In an article titled "Who wants to be a Millionaire", Capcom co-founder Kenzo Tsujimoto is quoted making the following statement:
"The chief difference between American and Japanese game publishers: In the United States, publishers are very successful – they're run by professional management. They focus on money, not making great games. On our side, we always operate under the assumption that there's a high possibility of losing money, but that's just our style. American publishers make games so everyone can play. The Japanese – especially Capcom – favor the hardcore gamer."
Anyone find this ironic coming from capcom?
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
That must be why they shut down Clover.
Capcom!!! hahaha. classic...DMC4?
I cant belive that they would ever say taht about american compnies because too me they are doing the same things right about now...Dead Rising and Lost Plant were garbage but still should be mulit..
I wonder how popular the non garbage games will be(6-9 million copies sold). You Sony fans sure do talk alot about DR and LP despite them being garbage it seems like LP is being praised and is very popular internationally.
i don't really like Lost Plant (yes i've played it)
but anyways, i have to agree with the capcom guy. publishers like EA publish garbage every year and sell millions. when they can't make a better game than their competitor, they buy out the license (2k sports anyone?)
the only hope i have left for EA is army of two, and i haven't heard much news on that front for ages