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Can any Wall Street types here calculate exactly how much a 51% stake would be?
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mrhorseshoe posted:Can any Wall Street types here calculate exactly how much a 51% stake would be? $50 shipped.
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Beef Waifu posted:It means more Dark Void. Yeah, If anything it will mean the best IP's will be picked up by some troll who will sit on them like "homeworld" and only after getting some really loving stupid promote for the IP by a nostalgic company (like on par with Duke Nukem Forever) will that troll ever think of giving out that IP for a new-project. Of the whole portfolio the only thing I straight up could even consider buying would be the Street Fighter IP. Ducktails was a limited run, and Disney will never sell you the rights (or make a new game beyond just relauches of it) Remember me? poo poo Devil May Cry? New game sold like poo poo. Resident Evil? Has this ever been a blockbuster game since RE3 ? Bionic Commando? nope. Ace Attorney? Nintendo exclusive, they blocked porting to X360 the first 3; dont think it's going to change now that Nintendo is in even deeper poo poo now than 2012. Dead rising? welcome to ET hell. Lost planet. Why would you do this junk if you have BF or COD/Halo ? Okami: their last big indie game To MrHorse: http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/pdf/result/2013/full/result_2013_full_01.pdf equity, plus net working capital = the value. 51% of that is your rough answer. If you really want to do meatball math, assume the Motorola precedent for book value discount for patents, for a distressed sale to roughly assume what you would be paying for the Capcom 51% stake; answer is anywhere between those two numbers.
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Resident Evil hasn't been a blockbuster but its sales are consistently pretty strong. Also Mega Man 9 and 10 sold pretty well, so there's money in that IP too. The new Devil May Cry sold like poo poo because of loving insane amounts of bad PR, not because nobody likes DMC (all the games up to and including DMC4 were successful). SALT CURES HAM fucked around with this message at 08:24 on Jun 17, 2014 |
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Dear wealthy benefactor Please buy Capcom and make them do a PC port of Dragon's Dogma Your pal Harvest
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Jun 17, 2014 08:22
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And in an ironic twist, Keiji Inafune does a kickstarter to buy Capcom.
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Jun 17, 2014 08:24
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Crimson Harvest posted:Dear wealthy benefactor Is this a petition and can I sign it multiple times
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Jun 17, 2014 08:27
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Gestalt Intellect posted:Is this a petition and can I sign it multiple times It's best if you write your own letter, but yes do it multiple times.
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Hal_2005 posted:Yeah, RE4 was big. I'd think Resident Evil was the most important IP, they're still making lovely movies (or were till lately) that make a ton of money, there's always money in zombies. The last two numbered ones haven't set the world on fire, but there's definitely still money to squeeze from that. And Monster Hunter? That's them isn't it?
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Von Linus posted:I'd think Resident Evil was the most important IP, they're still making lovely movies (or were till lately) that make a ton of money, there's always money in zombies. The last two numbered ones haven't set the world on fire, but there's definitely still money to squeeze from that. I would think that they are making money hand over fist with Street Fighter still. Releasing a slightly changed version of SF4 every other year, plus DLCs, and you're swimming in money.
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Hal_2005 posted:Resident Evil? Has this ever been a blockbuster game since RE3 ? You're loving stupid. Crimson Harvest posted:Dear wealthy benefactor God Hand 2 would be nice while you're at it.
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Zurreco posted:I would think that they are making money hand over fist with Street Fighter still. Releasing a slightly changed version of SF4 every other year, plus DLCs, and you're swimming in money. I've never really understood that. Like. I played Street fighter 1 and 2 to death as a beardless youth, but then I never realised they brought out version after version of them and people bought them, I always though it was just the numbered ones people bought, 1 2 3 4, and there've only been like. Four. Of those. I thought the other 'revision' ones would only sell a small amount to people who were crazy for them, But what the hell do I know is the big lesson here.
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Jun 17, 2014 08:47
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Hal_2005 posted:Resident Evil? Has this ever been a blockbuster game since RE3 ? RE6 was Capcom's second best selling game of all time. Their first was RE5.
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Momomo posted:RE6 was Capcom's second best selling game of all time. Their first was RE5.  I haven't played RE6 but RE5 was shockingly forgettable.
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Fojar38 posted:
5 was poo poo. Such a disappointment after sexy 4.
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Jun 17, 2014 09:17
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Nintendo, buy it and make all the Megaman games.
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Von Linus posted:I've never really understood that. Like. I played Street fighter 1 and 2 to death as a beardless youth, but then I never realised they brought out version after version of them and people bought them, I always though it was just the numbered ones people bought, 1 2 3 4, and there've only been like. Four. Of those. I thought the other 'revision' ones would only sell a small amount to people who were crazy for them, But what the hell do I know is the big lesson here. Street Fighter, like Marvel vs Capcom, is an absolute staple of the fighting game scene, so people who are way into it will always want to drop money in order to keep up with the pros. the fighting community obviously adopts each new version after a short period of time, so people have to get on the wagon early in order to be in the know, especially if the developers were able to get their hooks in with each passing version. Capcom could probably print money with SF and MvC series alone.
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Jun 17, 2014 09:19
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Dear God just not Microsoft. Anyone but them.
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Von Linus posted:5 was poo poo. Such a disappointment after sexy 4. You say that, but outside of Street Fighter 2 and maybe RE4, it was Capcom's top selling game
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I hope they get bought out by a really rich eccentric Ace Attorney fan and the company just puts out nothing but Ace Attorney games and all of them come to the US.
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blackguy32 posted:You say that, but outside of Street Fighter 2 and maybe RE4, it was Capcom's top selling game Nowt to do with how good it was for me. I remember loving the clips of Chris punching dudes in the face before it came out and hoping for more RE4 weird loving plot twists.
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I just looked up this for Capcom's rankings of various sales of titles, if you guys are interested: http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/million.html
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Yeah, I got it slightly wrong with RE6, but the series is still their top selling one. The numbers are a bit weird for other games though, like RE4, because they list the GC, PS2 and Wii versions as different ones.
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Weird, I don't think they list the western port of MH3U, at least not the Wii U side of sales.
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Quest For Glory II posted:I hope they get bought out by a really rich eccentric Ace Attorney fan and the company just puts out nothing but Ace Attorney games and all of them come to the US. Woah woah woah Ace Attorney and Ghost Trick Sequels.
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Jun 17, 2014 09:53
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EA buys Capcom, next Megaman is a F2P mobile game with Dungeon Keeper's IAP model.
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Jun 17, 2014 10:08
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In a just world, Megaman would become a Nintendo IP.
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Momomo posted:Yeah, I got it slightly wrong with RE6, but the series is still their top selling one. The numbers are a bit weird for other games though, like RE4, because they list the GC, PS2 and Wii versions as different ones. Thumbs up for trying new stuff with the series, but the execution was terrible. Being forced to cart around useless guns with no ammo, invincible zombies on the floor you can't do anything about until you stand on them, awful driving sections... O:RC was just.. Ugh. But it apparently sold as well as expected. My guess is both are mostly from pre-orders. Antti posted:EA buys Capcom, next Megaman is a F2P mobile game with Dungeon Keeper's IAP model. 
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The least likely scenario: [Other game company] buys Capcom The most likely scenario: Richard Garriott magics up some 200 billion dollars and dedicates Capcom to producing Ultima: The Dogma of Dragons
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Antti posted:EA buys Capcom, next Megaman is a F2P mobile game with Dungeon Keeper's IAP model. That's pretty much what the last Megaman game was, though
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Crimson Harvest posted:Dear wealthy benefactor
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They wouldn't be in this situation if they budgeted their games in a sensible manner rather than trying to do RE6. I don't think anything will really happen with this, some large conglomerate nobody's heard of will buy Capcom if it happens.
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Genuine question here, say Microsoft or Sony buys them, would that effect Megaman in Smash at all?
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I could see Sony doing pretty friggin well with Capcom. CoolGuy, I don't think it causes any issues due to the rights of use being signed prior to the buyout. Grandfather clauses.
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Genuine question here, say Microsoft or Sony buys them, would that effect Megaman in Smash at all? I can't imagine it would. They'd tie up characters with contracts in advance, you'd assume.
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Honestly, nobody is going to buy them, and if somebody does, it'll be [insert chinese mobile game company here]. The amount of yen they are asking is astronomical, and there is no way anybody could get a ROI from them. It's more an issue of how bad things are getting for Capcom that the shareholders are willing to do this. More likely, it opens up the possibility for a Square style merger in the future, or perhaps an auction of some of their classic properties.
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I don't give a gently caress who buys it, I just want my loving megaman God loving drat it I'm mad at video games.
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I've got twenty bucks.
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Quest For Glory II posted:I hope they get bought out by a really rich eccentric Ace Attorney fan and the company just puts out nothing but Ace Attorney games and all of them come to the US. You're on. I'll pitch in what I have.
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