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[antibolo]

Seriously now guys, if anyone buys Capcom it will be either:

1) A company not related to video games at all, which will not change Capcom much

2) A mobile games company that will turn Capcom IP to a f2p garbage factory

Best scenario would be a THQ-style bankruptcy buffet, but that's highly unlikely, Capcom is not doing badly enough for that.

 

[Bel_Air_Jeff]

Or Capcom. The investors want them to make more money. Being locked onto the platforms of one manufacturer wouldn't do that.

Well, that is not true at all. Monster Hunter makes loads of money and that's a 3ds exclusive. Imagine if all Capcom games had the level of focus and budget that Nintendo can provide.

All of those classic Capcom IPs would do incredibly well and Nintendo would be looking hardcore gamers in the eyes: I don't know anyone that would be able to resist a console that has Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, MegaMan, Monster Hunter, Breath of Fire, Dead Rising, Dino Crisis, Phoenix Wright, and Viewtiful Joe exclusively.

 

[StoopKid]

Lol I couldn't even imagine the rage if street fighter went exclusive to nintendo.

 

[Lernaean]

I support the Nintendo buying them scenario.
It would be a marriage made in heaven.

 

[oti]

Lol I couldn't even imagine the rage if street fighter went exclusive to nintendo.

The thread would be amazing.

 

[Nintentoast]

Nintendo would never do it because Iwata is promising investors profit for the next three years. Spending all that money on Capcom is certainly out of the question I'd think.

 

[Sandfox]

So one of the things Iwata said a few years back is that buying a company for their talent is a terrible idea, because those people will either be unhappy or leave. Even if you lock them in by a contract, people who don't want to leave there won't be doing the work you bought their skills for.

This is more me saying, companies that are buying Capcom for its talents will be buying damaged goods.

Even then you would still get getting a large amount of studios so you would probably be getting damaged goods but it would probably depend on what your looking for with the deal because buying a company like Capcom would still give you a lot of global capital.

 

[MCD]

Konami please.

 

[Aquamarine]

How long until they try to get it approved again ?

So it means that if Facebook decided to buy them, they could force them to make "Face Fighter 5: Oculus edition" ?

Here is the takeover defense plan:

Renewal of this plan requires approval by the shareholders through a proposal, and since the shareholders clearly didn't go for the proposal, Capcom has to wait until next June (the next meeting of shareholders) for shareholders to put something new into place.

 

[Ludist210]

True Story: I met Ono at E3 during his signing and asked him to port Ultra SSFIV to the Wii U and he laughed and said it's probably not going to happen. Then I said, "ok, then how about deep down?" Then he laughed even harder and said he's not sure the Wii U can even display Deep Down.

Buy Capcom, Nintendo. And cancel those projects.

But Ono isn't at Capcom anymore...

 

[EulaCapra]

Even though it's probably not in their best interest to be bought by Nintendo, Nintendo should still go all greedy for a change and buy them. But a "who's that?" conglomerate will end buying Capcom anyway.

I'm hoping another Japanese video game company would swoop in so Namco-Bandai-Tecmo-Koei-Sega-Sammy-Konami-Capcom would be a real thing.

 

[oti]

Ouya.

 

[Shanlei91]

How Nintendo treats third party characters vs how their own companies treat them. Give it to Nintendo:

Found this is the internet.

This is the best thing I've seen in a while.

 

[JordanN]

Valve should buy Capcom.

Steam would penetrate Japan.

Spoiler

But the games would be made every 10 years

 

[Mr-Joker]

Nintendo would never do it because Iwata is promising investors profit for the next three years. Spending all that money on Capcom is certainly out of the question I'd think.

But if Nintendo buy Capcom then they get to 100% own the Monster Hunter IP, surely that's an investment worth owning.

 

[AyaisMUsikWhore]

I don't think any of the big 3 will purchase Capcom but another gaming company interested in all their stock (See: Atlus).. We will have to see where that goes.

 

[Puru]

What about Kadokawa?

 

[smurfx]

But Ono isn't at Capcom anymore...

i think he still is. he's just done at capcom vancouver.

 

[Toxi]

Hoping that if someone buys them, it's someone who can organize their IPs well while retaining the talent and letting them do their thing.

Sony needs to buy them and bring monster hunter to vita.

pffffffffff

 

[ShockingAlberto]

What about Kadokawa?

I don't know that they need to buy a company. They're doing pretty well peeling the film off the niche/otaku market.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Seriously now guys, if anyone buys Capcom it will be either:

1) A company not related to video games at all, which will not change Capcom much

2) A mobile games company that will turn Capcom IP to a f2p garbage factory

Pretty much. "Normal" gaming companies have nothing to win from Capcom the company aside from the IPs. Capcom isn't exactly doing great.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Anyone who saw Capcom's E3 this year should've known shit was going down. Fucking abysmal.

Maybe Capcom had a terrible e3 so they could buy/keep a majority in their own stock if they needed to.
compared to a high in stock value which would tempt people into selling?

 

[Unreal Champ]

So what you're saying is that you're okay with Facebook / Oculus VR buying them, right? Gotcha.

I don't see how you got Facebook from my post but whatever.

 

[Hellraider]

What about Kadokawa?

What would Kadokawa want to do with Capcom? I get that lately they are being slightly more serious to get into the videogame market but getting Capcom would be a huge, huge step and therefore risk for them.

 

[Crayolan]

Lol I couldn't even imagine the rage if street fighter went exclusive to nintendo.

The meltdowns would be glorious.

 

[dezzy8]

Sony you know what to do.

 

[Krusenstern]

I don't know that they need to buy a company. They're doing pretty well peeling the film off the niche/otaku market.

Kadokawa bought From Software.
Maybe they're hungry for more, who knows.

Why do people want Nintendo/Sony/MS to buy out Capcom? Having Capcom games limited to one platform would be awful.

I would hate to see all Capcom games become exclusive to one platform.

 

[Ludist210]

i think he still is. he's just done at capcom vancouver.

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

 

[Novocaine]

Why do people want Nintendo/Sony/MS to buy out Capcom? Having Capcom games limited to one platform would be awful.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Kadokawa bought From Software.

Let me amend that, then: a multi-studio company.

They don't need to get in to the realm of AAA development.

 

[Nirolak]

Yup, I thought about GungHo



Well, it depends on who you're talking about. GungHo, seems to have some interest on the traditional market (Ragnarok Odyssey, Puzzle and Dragons Z, Grasshopper) and they probably have enough money to get it.

Nintendo buying Capcom (I don't think they'll do it) would be big though. They'll get a bunch of IPs that are really different from the traditional Nintendo stuff (Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter, Dead Rising...) that will help broaden their audience.

And Japan will be theirs as long as the traditional market survives xD



You must really hate Monster Hunter if you want SEGA to buy them.

One thing I should mention about GungHo is that they're majority owned by SoftBank, who is primarily interested in high margin titles.

I do think it's the right general conceptual field though. If someone wants 1200 developers and a bunch of at least workable IPs, like a cash rich, but staff/IP low company, then $1-$2 billion for Capcom isn't a bad deal.

 

[Hellraider]

Kadokawa bought From Software.

Which is like buying a beer 6pack compared to buying the whole supermarket that sells it.

 

[Stone Ocean]

Anyone who saw Capcom's E3 this year should've known shit was going down. Fucking abysmal.

Were they even at E3 besides for showing a trailer for a game that might not even come stateside?

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Sony you know what to do.

just buy Resident Evil(they already do the movies anyway), DMC and maybe Dino Crisis.
Nintendo maybe buy Megaman.

 

[spookyfish]

MS, it's time.

Rare, Part II

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Why do people want Nintendo/Sony/MS to buy out Capcom? Having Capcom games limited to one platform would be awful.

People hear that a chess piece has been planted on the board and suddenly want their favorite players to grab for it.

 

[CO_Andy]

Nobody's more hungry than Amazom right now.

 

[giancarlo123x]

Anyone but Nintendo. I can't imagine playing street fighter on something like WiiU with no community.

 

[fader]

hmm... no real interesting conversations yet so i'll try to start one.

What makes you guys think Nintendo should buy Capcom majority shares (ignoring your fanboy/fangirl dreams)? Don't you think that Nintendo are not doing as great financially (regardless of their total assets)with their Wii U system they are trying to breathe life into? Shouldn't they focus on their own financial gain rather than spending money on a company not doing so well and with the unknown of whether they would make profits for them? Don't forget, Nintendo also have investors they need to please and i dont know what their profit is for this quarter but i don't know how happy investors would be if Nintendo break the bank with buying Capcom shares.

 

[hipbabboom]

MS, it's time.

You want to endure 10 years of people saying MS sucked the soul out of the company while willfully ignoring the downward spiral prior to purchase?

 

[killer rin]

I can't agree with Nintendo buying them with their design philosophy being to come up with a concept or idea that's and fun then select a character to put in it. This method is why we are only now getting word of a Star Fox & Metroid games in development but what about F-zero, Mother series, and other's that have been drowned out because they can't figure out a good way to do a game. As their roster grows the choices and chances of seeing certain characters decreases.

I can see Microsoft putting the IPs to more use to as a leg up on Ps4 stronger hardware.

If Microsoft were to buy Capcom/The IP's, it would be so they could bolster Windows Phone and Windows 8 with Monster Hunter, Phoenix Wright and Megaman. Other than that though, I dont see them wanting to do it, no matter how awesome it could be for those customers.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Were they even at E3 besides for showing a trailer for a game that might not even come stateside?

They had a booth, but it was ports and already-released games.

 

[TitusGroan]

Why do people want Nintendo/Sony/MS to buy out Capcom? Having Capcom games limited to one platform would be awful.

Having Mega Man currently limited to no platforms is worse.

 

[Xpliskin]

These scenarios are kinda great:

1) Legendary developer dies, announcing the true start of next-gen (UT announcer: first- blood). Either by being bought by company X or bankruptcy.

2) Capcom rises to the challenge and delivers this gen's greatest games.

3) Capcom IPs are up for sale. Platinum buys DMC, Kamiya releases DMC 5, the world implodes.

 

[gngf123]

Why do people want Nintendo/Sony/MS to buy out Capcom? Having Capcom games limited to one platform would be awful.

Same thing happened with the Atlus thread. Quite a lot of GAF wanted Sony to buy them out and some members started tweeting messages to Kaz begging for it, while a few members wanted Nintendo to buy them.

I can kind of understand the Capcom one if only for MegaMan, since it is clear how Nintendo treat it vs Capcom. The rest I don't really know.

 

[Aquamarine]

Never mind.

 

[Kyzer]

More like how a third party company treats them since the game is Namco developed.

Definitely not Namco artists.

 

[Biker19]

Eww. Also, I don't see how ASW getting the IP would be better than Nintendo getting it unless your only concern is the game being on a Sony platform and you don't care about the gameplay.

Just saying, something like Street Fighter is a lot more fitting on a Playstation platform than on either a Nintendo platform or on a Xbox platform, because most fighters do well on PlayStation consoles & that there are a lot of fighting game fans on PS consoles.

Games like Monster Hunter, Viewtiful Joe, Phoenix Wright, & Rockman/Mega Man are more fitting on Nintendo's consoles.

 

[KojiKnight]

Seriously now guys, if anyone buys Capcom it will be either:

1) A company not related to video games at all, which will not change Capcom much

2) A mobile games company that will turn Capcom IP to a f2p garbage factory

Best scenario would be a THQ-style bankruptcy buffet, but that's highly unlikely, Capcom is not doing badly enough for that.

But option A still leads into option B which is Capcom's current plan (they are releasing a lot of their properties as F2P garbage).

 

[fader]

If Microsoft were to buy Capcom/The IP's, it would be so they could bolster Windows Phone and Windows 8 with Monster Hunter, Phoenix Wright and Megaman. Other than that though, I dont see them wanting to do it, no matter how awesome it could be for those customers.

sort of a pessimistic foresight don't you think? Capcom doesn't really have a great history with mobile games