Inafune Was Spot On, Capcom Are A Sequels Machine

After holding a seminar at a Japanese university recently, Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune shared some rather interesting information about his former company, Capcom. He claimed that Capcom were only interested in producing sequels and they had a mantra whereby 70-80 percent of all games they made had to come under that umbrella. This was backed up with the revelation that Dead Rising and Lost Planet were initially rejected by Capcom as viable projects.

[Dart89]

Damn no wonder he left but seriously capcom needs new ips and needs to stop milking their games.

[a_bro]

its not that they should milk their games, its that their executive department needs to get fired.

[EYEamNUMBER1]

they announced 2 new ips just a while back
do people expect them to release new IP after new IP?

especially after everyone didn't buy some of their other new IP's

[Knushwood Butt]

They do milk way too much, but there are some new IPs too.

Last Ranker for PSP (although it didn't do so well. Looked OK though)

Asura's Wrath is another upcoming one. Doesn't particularly interest me, but new IP regardless.

[Misterhbk]

Not trying to defend capcom in any way, but the amazing looking Dragons Dogma says hello.

[Dart89]

Yea i'll give it to them for that but seriously i would like for them to stop making different versions of sf and focus more on new ips and for the love of god stop dlc milking.

@ below Hmm maybe.

[wwm0nkey]

The only game that should be milked is the Monster Hunter series. Still waiting on the PS3/360 MH game :(

[Myst]

Frontier needs localization >:( that's really all we need now.

[SixTwoTwo]

With the NGP coming soon maybe we'll get lucky and get a NGP/PS3 Monster Hunter...

[Venoxn4g]

asura's wrath looks good too ..new IP

[Hardedge]

I think most companies fall into this trap. It's not just Capcom.

[mephman]

Yea, but Capcom do it with no shame :p. They don't even bother adding new numbers to games. We're almost up to our fourth Street Fighter IV in 3 years, and we've now got a ton of Dead Rising 2 games.

[ThePsychoGamer]

isn't Inafune currently working on Neptune 2...

[Knushwood Butt]

Maybe, but at least Neptune was a fringe new IP that did well.

[MintBerryCrunch]

go to sega, with games like vanquish and bayonetta...im pretty sure they would let him experiment with his artistic ideas

[macky301]

well, that is ture,.. and he is a sadist.

@MintBerryCrunch; people hate on Sega for whatever reason( mostly team Sonic),.. I think they published some of most compelling titles this gen,.. Was just looking at the third party titles I got,.. A lot of shit that is pretty good, is Sega's,..

[Der_Kommandant]

More like...

a DLC machine

[TheLastGuardian2010]

Kinda confused by this statement.

Capcom said there returning to creating new ips, while at the same time supporting major franchises.

I mean Dragons Dogma looks epic, which is a new ip. Then Street Fighter X Tekken, then Asuras Wrath. Capcom also said they have a few more new ips in the pipeline as well.

So personally I find this statement by Inafune to be a little misjust.

[jc48573]

....
you gotta thank Inafune for that. He broke the rules so many times that Capcom began to realize their mistakes.

[Raider69]

Asura wrath its not made by Capcom,its CIBERCONNECT 2 IP, and Capcom is only publishing!Capcom dont own any rights so ever on Asura Wrath IP!

[Shok]

Let's be real people: We complain when we DONT get sequels of our favorite games.

And you people do realize that if companies just made new IP after new IP and no sequels, they wouldn't make as much money right? Cause they wouldn't be able to create an established franchise with an establish userbase.

COD is pretty ridiculous though lol.

[TheLastGuardian2010]

Basically. For the most part it's based on 2 factors.

1. This economy has not been kind on the videogame industry, and thus have made many studios and publishers to shut down. Creating a AAA title requires millions of dollars, and most studios NEED a solid publisher to back them up. Most cases, publishers want to go with the sequel since you know you already have an ESTABLISHED fan base, so you don't fear losing profit.

2. New ips=risk. More times than not new ip's tend to fail compared to big blockbuster sequels. Publishers don't like that, and would rather publish Call of Duty 21, than make a new fresh ip, that may or may not do good.

[supremacy]

You may have point but in the same token too much of Something isn't good either. Google guitar hero and see what i am talking about.

Capcom is no different from many of the companies out there, they are simply following protocol if you want to call it that.

What Activision has in call if duties and hero,Capcom has in zombies and street fighter games.

And it goes on and on until people grow tired of the same old same and move on. Its as simple as that really.

My personal feeling towards this is as long as you introduce new elements to a franchise that only redefines it but also keeps it fresh then ill be more than happy to continue to support it, but if its the exact same thing from top to bottom than to me i will start dying unless theres a good story to support its purchase.

But other than that, it would be nice to try and introduce a fresh ip every other year such Sony and yes EA have been doing for the past couple of years with them infamous and dead space.

It doesnt hurt to try just saying...

[dragonknight4]

Only part of the blame goes to Capcom. The rest of the blame goes to the consumers who keep buying these sequels. Vote with your wallets people.

[Xof]

When did Capcom become plural?

[meganick]

It's a very common mistake. Companies (or any group) should be treated as singular.

[otacon68]

There is nothing wrong with sequels, but they should create more new IPs

[meganick]

You know who else is a sequels machine? Damn near every other developer/publisher as well.

[lizard81288]

Capcom is my favorite 3d party, but they do need to stop it with the DLC. its getting annoying...and expensive. on top of that, they want us to pay for a demo of MML3. >_> don't they make enough money from $5 per characters?!
TBH, its a prolog, but still, not the best way to generate buzz about it.

[Enigma_2099]

This surprises WHO, exactly?

... and you're only jumping on Capcom? Played any Call of Duty lately?

Hell, I'm currently playing Dynasty Warriors SEVEN.

[NYC_Gamer]

every major company is guilty of this non- sense not just capcom.

[kesvalk]

gamers will whine either way, and will never really be true to their desires...

they say they want new IPs, but when new IPs do come, no one buy them...

when more than 3 games of the same franchise are released, they whine about milking, but don't stop buying them (looking at COD/Final Fantasy/Halo/Pokemon)

the fact is that the gamers themselves don't know what they want, and this is depressing...