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Suspicious Cook posted:You're on. I'll pitch in what I have. Buy the company, sell all IPs but Ace Attorney to make capital, then just turn them into that Ace Attorney dev house?
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Capcom's value is basically all on their IPs anyways now right? I'm pretty sure all their big-name talented devs have left the company.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:34
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Itsuno (And by extension the rest of the DMC4 team) still works for the company and that's all I need to care about Capcom.
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Jun 17, 2014 15:40
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Beef Waifu posted:Itsuno (And by extension the rest of the DMC4 team) still works for the company and that's all I need to care about Capcom. Too bad you're never going to see another DMC game by that or any other team again. 
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Jun 17, 2014 16:37
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A lot of old school designers and programmers (we're talking RE4, Clover, and later arcade era people) apparently still work there, just on Monster Hunter though. Which of course isn't everyones cup of tea.
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Jun 17, 2014 16:43
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TaurusOxford posted:Too bad you're never going to see another DMC game by that or any other team again. i want to believe, motherfuckeeeer Platinum buys the DMC IP, the sons of Sparda go home to daddy Mikami
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Jun 17, 2014 17:05
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TaurusOxford posted:Too bad you're never going to see another DMC game by that or any other team again. As long as they make dragons dogma 2 its cool
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Dred Cosmonaut posted:As long as they make dragons dogma 2 its cool emptyquote
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TaurusOxford posted:Too bad you're never going to see another DMC game by that or any other team again. Says who? You and the myriad of other whiny goons who think a franchise dies because a game didn't sell well? toasterwarrior posted:i want to believe, motherfuckeeeer Mikami doesn't work for Platinum and I wouldn't want anyone from Platinum to handle DMC anyways. Captain Baal fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Jun 17, 2014 17:58
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No one is gonna buy a thing until they're liquidating franchises, that seems to be the standard these days.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:05
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Mordaedil posted:And in an ironic twist, Keiji Inafune does a kickstarter to buy Capcom. I would start a Kickstarter just to raise the funds to purchase the most expensive tier of backing on this Kickstarter.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:10
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Straight up if Sega doesn't buy them outright I'm going to say they will purchase a majority of the IPs.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:13
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If Capcom does end up liquidating their franchises I really hope Nintendo buys Mega Man. 
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Jun 17, 2014 18:15
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Geight posted:Capcom's value is basically all on their IPs anyways now right? They outsourced their stuff to restructure and expand their japan studios(they bought 2 new buildings and plan to employ like 100 new devs every year). Funnily enough one of the goals is to be able to do more themselves and outsource less, because they know drat well, that the quality of outsourced games is lacking. Anyway, while everybody is yelling "Capcom is going down!" and "muh Megaman!", I say let's wait until next year. They canceled ALL their games when they began to restructure the company. Let's see what Capcom is working on right now. I hope the investors can wait that long too.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:21
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Would be hilarious if Sony or Microsoft would buy Capcom and pull Mega Man from Smash Bros. It would just be so fitting for the universe to gently caress over Mega Man fans again.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:23
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Archer666 posted:Would be hilarious if Sony or Microsoft would buy Capcom and pull Mega Man from Smash Bros. It would just be so fitting for the universe to gently caress over Mega Man fans again. Pretty sure that can't actually happen since Nintendo got those rights before any theoretical ownership change.
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TaurusOxford posted:Pretty sure that can't actually happen since Nintendo got those rights before any theoretical ownership change. Please understand that due to a conflict in advertising we have decided to remove Mega Man from our new Smash Brothers game. ~Iwata
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Jun 17, 2014 18:30
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Neo Rasa posted:Please understand that due to a conflict in advertising we have decided to remove Mega Man from our new Smash Brothers game. ~Iwata We have decided to swap him for bad box art megaman instead.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:33
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Neo Rasa posted:Please understand that due to a conflict in advertising we have decided to remove Mega Man from our new Smash Brothers game. ~Iwata PIC OF THE DAY: Here you can see a disgruntled Capcom fan being escorted from our premises in handcuffs for attempting to bust into one of our conference rooms and loudly proclaiming that we are all the devil. 2,501 people Yeah!'d this.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:33
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The title really should be "it is now possible for a takeover of Capcom to happen." It doesn't look like they're actively trying to sell the company off, and it's still worth enough that all this speculation about various entities acquiring Capcom or their IPs (which aren't being auctioned off currently) is kind of asinine. Seriously, a 50% stake in Capcom is over half a billion dollars currently. Nobody's dropping that kind of money on a lukewarm Japanese video game company.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:33
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Mr.Unique-Name posted:Seriously, a 50% stake in Capcom is over half a billion dollars currently. Nobody's dropping that kind of money on a lukewarm Japanese video game company. Obama needs to take a stand for freedom and have the US government buy Capcom.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:36
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Neo Rasa posted:Obama needs to take a stand for freedom and have the US government buy Capcom. What's another billion going down the drain over a failing company at this point?
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JordanKai posted:If Capcom does end up liquidating their franchises I really hope Nintendo buys Mega Man. Nintendo or Sony for anything Capcom, honestly. It'd give Nintendo some IPs to work their magic with, and if Sony snagged up some Capcom IPs, I'd trust them to handle them at the very least better than Capcom itself has. It'd be a blow to the industry if MS bought 'em up.
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fivegears4reverse posted:It'd be a blow to the industry if MS bought 'em up. It'd be like Rare all over again. I mean sure when they were leaving Nintendo they were already on the Decline, but now they're just off in their own corner making Kinect games and nothing more. It's sad really when you think about it.
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Jun 17, 2014 18:56
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So at ~67m outstanding shares priced at ¥1,746 Buying a majority stake in the company would cost about ¥59.66 billion Which at current exchange rate is ~$584 million. That seems obtainable..
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Steelcap posted:So at ~67m outstanding shares priced at ¥1,746 I can see any of the big three more than willing to throw that down. That's basically a ticket to guaranteed victory.
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You aren't likely to be able to bulk purchase 35 million shares, and starting a run on them will drive the price up. Even if an entity could get all those shares at current market value, half a billion is a rather large investment that honestly doesn't have great prospects when you look at the recent history of the stock value.
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TaurusOxford posted:I can see any of the big three more than willing to throw that down.
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Capcom will either turn themselves around or continue to sink and start selling off IP in an effort to stay afloat, a whole sale buyout of the company is very unlikely.
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I hope they start selling off their lesser IPs like Dino Crisis or something. I've got all four of the Dino Crisis games and with the advent of 3rd person shooters maybe we could get a sequel that doesn't suck.
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Zain posted:Straight up if Sega doesn't buy them outright I'm going to say they will purchase a majority of the IPs. Yeah, this guy gets it. I can see it now. MegaMan Legends 3... & Knuckles. 
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I obviously have no access to numbers or anything and am a complete idiot but I wouldn't be surprised if Sony bought it to take Monster Hunter away from Nintendo consoles. As far as I understand it's a pretty big deal in Japan and something to push the Vita over the 3DS with could theoretically be useful. Probably wouldn't be worth $500 million though.
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Lemming posted:I obviously have no access to numbers or anything and am a complete idiot but I wouldn't be surprised if Sony bought it to take Monster Hunter away from Nintendo consoles. As far as I understand it's a pretty big deal in Japan and something to push the Vita over the 3DS with could theoretically be useful. The Vita isn't worth to Sony the money it would cost to make Monster Hunter an exclusive. The system is on lifesupport in Japan, and dead everywhere else, with the few games it's getting basically flowers at a tombstone.
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Nahxela posted:I just looked up this for Capcom's rankings of various sales of titles, if you guys are interested: Man this is always a surreal chart to look through. I assume it's even more sobering when someone looks at it for the first time and doesn't find any trace of Mega Man until they get to number thirty-five. Like it says those are only the sales of the NES/Famicom versions of Mega Man 2 and swaths of gamers have played it since then via various other re-releases but still just seeing DmC almost eek out ahead of it is something else.
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Lemming posted:I obviously have no access to numbers or anything and am a complete idiot but I wouldn't be surprised if Sony bought it to take Monster Hunter away from Nintendo consoles. Well, not that any other videogame company would buy Capcom, but why do people want Sega to buy them? Sega is Miku & japanese arcade games now. And a lovely Sonic game for the west every couple years. They have a bunch of IPs I would love to see, so I don't think they need more IPs they would do nothing with, while pumping out more japan exclusive stuff.
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Doggboat posted:P3rd was on the PSP and I think there's an HD version coming for the Vita. I think... P3rd HD was for the PS3 and was essentially just HD resources for playing a PSP game on the PS3 as opposed to an actual PS3 game. There won't be some kind of return to Playstation for the MH franchise unless the Vita has an install base much closer to the 3DS.
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Geight posted:Capcom's value is basically all on their IPs anyways now right? I'm pretty sure all their big-name talented devs have left the company. Most of the guys who were superstars in the PS2 era left the company, but they still have a lot of the behind-the-scenes workhorses. When Revelations was coming out, I remember reading an article that said that besides Hideaki Kamiya, something like 90% of the crew that made Resident Evil 2 was still at Capcom Japan.
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If it wasn't already a sure thing that Marvel vs Capcom games were dead, it is now. Well, I guess unless Disney buys them... 
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Chimoru posted:If it wasn't already a sure thing that Marvel vs Capcom games were dead, it is now. Well, I guess unless Disney buys them... I agree, if Capcom gets bought out they will probably be purchased by somebody who hates money.
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