I'll actually agree with you here. As a teen, I bought Capcom games on PS1 without much of a 2nd thought. If it had Capcom on it, I got it. They were making the games I wanted. PS2/Gamecube era was good but they started losing people like Shinji Mikami. The name Capcom doesn't make anything, it's the people behind that name and they have nothing to do with the old Capcom anymore in that regard.Retrogamer0001 wrote:I think this has been a long time coming, and for fans of Capcom's older games who were quietly shaking their heads in the corner, this is no surprise. Killing Mega Man, butchering the last few Resident Evil games, flat out refusal to resurrect old, popular IPs...just, why? What kind of sense does it make to deny your customers products they're willing to purchase?
Though I realize this isn't a flat out liquidation, I still find it sad, and I think it's a sign of things to come. Hopefully one of the big three will buy into the company and do some of their franchises justice.
Wouldn't it be cool to see Sega buy a controlling share and (along with newly-acquired Atlus) start to quietly build up to releasing new hardware?
Capcom thought they knew better than than us. Rather than listening to fans that want a RE 2 remake, or fans that want a new Dino Crisis or whatever, they could care less. Hey how about a Haunting Ground sequel? They said survival horror wasn't profitable. Yet they had the nerve to call RE 4 a survival horror and it made them a ton of money.
I would assume that I am not the only 30 year old guy who grew up with Capcom games and now no longer cares about them. The youth don't know their history, so who IS their fanbase??
