Is Capcom the next THQ?

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After reading from this article @gi.biz http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...ooks-towards-big-changes-after-difficult-fy13

Capcom's annual report notes the sluggish performance of the all-important console market on several occasions, and it certainly isn't the only company to feel the negative effects of that slowdown. However its performance throughout this generation has rarely been more than solid, leaving it in a difficult position for the challenges ahead. At present, Capcom has just over $152 million in cash, which isn't much for a company attempting to navigate the costly transition to a new hardware generation and the company-wide implementation of a service-based infrastructure.
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Capcom doesn't look like its in good shape at all.

The amount of cash they have left is anemic and with no big sure fire big block buster hits left except for maybe monster hunter. Where does Capcom go from here? I don't want to lose another publisher however what can they do? Just play it safe and do Street Fighter, Monster Hunter and some HD remakes? Thoughts?
 
I really hate to think of such possibilities, but with every week that goes by, I can't help but worry about Japan's future in the video game industry.
 
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Capcom has been dead since 2010. Their IP's speak for themselves (Remember Me, Dark Void, Resident Evil 5 & 6, DmC, PS3/360 retail versions of Bionic Commando, the Lost Planet series, Street Fighter x Tekken, etc.), cancelling Rockman/Mega Man projects, let Keiji Inafune, Shinji Mikami, & Hideki Kamiya go, etc.

They're no longer the same company that we've all known from the 80's to 2009. They're fucking dead & buried.
 
Nah. Capcom has a massive catalogue titles. Monster Hunter 4(?) is due out soon on 3DS, Dead Rising 3 on Xbox One…

They need to stop making shitty games, outsourcing etc but I think they'll be fine.

Deep Down due on PS4 in February too, all games that would have taken money out of the pot but will (hopefully) put back into it.

I do think that Monster Hunter would have benefitted from WiiU/PS3/PS4/Vita maybe Xbox versions for the west but Capcom like to be exclusive so I hope it works out for them.
 
Capcom is a company that thinks they can play with the big dogs like EA, Activision or Ubisoft but forgets that the only financially significant franchises they have are Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and Street Fighter.
 
Somebody with better management will gobble them up.

Also, has a game company ever lost as much talent as capcom? The only one left is Ono.
 
Whatever. Maybe their IPs will be bought by people who aren't complete morons. I know the designers there are very talented, so it could be neat to see them go work for a company that isn't horribly mismanaged.

Capcom as they are now is a joke, and a shadow of who they used to be. It's a shame, really.
 
Duxxy3 said:
Somebody with better management will gobble them up.

Also, has a game company ever lost as much talent as capcom? The only one left is Ono.
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You mean to say Ono is the only person you recognize as someone who reads a lot of GAF. I don't think talent has anything to do with it.
 
Holy shit, that's all the money they have left?!

So......MS to buy them and get Monster Hunter to finally break into the Japan market?
 
I am looking forward to Strider HD, but for a company the size of Capcom smaller downloadable titles on classic IP's I dont think is going to keep them afloat. Maybe deep down or monster hunter online for service based games to get constant revenue in?
 
I like the comment under the article.

Rick Lopez said:
The problem with Capcom is that they are thinking like a publisher and not as a developer. I dont think that the people at Capcom are driven by making great games. But they rather analyse graphs and charts and sit on there asses all day discussing stocks, financials and corporate bullshit.

They are literally sitting on top of a mountain of great IP and they have no idea how to maximize its potential. They are too busy looking at american games and wanting to westernize there franchises that they cant see to potential of there own IP. The attempt at making Resident Evil another call of Duty failed. And as good as dragon dogma is, it doesnt have the character and charm of the breath of fire series. Dont get me wrong its a great game. But it feels dry and lifeless compared to Japanese RPG.s like tales of Xillia and Persona 3&4.
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Can agree with this. There is something very wrong going on at Capcom.
 
probably, after every fuck up I hope they'll realize their mistake but nope, they just dig ever deeper, never examining why things went wrong, they seem to embrace failure with glee at this stage, LP3 certainly feels that way
 
Capcom has made profits for something like 10 years in a row. I really don't see the connection. Even during that last fiscal year they profited 31$ million.
 
Doubt it... a merger would happen before full on bankruptcy.

in any case Capcom has many things going for them.

- Massive Library
- Solid Fanbase
- Brand Awareness

The problem with Capcom is that they're abandoning their formula for success and also complicating their games to the point that they're just not enjoyable (RE / DmC). They need to get back to their roots and create titles that made them successful. light hearted games that are easy to get into but harder to master.
 
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