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RUMOR - Microsoft to purchase Capcom?

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    cloudeagle wrote:
    Come to think of it, does Capcom have anything planned for the Wii?
    wikipedia wrote:
    Wii games

    * Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles

    edit - beat'd

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  • Kewop DecamKewop Decam Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Mattie wrote:
    cloudeagle wrote:
    Come to think of it, does Capcom have anything planned for the Wii?

    Resident Wiivil

    :lol:

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  • PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    You're right, they have; Conkers, Kameo, PDZ and Viva Pinata have all been good games.

    :lol:

    I'll never understand the hate PDZ gets. I played through it, and it's fine. It probably saw the most play on my 360 before I got gow.

    As for Kameo... I have it, but I haven't played more than 5 minutes of it, so I can't judge.

    PDDZ sucks, that's what is wrong with it. It's playable, but... ugh

    "No it doesn't"
    "yes it does"
    "no it doesn't"
    "yes it does"

    and so on.

    Rabbit season

    DUCK SEASON!

    RABBIT SEASON!

    RABBIT SEASON!

    DUCK SEASON!!!

    *BANG!*

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2007
    So you're basing a story off something posted on Evil Avatar 360?

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  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Looney Tunes Vs. Capcom Xbox exclusive confirmed?

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  • KiTAKiTA Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Microsoft has been trying to buy out big name Japanese companies for years. That's a major reason why Enix bought Square. I'm sure they've tried to buy Capcom many, many times in the past few years.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    cloudeagle wrote:
    Come to think of it, does Capcom have anything planned for the Wii?

    Duh, Residend Evil Wii. Right right right.

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  • CyberJackalCyberJackal Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Mattie wrote:
    cloudeagle wrote:
    Come to think of it, does Capcom have anything planned for the Wii?

    Resident Wiivil
    Weevil.jpg :?:

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    Eteric wrote:
    I don't want to have to buy a 360 to play Megaman and Resident Evil games.

    Hence why I'd hate it if they bought them.
    I, on the other hand, already have a 360, so this is good news for me, since it'll be one less reason to buy a PS3. If only Sony would fucking sell team Ico.

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  • Bionic MonkeyBionic Monkey Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2007
    Hybrid wrote:
    I would hate this, cos I'm unlikely to ever be able to get afford a 360, and when capcom brought Resident Evil to the game I was all over it. I would hate to lose my Resident Evils (and the Megamans too).

    Of course, it doesnt sound very likely.
    I've got to ask though... if you can't afford a 360, you sure as hell can't afford a PS3. So what difference would this make to you one way or the other?

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  • MattieMattie Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Hybrid wrote:
    I would hate this, cos I'm unlikely to ever be able to get afford a 360, and when capcom brought Resident Evil to the game I was all over it. I would hate to lose my Resident Evils (and the Megamans too).

    Of course, it doesnt sound very likely.
    I've got to ask though... if you can't afford a 360, you sure as hell can't afford a PS3. So what difference would this make to you one way or the other?

    I guess he's hoping that they port the games to his PS2.

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  • MugenmidgetMugenmidget Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    agoaj wrote:
    Looney Tunes Vs. Capcom Xbox exclusive confirmed?
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    It will be mine, oh yes, it will be mine.

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  • CokomonCokomon Our butts are worth fighting for! Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Mega Man Powered Up and Maverick Hunter X series continued as Live Arcade games?

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  • EtericEteric Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    This had better be a lie...

    Daddy wants his Wii games...

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  • Target PracticeTarget Practice Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    This rumor makes me D:

    I don't want anybody to buy Capcom, but if somebody does, it better be Nintendo.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    If this IS true, you can forget about any Capcom Wii games. Gamespot recently quoted Bill Gates as saying Nintendo is the 360's toughest competition.

    http://www.gamespot.com/news/6164053.html

    That won't prevent them for developing for the DS, given all the Microsoft properties that have appeared there.

    ...at least until Microsoft develops plans for a handheld.

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  • SlayerVinSlayerVin Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Eteric wrote:
    This had better be a lie...

    Daddy wants his Wii games...

    Is Capcom planning anything other than Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles for the Wii? No More Heroes is being developed by Grasshopper and published by Marvelous and Spike (two publishers?), so Capcom involvement whatsoever. I haven't really heard of much else.

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  • scootchscootch Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    cloudeagle wrote:
    Come to think of it, does Capcom have anything planned for the Wii?

    Resident Evil Wii

    no more heroes

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  • ElendilElendil Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Mattie wrote:
    cloudeagle wrote:
    Come to think of it, does Capcom have anything planned for the Wii?

    Resident Wiivil
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  • oddmentoddment Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I personally think this would be pretty damn good. If MS bought Capcom though, would any games that cudn't really come out on the 360 anyway (like RE Wii, other Wii games and handheld games) just be cancelled? Or would they let them complete them first, and once all that is out the way, move them on to 360 exclusives with PC ports, and possibly continue on with handheld titles. I mean, as some have said, Rare still makes handheld games, and wouldn't MS still profit from these anyway, owning the company making them and all?

    Anyway, it probably won't happen, hence it being a rumour, but it would be nice if it did happen. No more worrying if Sony has bought exclucivity for RE5 or even Dead Rising 2 for the PS3!

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  • ToadTheMushroomToadTheMushroom Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I approve of a Microsoft Capcom takeover.

    Mainly because Microsoft aren't idiots and would reform Clover in a heartbeat.

    Plus, I already own a 360 so more goodies for me =)

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I approve of a Microsoft Capcom takeover.

    Mainly because Microsoft aren't idiots and would reform Clover in a heartbeat.

    Not necessarily. I love Clover, but the only game of theirs that really sold decently was Viewtiful Joe. Okami, wonderful as it was, likely lost them a TON of money because sales were poop here AND in Japan (where it should have been a blockbuster). From a business standpoint, it would be stupid to reform Clover, sad to say.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Clover games were like indie films.

    If anyone other than Clover made them, no one would care. Because they aren't that spectacular.

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  • SlayerVinSlayerVin Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    cloudeagle wrote:
    I approve of a Microsoft Capcom takeover.

    Mainly because Microsoft aren't idiots and would reform Clover in a heartbeat.

    Not necessarily. I love Clover, but the only game of theirs that really sold decently was Viewtiful Joe. Okami, wonderful as it was, likely lost them a TON of money because sales were poop here AND in Japan (where it should have been a blockbuster). From a business standpoint, it would be stupid to reform Clover, sad to say.

    I agree it would be a poor business decision to reform Clover. However, even though Clover has been dissolved, it's unlikely that the people who made up the Clover team have been dissolved as well (acid?). So even though we will never likely see another Clover title again :( , we could see a formation of a new studio with similar goals :D , with or without Microsoft.

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  • SlayerVinSlayerVin Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Clover games were like indie films.

    If anyone other than Clover made them, no one would care. Because they aren't that spectacular.

    Someone's either never played Okami or God Hand, or has no soul...

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  • Folken FanelFolken Fanel anime af When's KoFRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I approve of a Microsoft Capcom takeover.

    Mainly because Microsoft aren't idiots and would reform Clover in a heartbeat.

    Plus, I already own a 360 so more goodies for me =)
    Limed for agreement. Browned for shit yeah I fucking hope so.

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  • ImranImran Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    cloudeagle wrote:
    I approve of a Microsoft Capcom takeover.

    Mainly because Microsoft aren't idiots and would reform Clover in a heartbeat.

    Not necessarily. I love Clover, but the only game of theirs that really sold decently was Viewtiful Joe. Okami, wonderful as it was, likely lost them a TON of money because sales were poop here AND in Japan (where it should have been a blockbuster). From a business standpoint, it would be stupid to reform Clover, sad to say.
    You're also kind of missing the point that the actual developers behind Clover left of their own volition before the studio was dissolved - hell, that's why it was dissolved. There wouldn't be much of a point to a Pirates of the Carribean without Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom just like there isn't much of a point to Clover without Inaba or Kamiya.

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  • JJJJ DailyStormer Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    This rumor is 10 kinds of retarded.

    Rumor:

    MS to buy Nintendo in 5 years.

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  • MechMantisMechMantis Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    JJ wrote:
    This rumor is 10 kinds of retarded.

    Rumor:

    MS to buy Nintendo in 5 years.


    That was about 6 years ago.

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  • JJJJ DailyStormer Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    MechMantis wrote:
    JJ wrote:
    This rumor is 10 kinds of retarded.

    Rumor:

    MS to buy Nintendo in 5 years.


    That was about 6 years ago.

    Nobody killed Trip Hawkens yet?

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I don't buy this, mainly because if they have money to buy a developer, there are far better developers to buy than Capcom.

    And for the record, Perfect Dark Zero is a piece of shit. I've seen better AI in board games.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Ashcroft wrote:
    I don't buy this, mainly because if they have money to buy a developer, there are far better developers to buy than Capcom.
    I agree. MS buy Rockstar, then that would be generation won (from a hardware sales perspective). Simple as.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Deusfaux wrote:
    i really dont see them pulling DMC4 off the PS3

    I see them putting it on the Xbox 360 though.

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  • Tumbler 360Tumbler 360 Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Would love to see MS buy Capcom. If titles like Dead Rising are what we can expect from a company that only makes games for the 360, sign me up!

    It would also be awesome to see the marketplace be filled with all those 2d fighting games that capcom made like dark stalkers and the marvel vs xmen games (that was capcom right?).

    Kick ass.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Drez wrote:
    Deusfaux wrote:
    i really dont see them pulling DMC4 off the PS3

    I see them putting it on the Xbox 360 though.
    nice avatar, MCP.

    personally, from a 'format wars' perspective, it would do Microsoft a huge bonus to own Capcom, since they're a somewhat popular Japanese developer, and Japan's a market they'd love to crack. As far as i'm aware, Dead Rising is an exclusive, and that's doing quite well.
    However from a games-playing perspective, i guess it shouldn't really matter, as long as there's good games on the 360. This is the console i own, and so the one i want to play games on. I can understand why PS3 owners would feel aggrieved, similarly i would if some good 360 exclusives were lost to a console i didn't own.

    But at the end of the day, it's only a rumour, and a highly unlikely one at that.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Would love to see MS buy Capcom. If titles like Dead Rising are what we can expect from a company that only makes games for the 360, sign me up!

    It would also be awesome to see the marketplace be filled with all those 2d fighting games that capcom made like dark stalkers and the marvel vs xmen games (that was capcom right?).

    Kick ass.
    shit, have capcom put out anything on the VC?

    if they have, and you may ever want it, get it bought now. God knows they'll be taken down if capcom ever get bought out buy MS

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  • astroboyastroboy Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Would love to see MS buy Capcom. If titles like Dead Rising are what we can expect from a company that only makes games for the 360, sign me up!

    It would also be awesome to see the marketplace be filled with all those 2d fighting games that capcom made like dark stalkers and the marvel vs xmen games (that was capcom right?).

    Kick ass.

    Yes, but what you've said has already happened or could happen even if Capcom isn't bought by MS.

    Personally, I would prefer Capcom able to produce games for whatever platforms it chooses.

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  • Blitz RawketBlitz Rawket Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    I approve of a Microsoft Capcom takeover.

    Mainly because Microsoft aren't idiots and would reform Clover in a heartbeat.

    Plus, I already own a 360 so more goodies for me =)
    Yeah, because Microsoft sure scrambled to get Free Radical back into Rare. :roll:

    People, the problem isn't with the fact that Microsoft would buy them, but that they would get bought at all. Exclusivity for a company that would otherwise make plenty of games for all systems is nothing but a lose-lose situation for anyone that doesn't have a huge pro-MS bias.

    (Not to mention that a Japanese company going exclusive to Microsoft, which has a much shorter leg to stand on in the Japanese market than the other two console giants, doesn't make any damn sense)

    Edit: Wait, this is EGM? "Street Fighter 4 is coming out this year" EGM? Why the hell are we even paying any attention? :lol:

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  • LotharsLothars Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    astroboy wrote:
    Would love to see MS buy Capcom. If titles like Dead Rising are what we can expect from a company that only makes games for the 360, sign me up!

    It would also be awesome to see the marketplace be filled with all those 2d fighting games that capcom made like dark stalkers and the marvel vs xmen games (that was capcom right?).

    Kick ass.

    Yes, but what you've said has already happened or could happen even if Capcom isn't bought by MS.

    Personally, I would prefer Capcom able to produce games for whatever platforms it chooses.

    I agree, I would prefer Capcom to stay independent and especially not be bought by MS especially since I am a huge Capcom fan and I think it would do more harm than good.

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  • No Great NameNo Great Name FRAUD DETECTED Registered User regular
    edited January 2007
    Ugh no.

    God no.

    People who think this is fine just got on my, "eat a dick and have fun never being taken seriously by me again" list.

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