Well, mobile investment surely didnt go well for them and now they're cutting their forecast by half. It's sad that they are in this state but they got themselves in the hole. So much for that Monster Hunter 4 sales money then. That was were they invested most of it. Maybe now Nintendo will consider buying them again now they are down again. It has been the one company Nintendo really could buy and gain good HD dev talent. Also Capcom would benefit from Nintendo's ability to make intelligent use of popular franchises.
I never really cared for Monster Hunter, they let their mascot, Mega Man die, and Clover Studio went defunct a couple of years ago as well. There's not much left of Capcom. They certainly aren't as big anymore as they used to be.
If any of the big 3 could really use some of Capcom's franchises, it'd be Nintendo, and those franchises would benefit from Nintendo's direction as well. I'd have hope for RE 7 if Nintendo had some of its top talent overseeing it. It's more likely if the company gets bought, it'll be by MS though.
^No worries about that. An american company can't buy a japanese one that is filing for bankruptcy. This is why microsoft couldn't buy atlus.
i thought it was due to atlus not really being a big thins for such a western console. atlus games are very niche everywhere except japan who could care less about microsoft
Nintendo can't even manage half of their own franchises at times, let alone take on Capcom's aswell.
You only have to trawl through the forums to see how many people beg for new entries for Star Fox, F-Zero, Wave Race, and many others. Yet we all know that if it doesn't include mario, zelda, kirby or pokemon, Nintendo ain't interested.
Thing is, how many external studios do Nintendo own now? I'm sure that there's quite a few, and how many games do we see from them each year? 1 or 2 if we're lucky, and that's between all of them. So what makes you think Capcom would get treated any different.
Another thing too add, somebody mention MS buying Capcom. That must be joke, look at what happened to Rare.
If Nintendo were to get involved, they could offer an exclusivity deal for a number years until Capcom sorted them selves out. Atleast Capcom could still keep making games, and Nintendo could help in their projects too.
EDIT.
I was just thinking, does it seem that Capcom are deliberately trying to self destruct, and go bust? All you really need to do is look back at their questionable decisions over recent years, because it sure seems that way.
Nintendo really isn't in a position to be buying companies right now.
And even if they were, why would they purchase Capcom? All of their talent outside of Ryozo Tsujimoto (MH producer) has left and they've shifted a lot of resources to mobile, so all the HD talent OP is referring to isn't really that notable. Anyone interested in buying Capcom would probably save themselves a lot of cash by just purchasing their IPs.
Four more months until Bayonetta 2.
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Capcom is dooomed, so Nintendo should buy it so dooomed companies stay together.
In all seriousness, Capcom is not what they used to, and they should release smaller games because their big budget games (RE 6) are killing their profits. Their business decisions (SF x T) do not help either.
To answer OP, It doesn't make sense for either Sony or Nintendo to buy Capcom as a whole. If Capcom did start to have real problems (Which they are not) and actually went bankrupt it makes more sense for Sony or Nintendo to just buy up IPs and studios then the whole company.
What's stopping sony or Microsoft from buying them?
Sony's having money problems of their own, and Microsoft can't buy Capcom because there's a Japanese law that doesn't allow non-Japanese companies to buy out Japanese companies despite that Japanese companies can buy out non-Japanese companies (like how Square Enix owns Edios and Namco Bandai owns Atari)
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