Topic: Capcom Now Open To Takeover

Megaman 10 existed and then the old Megaman guy left and they presumably didn't want to make a classic Megaman without the Megaman guy.

That and Capcom is run by crazy people that define modest profit or sane marketing as "failure". There is evidence that this is actually true for game companies so I might somehow be serious.

The biggest irony in this situation is that zombies are more popular now than ever, with all the overdone television shows, video games, comics, and movies about them. You think the game that essentially created the popular zombie video game genre could make a comeback. It wouldn't sell well as a Nintendo exclusive but they could easily make it a fun game, Nintendo can handle survival horror.

I think Nintendo is better picking up the IP's in auction that they can certainly make successful, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter, Mega Man (PLEASE???), Ace Attorney. Maybe a few remakes for the eshop like an HD Ghosts'N'Goblins.

Monster hunter shifts nintendo consoles beyond the threshold nintendo needs to be successful, so you bet they want to buy. They don't need much of the other ip's - and with or without the sale, some of it may die off anyway - but monster hunter seems like something nintendo will want to buy.

Therefore, expect nintendo to buy for a good amount of cash. Or watch them pull a rare and get out before the ship sinks and move on.

So, if Shigeru Miyamoto died tomorrow, would Nintendo stop making Mario and Zelda?

Your excuse is flawed.

That and Capcom is run by crazy people that define modest profit or sane marketing as "failure". There is evidence that this is actually true for game companies so I might somehow be serious.

Mega Man, as of the last decade or so, has been a commercial failure. It's not reliable for profit and Capcom realized this before it was too late.

http://mynintendonews.com/2011/07/21/nintendo-3ds-capcom-blam...

This is a facebook page that represents all of whom shared the same interest on buying the game. Slightly over a hundred thousand. Even if everyone who liked this page bought it (lol, wasn't going to happen), a tenth of a million units a profit does not make.

Okay. Let me start out by saying that I definitely think Nintendo should be the ones to get Capcom. Now I'd like to clear up a few things.

1. To people saying that microsoft, EA, activision, could buy capcom and thus ruin them. Stop worrying. There is a law in japan that prohibits an american company from buying a japanese one. This is why microsoft could not buy atlus, despite having more money then sega.

2. To people saying that nintendo flat wouldn't buy capcom. Why do you thing that? Is it because they didn't buy atlus? Consider this. Nintendo has explicitly said that they are looking towards mergers and acquisitions. Here is a link:

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/01/31/nintendo-is-now-consider...

Nintendo said that AFTER atlus had already been sold and bought.

3. Nintendo and capcom have had a good relationship that goes all the way back to the 80s. megaman, street fighter, bionic commando, ghosts and goblins, they all debuted on nintendo systems. Plus we got the best resident evil games when they were gamecube exclusive. Capcom also made the best 2D zelda games.

4. Several dead capcom franchises would be revived. Like megaman, breath of fire, bionic commando. Games developed by platinum games like okami, viewtiful joe, devil may cry, godhand, would also be revived. I mean since platinum has such a close relationship with nintendo.

5. Perhaps most importantly, Nintendo knows that they are not getting third party support. This is the problem with Wii U. This is why we have these long game droughts in between new releases. Acquiring capcom would be a major help with that. Because they wouldn't just be getting capcom's IPs. They would get their development teams as well. Nintendo said that they wanted to expand. And this is the best way to do so. Who wouldn't want to buy a system that was the exclusive home to both nintendo and capcom franchises? I sure would.

Buying Capcom just makes too much sense... C'mon, Nintendo.

I think Nintendo has enough on its plate to worry about yet another 5 to 7 viable franchises. They're already looking for help for Star Fox what makes everyone think they will have the time.or resources to pull this off.

So I guess most didnt bother to read the article? Or any news related to the story...
Capcom is still profitable but not to the point where investor see its worth holding their shares. So they're bsically considering selling their shares...as in they arent going bankrupt so a company that wants their IPs would have to buy the entire company, not just a select few that they think would be beneficial to them.

Edit: I'm not one to usually agree with @Chrono_Cross but he's right. Mega Man games were in constant decline way before Inafune stepped away from Capcom.

The reason we got on the discussion of selling off franchises is because I said it would make sense to sell a few of the unwanted or unused ones and continue business as usual. Not because they didn't read the article. No one ever said it was on the plate.

Its more profitable to keep the rights to an IP and have a company pay to use it in the long term. If selling off franchises was really that profitable then Capcom and many other companies would be selling franchises that they have no intention of using,

The chances of IPs being sold off by a company after an acquisition are very slim.

Last I knew Inafune's non-Mega-Man Mega Man game was still on.
And he said he did want to finish Legends 3 even after he quit but Capcom didn't want to.

Mega Man 10 also sold well apparently, just not more than 9. And that's all she wrote. Only one that came out after that to my knowledge was Xover.

100,000 people liked the facebook page. That does not in any way represent the actual amount of people who would buy the game. It could be a tenth of the actual numbers, or it could be only a fraction of those people will actually buy the game. All it represents are the amount of people who found that page and bothered to hit the like button. It is not proof of anything, and I've seen too many people, companies and fans alike, suffer from this blatant fact.

What are you smoking? You think that a Facebook fan page is in any way indicative of the size of the potential audience of a game?

Avatar only has 675k votes on IMDb, that means it was a colossal box office flop, hurr.

Well I still haven't seen it so it must of flopped!

Wasn't it the most successful movie ever made?

Edit: Yep. Grossed over 2 BILLION dollars.

You made a wise choice.

Have you read this law or are you repeating what someone else has said?

http://www.iflr.com/Article/2026998/How-to-buy-a-Japanese-com...

A non-Japanese company cannot merge with a Japanese company. However, a non-Japanese company can outright buy a Japanese company. They just need the approval of the directors and shareholders.

Also, since when was Microsoft even interested in acquiring Atlus?

Also note how there is zero mention whatsoever of Nintendo planning to acquiring game studios. There's already been news that Nintendo has acquired a firm that specializes in facial recognition technology and N still hasn't laid out its plans for QoL.

Which is why it doesn't make sense for Nintendo to buy the company. Two large companies have a good working relationship, it's in both of their interests to keep it that way, not combine. Wii U and 3DS already have Capcom's support. It would be more beneficial for Nintendo if Capcom was taken over by a 3rd party holding firm.

Like F-Zero, Wave Race, 1080, Ice Climbers...

Again, they are already getting support from Capcom.

^I can't believe you lumped Ice Climbers in with those. It's not even a series, Its one game.

An NES "arcade style" game at that!