, and companies would still take risks to give them what they want.

And most of the time, they’d end up getting some profit out of these risks. By giving the niche gamers what they wanted. Even tho they’re niche, sometimes they can really help boost up sales.

Or maybe this is no more than wishful thinking from someone who has been putting up with lots of disappoint decisions from Capcom or other huge video game devs/publisher companies. Perhaps it is, but it still sucks that we’re being stripped of basically everything that’s not a potential million seller (which in turn is dumbed down or simply looks like everything else that has already been made this gen.)

I think if it were called anything else, I still wouldn’t like the main character (lol, so not Dante), and some of the themes and plot sound tacky, but I appreciate how bright the visuals are and would be interested for that and some of the gameplay at least. But yeah, that may be true.

Ya know, I actually don’t like that guy (considering some things I heard of him and some of the things he’s said…and him always getting credited for MegaMan when he was only so heavily involved way later). But yeah, I’d really hate to be any of the guys at the top of a company like Capcom (well, now anyway). You gotta wonder what the disconnect is. Because they went from being a perfect company to me to just… A mess. A terrible mess. A little of it happened over time, but recently all at once, they just hit this bad point.

I hope they’re plan works though and they’re focused on pleasing the fans and not just concerned about pumping stuff out to make money first and please fans second.

5. Do not put locked content on disc and sell it as “DLC”