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Posted By Robert G. about 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Dragon’s Dogma is among the big winners for Capcom financially.
In spite of all the negative feedback towards different business practices, Capcom will be enjoying a near $17 million in profit for the first quarter. Capcom will go on to make a ¥1.3 billion ($16.9 million) profit for the first quarter of the 2013 fiscal year, an increase of 290% in their total net income. Capcom also saw a growth in revenues for the first quarter, netting a total of ¥13.74 billion ($176 million) in sales, and an overall revenue increase of 56% from last years quarter.
Of course, Capcom is attributing their financial success to the string of solid releases in the past few months, the biggest of which being Dragon’s Dogma. Although Capcom admits it “struggled abroad,” Dragon’s Dogma exceeded expectations in Japan, selling over 400,000 copies to go along with the one million units shipped worldwide.
Capcom also cited their social games division as a contributing factor. Their social games “remained strong” throughout the quarter, including The Smurf’s Village, Sengoku BASARA: Card Heroes and Resident Evil: Outbreak Survive, which added over 2 million new registered members according to the report. Interestingly enough, Capcom’s weak spot seemed to be the Arcade side of gaming, with their net sales on Arcade games down 9.1% from last years quarter, citing the closing down of one major arcade in Japan, as well as not meeting the “backlash of special demands”due to the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Source: Capcom.co
I hope this is a sign to the higher-ups in Capcom to invest more on new IPs. Its a shame how much of Capcom has fallen, they made some of the most beautiful and unique games in the PS2/GC days.
*Walks up with a paintbrush, crosses out PS2/GC and puts in Nintendo and SNES. Thinks about it and re-adds PS2/GC*
In any case the bottom line is that Capcom is still basically Capcom. Street Fighter DLC? Its nothing more than the 3-5 SNES Street Fighter II’s. It’s nothing more than WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW Year, NFL Year, Dynasty Warriors # Vowel. First Person Shooter # Vowel Random-Word.
The problem is that they are really pushing effort into those good games. I think the argument could be made that even new IP’s are equal from back then to today.
Let me just say this. Back then the old Capcom could take any thing really and make a game out of it. When was the last good TV/Cartoon/Movie game? Why hasn’t anyone asked Capcom? Has Capcom released any games like that? When? Was it good?
Capcom iner workings have changed. The rust of Rare-Soft has started to show perhaps. I think that capcom could go back and give old Heros a try.
Forgotten Worlds! Release on Market. New levels and weapons. Make it!
Lest its not making a argument of MagaMin Intentions 3.
Dragon’s Dogma is an amazing game.
Capcom making profits means something they did work. Was it overpriced DLC? Disc-locked content? cheap cash-ins? or genuinely good games? Whatever it was, expect to see more of it.
Goes to show that if Nintendo just made a few interesting first-party games or helped third-party game releases more than hindered them for their systems, maybe they could not lose so much money.
I still sigh over the 3DS eshop and the fact that the 3DS still has no skype-ish capabilities. Here’s hoping that’s part of the new networking stuff the big N brings over from Wii U to 3DS.
I mean, seriously, Capcom made a profit from basically one major new IP and a few good releases (Resident Evil: Revelations, though hate the subtitle, played well based on the demo I played). If Nintendo could manage about that much, made they’d stop losing money?
I’m not even a huge Capcom fan, besides Resident Evil, I don’t play much of their stuff.
What’s funny is people complain all the time about developers like Activision being so afraid to make new stuff and instead they pump out COD sequel after COD sequel but isn’t Nintendo one of the biggest offenders of sequel/spin-off abuse? Instead of making new IPs they instead invent new gimmicks to make their old IPs seem fresh. It’s like: here’s another 3d Zelda like OOT but this time you control the sword with your butt. Simply sit on the WiiFit balance board and shift your weight to make Link slash his sword.
I agree, Nintendo is one of the worst. Case in point is pretty much the Mother and Fire Emblem series and the Operation Rainfall games. For one, the Mother and Fire Emblem franchises have been (for the most part) shafted for western releases forever AND they’re first-party Nintendo games. Then Nintendo stands in the way of games that are sure to be hits like Xenoblade, Last Story, Pandora’s Tower, and the like until someone basically bribes them to get them released (props to gamestop for that, btw).
It’s like Nintendo doesn’t want to even entertain creativity in the industry. I just hope they don’t stand in the way of English releases of Shin Megami Tensei IV or Soul Hackers, or I’ll be piiiiiiissed…
I’d have gone with the fact that there are 2 New Super Mario Bros games this year. Remember the massive changes between Super Mario Bros to Super Mario Bros 3, Then World then 64? Yeah, not seeing it in the New Super Mario Bros series, and they still have the Baa-ing sheep for some reason, worse, they are in more songs now!
And just wait until you see the amount of recycled content in New Super Mario Bros. 2…
When making an argument like that, you really need to first establish that the two groups you’re talking about – people who complain about too many sequels/lack of new IPs and Nintendo fans – have some kind of significant overlap. Otherwise your entire attempt at making a point on the matter is completely moot.
Except Nintendo has been around for over 30 years, with installments of their franchises coming out twice at maximum on each new console.
COD has had how many sequels just THIS console generation?
I have waaaay too much to say on all this and it is something I groan at a lot. I’ll sum it up really quick with all of this. One; Capcom does not own consoles. Their profits are a completely different scenario than it would be for Sony or Nintendo. Two; people insult both Nintendo sequels and COD sequels stupidly. I’m not a player of COD, but if you asked a person who doesn’t just rage at the game for what it is, I guarantee they can tell you the changes they have made to the game. Nintendo, and since Mario was mentioned, there ARE changes in their game. Different level designs, updated visuals, different selections in music other than just the main theme (Except 3D Land which did recycle some Galaxy tracks), different things to combat, etc. Seriously, how Skyward Sword was insulted in this, have you played that game? If you look at it blandly, “Oh yeah, it’s just Ocarina of Time. Fail, Nintendo”. No, it isn’t. Link can perform different moves than he could in past games, there are new elements added to the gameplay and new strategies to update to the gameplay. Is the core gameplay modified from Ocarina of Time. Yes, and that’s what most sequels ARE. IMPROVEMENTS to the gameplay. The game isn’t going to change into a completely different entity and when they do make major changes, they get panned as well (Like Luigi’s Mansion/Super Mario Sunshine for example when both of those games were great as well). Oh and Nintendo NEVER makes anything new in recent years…except Dillon’s Rolling Western, Golden Sun, Pushmo and others in the past 10 years. What the heck do gamers expect Mario, Zelda and CoD to become? They are going to retain what they are made to be. Mario did change greatly from both 3 to World, tho 64 is a different entity entirely. What about the changes from 64 to Sunshine to Galaxy, huh? The New Super Mario Bros. series does add new stages, new powerups (Tho similar to old ones, they do function differently), and new enemies/bosses. Admittedly, this got way longer than I wanted it to be, but my point remains. If ya don’t like what Nintendo does with Mario and Zelda, don’t buy them. They are still very well made games, they are not broken in the slightest, and even though there are stories about the money Nintendo loses, there is also all the money Nintendo gains. The money Capcom receives doesn’t even compare to Nintendos. I hope I’m not the only one who sees this as I look forward to New Super Mario Bros. 2 and U, not looking at it blindly and seeing what they really did add.
I realize these facts. Still doesn’t help that every game Nintendo makes TO SELL THEIR CONSOLES is the same old games they’ve been making with slight tweaks, then they constantly hold back any promising, breath-of-fresh-air first and third-party game releases just because they don’t want to take any risks whatsoever. They are the bland, sugarfree vanilla ice cream of the industry, IMO.
There are allways a few new Games from Nintendo. For the 3DS its definetly Kid Icarus: Uprising which is a really good Game(!).
Additionally with the Confirmation of Fire Emblem and Monster Hunter TriiG for the 3DS I dont really see that much of a Problem. And yes Monster Hunter was announced about 1.5 year back in the Famitsu for western Audiences. Capcom-Unity just doesn’t want to say that it is coming this Fall even though everyone (who is informed) knows it.
I think Nintendo has constantly tried risks. Mostly with how their games control, cause hell, this whole motion controller/touch screen gameplay has been risky since the very beginning. It either continued to attract people to their games or alienate gamers due to them seeing it as a gimmick. They still continue to make games in different varieties (Kid Icarus was a big push for the 3DS, and I highly doubt Pikmin 3 is stale at all), but the reason why Mario keeps getting the highlights for Nintendo is because it does sell. Hell, name a main Mario title that didn’t sell well. I’ve already explained how they do change Mario and Zelda games and I still believe they release first, second and third party games constantly, either it is continuing a series or something brand new. (Project P-100 for example for the Wii U they are backing strongly). They might lose money due to the economy, competition with other gaming devices, piracy and lack of interest, but despite their losses, Nintendo is still getting a strong profit. Overall, I respect your opinion, but these reasons plus others is why Nintendo continues to be what I stand behind.