Capcom could be taken over?

[DEMONKAI]

Speak your mind on it if you like....

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/06/16/capcom-could-be-taken-over-if-shareholders-open-company/

[Jelux Da Casual]

Speak your mind on it if you like....

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/06/16/capcom-could-be-taken-over-if-shareholders-open-company/

I've been preaching this outcome since the cancellation of [insert unnamed title] three years ago. Nintendo holding the majority of shares and making Capcom a 2nd party company like Game Freak or HAL Labs would be the best thing to happen to both companies.

[esn23]

hell no sony should buy them out Nintendo sucks all their systems are failures i think Nintendo should do what Sega did and just make games.  Leave the systems to the big boys "P

[ExeLord]

Completely agree on "hell no" It's way different direction and target auditory. I don't want RE for kids with stuffed zombies They always were positioning their gaming systems as ones for family, aiming for younger auditory and that's exactly what most of capcom's franchises aren't about. Just take a look on main heroes - Ryu, Dante, X, Spencer, even Nilin at capcom's side and Mario, Link, Kirby, Bomberman at nintendo's, only Samus sticks out(though as much as MegaMan), but only to reinforce the rule. More then that - if nintendo buys capcom it'll mean crappy wii u exclusives only, to hell with that.
Yeah, capcom should be bought, but whoever is better then nintendo in this case.
Sorry for being angry

[Trinitronity]

Wait, since when did Castlevania stopped to exist?
Castlevania is on the Nintendo side as well, if I remember correctly.
And did Nintendo censor the new Castlevania games? NO!

[ExeLord]

It's Konami's, not nintendo's - not owning, not doing anything they want with it, just giving platform to release on.

[esn23]

lets not forget those resident evil remakes of part 0 and 1 they should have been released as highdef remakes for all systems but no nintendo is greedy and their systems suck

[supa2520]

if a good gaming company buys capcom then they can finally give us some games that were canned few out the years

so if any company would buy capcom it should be.......namco or sony

[ExeLord]

I'd wish it's Namco, they could fix the insane ways capcom went(near death insanity?) in right direction.

[Trinitronity]

It's Konami's, not nintendo's - not owning, not doing anything they want with it, just giving platform to release on.

Konami is about as much a part of Nintendo now like Sega is. Never knew that?
That's why Castlevania games are being only released on Nintendo consoles nowadays.

[O Ilusionista]

*expecting someone complaining about megaman and bla bla bla*
oh, wait...

[ExeLord]

errr, guys, when did nintendo bought Konami? It really happened and I missed it? I remember Konami bought Hudson Soft in 2012, but Konami being bought itself by nintendo... That's madness I don't want to beleive remembering argues between those two about brutality of Konami's games
...and no, I didn't complained if you pointed at me there, Big O

[Jelux Da Casual]

*expecting someone complaining about megaman and bla bla bla*
oh, wait...

Self manifest destiny much? I'm starting to think you miss the complaining.

But back on topic, imagine franchise power of Capcom properties with the quality control and supervision of Nintendo. Capcom games would be good again.

Imagine a Resident Evil game made by Retro Studios.

Imagine a Ghosts and Goblins made by Hal Labs.

Imagine a Pokemon: Monster Catcher.

Nintendo vs Capcom could FINALLY BE A THING!!

[Trinitronity]

errr, guys, when did nintendo bought Konami? It really happened and I missed it? I remember Konami bought Hudson Soft in 2012, but Konami being bought itself by nintendo... That's madness I don't want to beleive remembering argues between those two about brutality of Konami's games
...and no, I didn't complained if you pointed at me there, Big O

Konami wasn't bought by Nintendo.
Sega wasn't bought by Nintendo either, but Sega is STILL part of Nintendo.
Also, Game Freak and HAL Labs were never bought to begin with.
So yeah, a good scenario would be, if Capcom would become the same thing to Nintendo, what Sega is to Nintendo right now.

[ExeLord]

If that'll happen I'd feel like Giger in this comics:
http://www.dorkly.com/post/62941/the-terrifying-afterlife-of-hr-giger

[Trinitronity]

Why?
I bet that Nintendo will do better MegaMan games than Capcom does.

[Jelux Da Casual]

Why?
I bet that Nintendo will do better MegaMan games than Capcom does.

There it is O, get him!!!

Konami wasn't bought by Nintendo.
Sega wasn't bought by Nintendo either, but Sega is STILL part of Nintendo.
Also, Game Freak and HAL Labs were never bought to begin with.
So yeah, a good scenario would be, if Capcom would become the same thing to Nintendo, what Sega is to Nintendo right now.

Both Konami and SEGA are third party developers: They make what they want for whatever agreements they make, be it cross-platform or console exclusive.

Example: SEGA made a 3-game Nintendo exclusive Sonic deal. (Lost world, the recent Olypmic game, and the upcoming BOOM series) but have already announced there are new games coming for PS4 and XB1 in the future.

Game Freak and Hal Labs however are second party, meeting 1 of 2 requirements:

1) They are contracted to develop an specific 1st party owned IP. Ex: Game Freak exclusive makes Pokemon for Nintendo

2) The company is majority share-holder owned by the 1st party. Ex: Both Hal Labs and Game Freak have close to 54% of the shares owned by Nintendo.

[O Ilusionista]

Self manifest destiny much? I'm starting to think you miss the complaining.

Baits...they are so easy to set up, .

I would love to see other company to buy Megaman rights just to terminate the serie for all and see all fans crying.
Yes, I like to see the world burning, hahaha

[Trinitronity]

I would love to see other company to buy Megaman rights just to terminate the serie for all and see all fans crying.
Yes, I like to see the world burning, hahaha

I guess you also like to get probed...
...with cartridges of MegaMan Legends, of course.

[Jelux Da Casual]

Ok, I'm come to a rather interesting and totally sane maneuver to Nintendo buying Capcom. It wouldn't make any sense at all for Nintendo to just blanket exclusivity on everything Capcom puts out. We all know that would kill the company.

However, Nintendo putting the pressure on them to put out quality work would improve their titles significantly, stop them from just putting titles out and then fixing them later with patches because of a supposed deadline, hiding DLC on the disk, nonsense like that.

I think the good play would be to let Capcom continue their main franchise business as normal: Cross platform your main titles (Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Dead Rising, etc [I mean why not, you still get a cut of the cash cause you own it now]) but now you have the access to bring back titles from multiple franchise that people have been asking for but Capcom couldn't be bothered to make (Power Stone, Rival Schools, Breath of Fire PROPER [none of the IOS nonsense], Onimusha).

Of course certain IPs would become console exclusive, but it would be ones that make sense (Viewtiful Joe, Ace Attorney, Ghost and Goblins).

Then of course, your crossover games (Nintendo vs Capcom, Dante showing up in future Bayonetta games and vice versa [both made by Platinum!!], Zelda & Okami).

See, if I can come up with this, and this is just from a few minutes of thought, it doesn't sound so bad anymore does it?

The idea is that Nintendo takes chances, chances that no one else is willing to make anymore. Everyone else is so steeped into their sequel routines that it's all the same. But for every Mario, Zelda, MarioKart, Pokemon they make, there was some title they put a risk on: Pikmin, Animal Crossing, Sin & Punishment, Electroplankton, Professor Layton, Starfy, etc

They didn't always work out, but the point it they did try. I think Nintendo buying Capcom would mean that Nintendo would at least try to bring back some good stuff, and I mean new versions, not just re-issuing the same games we've already bought over and over again on eshops and VC.

[Spidermew]

hell no sony should buy them out Nintendo sucks all their systems are failures i think Nintendo should do what Sega did and just make games.  Leave the systems to the big boys "P

The only system of theirs that was a commercial failure was the Virtual Boy. Nintendo saved video games in the 80's with the NES and the Game Boy. Nintendo is one of the few game companies out there even trying to keep things fresh and innovative. Yeah they have problems with online services but they are the only company out there making dedicated video game consoles. Sony and Microsoft are not video game companies, and their consoles are just multi-media boxes that play a lot of games that come in lots of shades of brown and gray. Sony and Microsoft also don't have any legendary characters bound to them. They don't have a Link, or Samus, nor they a Star Fox, let alone someone as big world wide as Mario; Mario who has just as much if not more recognition then Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse.
Nintendo is the big boy here. 
Nintendo should by Capcom, if they did we would get a good new Mega Man game, that's for sure.

[Macaulyn97]

Nintendo may be good at making games, but honestly, they don't have the same types of games. How would games like Resident Evil or Devil May Cry look when made by Nintendo? Their girls didn't even have sex appeal until Bayonetta becoming exclusive and Hyrule Warriors being made, so how would a foul-mouthed character Dante be? And also, I don't want all of Capcom's games to become Wii U + 3DS exclusive, I'd like to have a Wii U, but, for now, I'm more than satisfied with my PS3.

[Spidermew]

Nintendo may be good at making games, but honestly, they don't have the same types of games. How would games like Resident Evil or Devil May Cry look when made by Nintendo? Their girls didn't even have sex appeal until Bayonetta becoming exclusive and Hyrule Warriors being made, so how would a foul-mouthed character Dante be? And also, I don't want all of Capcom's games to become Wii U + 3DS exclusive, I'd like to have a Wii U, but, for now, I'm more than satisfied with my PS3.

It is both sad and dumb that women have to be sexy for anyone to be interested in their games. Women are not sex objects dude.
Also foul-mouthed characters are just a sign of a lazy writer.

[Jelux Da Casual]

Why does no one grasp the concept of "ownership /= development"?

Nintendo owns Pokemon. Do they make it? No.

Nintendo owns Kirby. Do they make it? No.

So if Nintendo owned Capcom, would they make those games? No.

What they would do is stop Capcom from making crazy-@$$ business decisions and probably make games based on franchises that Capcom considers dead.

[supa2520]

heres alpha omega sin on this topic