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What if Capcom makes their own console?

Do you think it's time for Capcom to make their own console?

  • Yes

    Votes: 14 7.6%

  • No

    Votes: 174 94.6%
  • Total voters
    184
yogaflame

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With so many great IP Capcom have, and so much success happening throughout the years, do you think it's time for Capcom to make there own console? With so many legendary IP, Capcom will have so many great exclusives just like Nintendo. Add to that, Capcom has a large fanbase around the world.
 
It would make absolutely zero sense for them to enter the console hardware space. They don't have the core competency, and I doubt any desire to maintain their own platform. They've done very well as a developer and publisher, and haven't been relevant in hardware since the arcade business declined. And in case you haven't noticed with the rest of the big 3, it's not getting any easier.
 
There's no way to really stand out and be different. The chips just don't exist anymore. When Playstation and Saturn were around, there was the ability to make wildly different machines. Now you really don't have a choice. You're doing x86 and you can pick AMD or Nvidia. I don't see how it differs from a PS5 other than the startup screen and the name on the monthly bill.
 
I think Capcom + Sega or Konami would be able to fill a console library with some great exclusives. But by themselves, I don't think they have the size.

But fuck it, I'd buy it day one!
 
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I'd be surprised to see the launch of any new console brand at this point. XBOX was already behind the curve when they launched and that was the early 2000s. Since then, always been second place at best. No one is going to launch a new console, let alone a company who's bottom line depends on their games being on as many platforms as possible.
 
I LOVE their games but I want to play their games on the platform of my choice, why would I want them make their game exclusive to one system?
 
I think you guys are overly focused on the power of 'exclusives'. Also on a new console being launched - no-one is going to launch a new traditional console. That ship has well and truly sailed.
 
ROE on a software business is way better. You'd have to form a view that you could build a platform to attract sufficient third parties that you'd start to profit on the clip you'd take on the store. TBH I think with digital libraries we have probably seen the end of new platforms. Epic had a chance but they fucked up building the community vibe alongside the free games.
 
The console business, in 2026 and beyond, is the riskiest and most expensivest it's ever been. Capcom is probably the worst company to make a console right now, because they would be making (pretty much) an RE/MonHun/SF/DMC player... and we already have four platforms that can do that successfully.

Now, could Capcom make a crazy little console like the Nex Playground? Absolutely. But Capcoms DNA would need to change to make that happen, and I just don't see them doing that given the success they're seeing with their current makeup.
 
I'm interested in a compelling/competitive 3rd console to compete with Playstation and Nintendo and I agree Capcom has great IP, I just don't know how it would work. They'd just stop releasing their games on Playstation, Nintendo and Xbox consoles so you buy their consoles to play their games (I would do this)? I don't know if they'd do that though. What if their console doesn't sell well? They just scrap the console and go back to being a 3rd party dev?

The lack of enthusiasm for Xbox with their multi-console and PC approach to releasing their 1st party titles makes me question how Capcom could succeed as a console manufacturer if they kept releasing their games for the other consoles.

I respect Capcom and their IP and if it could work I'd be interested, I just am not sure how it would work. Capcom vs SNK 3, a AAA Mega Man, Street Fighter 7, etc, etc all exclusive to a Capcom console. There would be hype, I just think the risk and likelihood of it being a Dreamcast experience (a beloved console but not commercially successful) and ruining relationships with Nintendo and Sony is too high.
 
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Sooner said:
Microsoft can't do it with infinite money and 100 billion spent on aquisitions, but Capcom could pull it off?
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I agree but Microsoft and Xbox are always fighting this "corporate money"/"lack of creative drive" image because the Xbox has Microsoft money and is led by Microsoft. Playstation (I'm not saying Sony isn't in it for money) benefits from this because in comparison to the Microsoft backing, the Playstation brand comes across as sincere in really caring about gaming and actually having creative vision and a real love for the legacy of the Playstation brand. I'm not saying that they should do it or that it would succeed, but I think Capcom's clear understanding of and passion for game creation would excite gamers more and be more beneficial to the success of a console than having a divisive gigantic corporation backing their product such as the case is for Xbox.
 
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LectureMaster said:
Yeah there's a RE2 arcade machine upcoming. But it's made by... Bandai?

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They already did it, the CPS-Changer. Was similar to Neo-Geo: a console in the 90s to play some of their arcade games. Obviously didn't work well.

Nowadays the AAA budgets are too expensive, so AAA publishers need multiplatform or crossgen to try to get as much revenue as possible to make them profitable. In most cases doesn't make sense for them to keep their games exclusive. Particularly companies like Capcom, who get over half of their (non-mobile) game revenue from PC.

The costs and infrastructure are too high, particularly now when stuff like AI is monopolizing and hugely rising prices of some components, and the oil crisis to be generated by the war to attack Iran very likely will skyrocket the oil prices, highly increasing the prices of everything (like consoles and their components and shipments) and very likely creating a big global economical crysis.
 
They already did, the CPS Changer. Did worse than the Neo Geo, but still pretty cool.

Considering Cacpom just announced something about amazing PC success. I'd say not a chance. the cash required to make a console and launch a console, they don't have.
 
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On topic: if there where a Capcom's CapsuleConsole releasing November 2025 with exclusives all through this year: RE9, Pragmata and Onimusha, while saving some previous games to launch exclusive in their console, like Kunitsu-Gani, I'd make a jump in my main console for the first time in 28 years. That's already more promising than modern day Sony to me.
 
If giants like microsoft and meta can't do it successfully, I doubt capcom can.

Although limited edition classics like Nintendo classic mini may potentially be successful, capcom have many old titles after all.
 
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it will sever their budget in the future, and no promise if they will RoI, it will be dangerous.
marketing for console is not cheap as well nowadays.
 
Capcom actually COULD make a Console, as an OEM for Project Helix. They could setup their own PC store on it, and focus on Japanese market. SEGA could do that as well.
 
Won't happen, shouldn't happen, there's only 2 companies / groups that could realistically try and I think only one of them could actually pull it off.

1. The Saudi crown prince
2. Tencent

Tencent is really the only one with the expertise and commitment to do it imo.
 
It has to be something to do with AI like generating plot or more levels, something creative and doesn't have to be sick cause it needs to be done professionally.
 
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Capcom wouldn't really gain anything from that move, and it would require a substantial investment to build up the R&D, support and manufacturing pipelines (we are talking multiple billions, at minimum). They seem to be doing very well as third party, though.

Fun fact: During the NES days, Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi was giving Namco favorable terms because he was worried about Namco possibly making their own home console. He thought that Namco were in the best position to do so and to be serious competition.
Fun fact 2: During the mid 90s (I think 1994), Konami were planning to release their own console. But it was cancelled in favor of Sony Playstation (Sony was already in the process of doing backdoor deals with developers, which hurt Sega the most).
 
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Why would you beg for more devices to play yr games, if you could theoretically play them all on one device. Thats something I will never understand. 🤷‍♂️
 
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