Capcom cans 18 games

[OB1]

From Games Are Fun:

Capcom cans 18
Reuters revealed today that Capcom has cancelled 18 titles. According to the press agency, Capcom lost a lot of money during the 2002-2003 fiscal year due to the poor sales of games like Resident Evil 0, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, P.N.03, Chaos Legion, and Clock Tower.

... What's wrong with you people?

Anyway, as a result, the company has put a stop to titles they feel have very little financial potential. There's been no word on what they are, but, certainly, if they're important games that have been talked about at length, their absence will be conspicuous. We'll have more soon.
Source: Reuters

Posted by Soul4ger on 4.18.2003

Damn, eighteen games?? Let's try to guess which ones they'll be.

[EdenMaster]

If it's Resident Evil 4, I'm blowing up the main office of Capcom.

[OB1]

I seriously doubt that they'd can RE4.

[Sacred Jellybean]

...if it's any of the big 5, PARTICULARLY the cell-shaded game, HEADS WILL FUCKING ROLL.

Seriously... if that's the case... God help me... I don't give a rats ass about another fucking Resident Evil, but if its any of the other "big 5" for GameCube, I'm going to be really disappointed.

[EdenMaster]

You never know, OB1.

[OB1]

Yeah I really want to see Killer 7, Beanjo.

[A Black Falcon]

Eighteen games? Wow, that is a lot... wonder what all got canned...

[OB1]

Hopefully that really awful-looking Mega Man game for the Gamecube.

[A Black Falcon]

Mega Man Battle Network: Transmission? It doesn't look that good, no... but if it does come out I can't help but buy it... :)

[OB1]

:hammer:

[Darunia]

Resident Evil 0, Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, P.N.03, Chaos Legion, and Clock Tower.

Well, at least they didn't blame it ENTIRELY on RE0 and it's gamecube line up...that's a little reassuring. I did my part for Capcom; I bought REMake and RE0...(even if both of them were 2nd hand...)...does that matter?

[OB1]

If they were second hand then you did nothing to support Capcom. They don't get any money from second hand sales.

[A Black Falcon]

But... its 2d Mega Man! How can I resist? I mean, not buying Mega Man Legends/64 was easy... that game was really terrible... but this is 2d, so I have hope. :)

[Darunia]

:(

[OB1]

Because it looks like crap, ABF.

[A Black Falcon]

But its not out yet so we don't know for sure...

[OB1]

Just about every gaming site that has had played the game say that it's pretty boring.

[Great Rumbler]

If Viewtiful Joe is one of the games that got cancelled I will swim to Japan and punch the president of Capcom right in the face!!

Anyway, this is very bad news that Capcom is doing so bad and had to cancel all those games. Hopefully none of them are games that I wanted...

[OB1]

I doubt they'll can Viewtiful Joe. They're probably just canning some early-in-development titles. Hopefully that doesn't include Killer 7.

[Darunia]

Fortunately enough for me, the only Capcom game I was even looking forward to was RE4...so I'm fairly safe.
One things for sure; this won't look good for Nintendo. I imagine quite a few people are blaming this squarely on the Nintendo-Capcom marriage.:D

[OB1]

Sony and MS fanboys will use anything to bash Nintendo, so who gives a damn. Capcom listed more bad-selling PS2 titles than GC ones.

[A Black Falcon]

Uh... the gameplay movies don't look THAT bad...

[OB1]

But it doesn't look good either, does it?

[A Black Falcon]

Well, if you're asking if it looks like its as good as X4-6, or Megaman Zero on GBA, no, it doesn't. But how it will turn out isn't certain yet... I hope...

[OB1]

I've heard that it's very bland.

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah... have you watched IGN's gameplay videos from a while back? It looked alright but not great...

The question is, how did it end up this way? The Mega Man sidescrollers have been consistently great ever since the series got off the NES!

[Darunia]

What are we talking about now.

[OB1]

pizza?

[Great Rumbler]

Pizza? I thought we were talking about Mega Man Battle Network: Transmission...

[OB1]

Did you click on the link?

[Great Rumbler]

Yes.

[OB1]

... I... I'm there.

[A Black Falcon]

So?

As for MMBN:T, hey, I can hope, can't I?

Question!

Mega Man or Megaman?

[Sacred Jellybean]

Mega Man makes more sense, Megaman looks better (maybe because that's how I've seen it other places).