Sho Nuff said:
Vagabond said:Capcom have gone through 3 years of losses, right? The higher ups seem to be pissed. the dev teams probably planned to release a good number of games exclusively to the Gamecube, but the investors and higher ups probably saw it as a couple of the larger titles that are only reaching a small fraction of the market. They've raised year end net loss estimates twice this year. It's crucial as a profit-making company that they take as little risks as possible now, most likely. Businesswise, there's no true fault with this move.
Grizzlyjin said:Am I the only one hoping Dante is a playable character in the PS2 version? That would be awesome. Make it happen, Mikami.
Bishman said:This day marks the death of the GC.
It won't matter. People will still buy it. Besides, they'll probably put some extra content in it to secure more sales.Eric-GCA said:What intrigues me is what kind of load times will we be talking about for the PS2 version? The areas are very big and detailed.
Lyte Edge said:So this means we'll see rereleases of RE0, RE remake, RE2, and RE3 on the PS2 now sooner or later. MORE MILKAGE GET
Nope. I didn't, anyway, but Nintendo is pretty much fucked in the third-party department.Vagabond said:People went into this generation amped to the 'fact' that Nintendo was so agressive in securing third party titles. Moreso than they ever were in the N64 era.
Does anyone have any hope for third parties on the 'Revolution' now?
Wario64 said:I dont know about RE2 and RE3 since PS2 has backwards compatability, but I wouldn't be surprise if Capcom starts porting the other two titles to the PS2
Jonnyram said:It won't matter. People will still buy it. Besides, they'll probably put some extra content in it to secure more sales.
Think of some of the larger games on GC, most notably Resident Evil. I'm betting that if Capcom was making profit then the Resident Evil games, Mega Man Collection, Viewtiful Joe and others would have been GC exclusive. However, Capcom has been in the red. Higher Ups probably demanded PS2 ports of the aforementioned games.Society said:If Capcom were exclusive to Gamecube you might have a point. PS2 received more games in one years than GCN has in its lifetime from Capcom.
Nash said:Nintendo at the moment is being fucked like Jennifer Connelly in the last chapter of Requiem For A Dream.
And it's Sony doing the shouting ...
"End to end!"
Vagabond said:Think of some of the larger games on GC, most notably Resident Evil. I'm betting that if Capcom was making profit then the Resident Evil games, Mega Man Collection, Viewtiful Joe and others would have been GC exclusive. However, Capcom has been in the red. Higher Ups probably demanded PS2 ports of the aforementioned games.
Mikami:
The only thing I can tell you now is Resident Evil 4 will definitely release only on GameCube, not on another console, if it happens, I will cut my head off.
solarplexus said:
Mikami:
The only thing I can tell you now is Resident Evil 4 will definitely release only on GameCube, not on another console, if it happens, I will cut my head off.
Redbeard said:![]()
"I figure we have this much time left."
Vagabond said:Think of some of the larger games on GC, most notably Resident Evil. I'm betting that if Capcom was making profit then the Resident Evil games, Mega Man Collection, Viewtiful Joe and others would have been GC exclusive. However, Capcom has been in the red. Higher Ups probably demanded PS2 ports of the aforementioned games.
I'm sure there'll be a few GC fans who will be happy to do the honours for himLink316 said:
Link316 said:
The funniest part is that those are probably PS2 fans.Lemurnator said:First poster and thread sum the Nintendo fan mentality up quite nicely.
Mikami:
The only thing I can tell you now is Resident Evil 4 will definitely release only on GameCube, not on another console, if it happens, I will cut my head off.
-=::[Eagle-Vision]::=- said:
:lolLemurnator said:![]()
First poster and thread sum the Nintendo fan mentality up quite nicely.
From what I understand, Microsoft totally paid for Steel Battalion. No idea on Dino Crisis 3, though. The fact that MS basically footed the entire bill for Steel Battalion and it's sequel adds fuel to the reported deal of Steel Battalion being handed back to Microsoft/Bungie. IIRC, Microsoft gave Capcom funding to cook up the game for Xbox Japanese launch, included online modes and all. When Capcom gave back their estimates on what time it'd take to complete the game, Microsoft cut funding down and Capcom had to splint the game into 2 parts, online and off.. Still, to reach 50K for a game that costs 150K is pretty good, IMO.Soul4ger said:I can't help but wonder if games like Steel Battalion and other Xbox games weren't responsible for some of that, though...
But Capcom really did cut the Xbox fat, so to speak. Maybe none of their games are doing exceptionally well. I can't imagine that Onimusha 3 sold up to expectations, when it was the recipient of a price cut like three weeks after its release.
VJ not taxing? I don't think so. The game has it's share of very impressive visuals. It might be taxing in different ways than RE4, but cell shading with self shadowing and all those crazy effects in VJ, is no easy task for any console. It could have *easily* happened that the port would suck ass, if it was handed to a less capable developer.Yeah, but they were stupid. VJ is hardly taxing
They are really minimal, though. If RE4 would have the same kind of minimal level of shortcomings, I'd be pleasantly surprised.(though the PS2 version still has its shortcomings).
solarplexus said:
Musashi Wins! said:OMG...can I tell you how many people come into the gamestore and that's the only Nintendo game beside Zelda that they talk about wanting to play? And how their going to react to knowing they'll be playing it on PS2? What is with this timing....
Jesus, someone turn out the lights, the GC situation is getting flat out ugly.
Jonnyram said:It won't matter. People will still buy it. Besides, they'll probably put some extra content in it to secure more sales.
Father_Brain said:While this is obviously bad news for GC, I don't see how GC is significantly more "doomed" than it was a few hours ago. I really don't think it would have had that big an impact on hardware sales.