Objectively these are the biggest missteps Capcom has made in the past generation:
*Design decisions used for RE6 resulting in the subsequent decline for the series.
*DmC being made resulting in the subsequent decline for the series. Easily one of their biggest mistakes in the past generation as it caused one of their stable series to become unstable.
*Refusal to port games to other systems (ie. Dragon's Dogma on PC).
*Misstep with Lost Planet 2 but their misstep with outsourcing LP3 was a much bigger error.
*Making the new mainline BoF game into an iOS game.
*Poor decision making when it came to signing the license for the Marvel characters (game still sold decently well but the growth of the game was severely stunted past 2012).
*Poor design choices approved for SFxT resulting in the game dying out very early and met with mediocre sales
*Poor design and lack of effort on Bionic Commando resulted in the series going back to being dead like it was.
*Cancelling MML3. I would actually consider this the least of their missteps because they probably ended up saving a lot of money by cancelling it as opposed to completing it.
Pretty much all of these were supported by the constant downgrading of sales projection for these games. Capcom has officially stated that there has been a "decline in quality due to excessive outsourcing" is pretty damning coming from themselves.
In 2013, Capcom HALVED their profit estimation from £43.4 million to £19.4 million due to "revised" sales of DmC and RE6. This year resulted in Capcom revising the game's in development and cancelled a number of announced titles.
You can read about it all of that here:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...sourcing-has-resulted-in-a-decline-in-quality
Early 2014 looked worse than early 2013 although that is mostly because they didn't release any major titles in that time.. at least that's the reason that Capcom gave to appease the stock holders. It's not just early 2014 either,
their Q2 is shit compared to last year and IMO 2013 was one of Capcom's worst years.
Guess what folks... Capcom ain't got DIDDLY SQUAT to release in early 2015 so you already know the financial report for early 2015 isn't going to look good either. Capcom doesn't have many games in the pipeline yet so for the foreseeable future... they aren't going to be making big money.
So if they haven't done well in 2013, haven't done well in 2014 and they most definitely are not going to do well in 2015.... how can anyone interpret this as Capcom being in a healthy state? In business if you aren't growing then you are fucking up and Capcom is most definitely fucking up.
In reality the only two game series Capcom has done good by are Street Fighter and Monster Hunter. These two along with RE are Capcom's only solid money makers. Capcom has listed Lost Planet and Devil May Cry among their top 5 franchises but the future of these two series is uncertain.
I am no expert at this stuff, I don't have a business degree... but all of this stuff is OBVIOUS to any layman.
Come at me Enzo!