5 Things Capcom Is Doing Right

There's a lot that seems to be wrong with big video game publishers these days. All too often, they may end up milking a franchise until there's nothing left to milk (see: Activision), relying on publishing games in popular franchises while creativity and the innovation well dries up.

Capcom is one such company that isn't entirely innocent of these charges. However, they are beginning to move in a direction in which they are breaking free of the outdated industry procedures that have long ensured the financial survival (and creative death) of major publishers. Consider five positive things they're doing in the industry right now.

[Quagmire]

Let us see what Capcom's doing WRONG:

1: Outsourcing Devil May Cry to a Western Developer
2: Making a Resident Evil...which doesnt have horror, and again giving it to a western Developer
3: Not localising Miles Edgeworth 2
4: Not bringing a new Monster Hunter game for PS3
5: Not rebooting Dino Crisis
6: Milking Street Fighter 4 and Marvel VS Capcom 3 with DLC

am I missing anything?

[waltyftm]

Yes they also need to release a new Powerstone, Onimusha and Rival Schools game.

[caseh]

RIVAAAAAAAL SCHOOLS!

[Perjoss]

you forgot to add a real current gen, non Wii, non handheld Monster Hunter! but i forgive you.

[MWH]

and Maximo. Capcom has a huge collection under it's long wing.

[CrescentFang]

Announcing MML3 as an upcoming game only to find out it hasn't even been green-lit for release yet?

[LoaMcLoa]

They also need to give back Grasshopper their Killer 7-license back

[Quagmire]

On a personal level, I want them to also make Lost Planet 3, localise the Phoenix Wright X Layton video game, make a Phoenix Wright Anime series, and also include Phoenix Wright is DLC in MvC3

[baker_boi]

Why yall keep askin for this lame ass Phoenix Wright?

There's a host of people that I'd rather have in MVC3 over a damn character in a DS game that I'll never even look at.

Besides the fact that he's not even a fighter in the slightest bit, he's lame.

I know yall prolly fans of his, prolly nintendo fans too, but out of all CAPCOM's series I'd never even look at any of the games dealing with that court and investigation bull for a brawler.

Maybe they'll put him in Super Smash Bros. where he belongs. Not in a serious fighting game where he taking up more space.

Haggar can go along with him too.

[kingdavid]

A 3d Phoenix Wright game on consoles would give me a hard on.

[Yi-Long]

... the DLC-scamming being the worst of the offends (and the reason I don't buy their games until there's a 'complete' release for a budget-price).

Would also be nice if they'd finally give us a new Power Stone, although they'd probably DLC-scam us with that as well, so I wouldn't buy it...

[JoeSchmoh]

You got it about right. And if they keep re-releasing these Ultimate and Super versions of their fighting games. People are going to start to not buying them when they first come out.

[Vandamme21]

there always have to be a bunch of haters on this site hating on capcom. I think some of u haters, needs to get laid.

[caseh]

Naaaawww, Capcom just need to stop revising the same game and releasing 6 additional versions which are just tweaked slightly with the word 'SUPER' or 'ARCADE' added onto the title.

I've not invested in the latest SF4 yet, i'm waiting for the 'Super Turbo Arcade EX' edition. :)

[Perjoss]

gonna have to agree with Vandamme, sure Capcom has taken on some pretty greedy tactics and releasing so many versions of Street Fighter is very wrong, but they are still one of my favourite devs / pubs.

[10987654321]

@ Vandamme21
People hate on Capcom because of on-disc DLC, new versions of new games announced months after the original versions release and insanely stupid business decisions (DMC).

[JoeSchmoh]

Keiji Inafune jumped ship cause he knows giving outsourcing all their franchises back fired with horrible sales.

[Knushwood Butt]

Yeah, but don't forget Lost Planet 2 was in-house..

[lizard81288]

They may have a forum, but they play pussy foot on it. Also, you get modded very easy. no cussing or even if a youtube video has cussing, you get modded. also, if you don't suck capcom's balls, you'll get yelled at by the fans. for example, when Megaman wasn't in MvC3, unity fans claimed he wasn't important enough and didn't belong in the game anyways.

as for Evo, thats just promotion, someone has too buy all of those incarnations of SF, they are a big chunk of sales.

"hey're releasing not one, not two, and not even three or four, but five Resident Evil games, that's what. That's right, Capcom is releasing 5 Resident Evil games in one year (two of which are HD remakes). "

they are milking it, and are probably going to charge $60 for each copy.

[kuroukage]

Crapcom also released a broken PC version of SSFIV:AE and then proceeded to make PC players wait over a week for a fix. This was just recently too. I love how you try to paint them in the Jesusy light though.

[Taz Yamauchi]

DmC will just overrule anything that Capcom is doing right

[kesvalk]

now let's make a "20 things capcom is doing wrong"...

[Venoxn4g]

They need not to break their Megaman 3DS project... then:

Release new proper Viewtiful Joe, Haunting grounds 2, God Hand 2, new Onimusha and SHADOW OF ROME 2!!! :)

[lizard81288]

Too late, both Megaman Legends 3 games are canceled.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[gumgum99]

indeed. Way to go Capcom. Let's hope you make it outta this one alive.