Yes, but those are long dead franchises, imo they listed only the living ones on consoles.
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Capcom lists six series as "powerful titles", includes Devil May Cry and Lost Planet
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Yes, but those are long dead franchises, imo they listed only the living ones on consoles.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Thanks for the info, makes sense when looking at all that I suppose.
I'll continue to hold out hope that Capcom puts out a sequel at some point.
Which is what makes me think they're implying they're not dead.
I mean it kind of looks dumb to go "These six are our examples of power franchises that make up our competitive advantage. Also, two of them are dead. By god we suck at franchise management."
I wouldn't put it past Capcom to do that, but that's not the immediate impression I get from the slides.
rockman zx
Member
Mega Man even more dead.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Lost Planet? Really? I mean REALLY?
Who is at capcom that has the big stiffy for that IP?
Who is at capcom that has the big stiffy for that IP?
No Mega Man on that list
:'(
It sells. That's all.
Benzychenz
Member
GAF can collectively buy the Mega Man IP and then endlessly bicker about what to do with it
Metal Gear IP is owned by Konami not Capcom.
Really strange that Contra didn't make the list either. Or Vanquish.
I still think conceptually they can make a good game with that franchise. It's essentially a third person shooter. That's a popular genre. The franchise has a lot of potential if they can make a third person game up to the quality that people expect from other third person shooters.
That's why it think they haven't written it off yet.
Joseph Merrick
Member
any sales numbers for lost planet 3? I refuse to believe it sold the missing 2.3 mill from that lost planet series 5.6 mill total, with lp1 as 1.5 mill and lp2 as 1.8 mill. there is no way.
No Mega Man on that list
Capcom had a completed MML3 Prototype Version, and they chose not to release that and say "sales weren't up to snuff" then cancel the full game, but cancel it and salt the Mega Man earth.
They want Mega Man dead in the fucking ground.
Hot Coldman
Banned
Ehhh... could be better. They just need the right talent behind it, and the sales will come. Cheaping out by hiring Spark is a poor showing.
This.
What the hell happened to that franchise. Sure, the spin-off and Dawn of Souls were weak but the core 3 games sold well, were well marketed and did well critically and commercially.
No idea why they wouldn't bring it back. 1 and 2 still remain some of my favourite PS2 games (the awful acting/story in 3 keeps it from that spot).
LP isn't either, no? If they did DD2 and pushed it right they could get in on this Skyrim/Dragon Age/Witcher money.
Which is sad, because it's their most interest franchise at the moment.
Plus they were really stupid not to release on PC, given how well Dark Souls 1 and 2 have made there.
I thought Lost Planet 2 (from the co-op demo) was pretty good. Graphics were nice, the co-op was sweet, the monsters were big and dangerous, but killable without too much frustration. You had the neat grappling system, and the giant weapons, and thermal energy, which might have been a little confusing to new players, but was a neat system.
Then again, the demo was just that, a demo. No clue how the quality of the rest of the game goes.
Sold, I should say. Lost Planet 1 and 2 did decently. 3 was a mess up on both hiring Spark and shipping it in Summer of 2013.
Hypereides
Member
I can't comprehend why they excluded Megaman. That's almost a sin.
I don't consider DMC and LP dead, they had relatively recent games so it made sense to list them, i don't exclude that new DMC and/or LP are in the works, but imo that's not an evidence.
I hope I'm seeing what you did there.
Also MML3 Prototype was digital distribution, so it wasn't even a "we don't want to risk printing a bunch of games on a title we're unsure of".
Triggerhappytel
Member
Wrong publisher?
Good point. No way did LP3 sell 2.3 million copies. Probably not even half of that.
Dreamgazer
Member
To be honest, I also doubt if Megaman is really a million copy franchise.
I remember X1 and X4 are the only titles that managed to get pass 1M.
No Sonic either.
Benzychenz
Member
My first reaction as well.
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
DMC5 with Nero, Uncle Dante and Daddy Vergil.
DO IT CAPCOM
DO IT CAPCOM
Hot Coldman
Banned
Generally I subscribe to the mantra of "you're only as good as your last game", but Lost Planet obviously has more widespread appeal and franchise potential, so I think it probably belongs up there despite LP3, yes.
How well will those sell?
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
Banned
I hate to admit it, but if they used DmC Vergil as a base and gave him Uncle Dantes complexity, he would be a god.
Just give Nero a couple more weapons. Revable nunchucks would be amazing. They could use crystals move set as a starting point.
Marvel
could never
I skipped 3 looked terrible.
R_thanatos
Member
The first 4 are givens . MH , DMC , street fighters ..it's not a problem.
however i have no idea who uys lost planet games
Hopefully capcom will focus on their porfolio to ouput MLORE fighting games and more original Ips
You'd think after so many releases and re releases , gyakuten saiban would be mentionned.
however i have no idea who uys lost planet games
Hopefully capcom will focus on their porfolio to ouput MLORE fighting games and more original Ips
You'd think after so many releases and re releases , gyakuten saiban would be mentionned.
Dreamgazer
Member
Despite the fandom, Gyakuten Saiban isn't really a 1M+/title franchise either (mainly an issue of it not being multi-platform.)
I can understand Mega Man not being there due to them not really knowing what to do with that series anymore and likely having trouble adapting it to modern times (MML was likely ahead of it's time actually, though I guess cutesy aesthetic + shooting action would've been a tough sell, EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING to someone like me that would prefer more variety in styles there), but Onimusha seems sort of crazy to just leave on the side as that's reasonably modern. I guess they just don't feel there's enough traction due to the setting outside of Japan (probably didn't help the games could get really corny) and that it was somewhat redundant in light of DMC's existence.
Even if Dragon's Dogma did well enough to keep investing in (it may have for all I know) it's probably still too young to call one of their "powerful titles." I kind of suspect it'd take off better on newer hardware anyway, that was struggling to be 30 FPS at all on PS3.
Even if Dragon's Dogma did well enough to keep investing in (it may have for all I know) it's probably still too young to call one of their "powerful titles." I kind of suspect it'd take off better on newer hardware anyway, that was struggling to be 30 FPS at all on PS3.
DMC5:Nephew Nero,Uncle Dante, Daddy Virgil edition