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Capcom profits are way down - What’s to blame?

July 31, 2010 in News comments 17

The Kartel reports that Capcom's net income is down for the quarter, but what exactly is to blame for this loss of income? Surely games like Street Fighter can't be losing the company money.

Capcom reported that their net income for their first fiscal quarter, the April – June period, dropped by 90.4% compared to the same period in 2009. What’s to blame?
IrieMars via thekartel.com »
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  • 1
    Newcloud Jul 31, 10
    stop releasing re-hashs of year old game and start patching games and releasing DLC
    • 0
      Dragoon Jul 31, 10
      alternatively they could stop releasing crap games.
      • 1
        Paradox Jul 31, 10
        I quite liked Lost Planet and I love Monster Hunter.

        And yeah, would have preferred Monster Hunter on the PS3. I feel that a younger audience is playing MH now because of the Wii release, which isn't bad, but bothers me a little bit.

        I'm 15 so I shouldn't really be saying this
    • 0
      RaidenXS Jul 31, 10
      they've made a ton of new ip's like lost planet series, dark void, & dead rising
      • 0
        Dragoon Jul 31, 10
        all of which weren't that great imo
        • 1
          Twin_Master Jul 31, 10
          Obviously you guys have never played Monster Hunter.
        • 0
          RaidenXS Aug 5, 10
          my reply was to new cloud as i agree with you
    • 0
      Xeros the Slayer Aug 1, 10
      I dunno, it works pretty well for COD and pretty much every other shooter on the market. So why is it suddenly a problem when Capcom does it?

      Hell they even add new characters, revamp the system and lower the cost when they do it.
      • 0
        Twin_Master Aug 1, 10
        Really annoys me, that does. There actually are improvements!
  • 2
    Bale Fire* Jul 31, 10
    When you take into account Lost Planet 2 (Which was never going to do well) and Monster Hunter Tri (Who's idea was it to put that on the Wii?) as the article suggests, I'm really not surprised.
    • 0
      Twin_Master Jul 31, 10
      They need more commitment to the PSP where it was actually doing extremely well!
      • 0
        Xeros the Slayer Aug 1, 10
        Except in Europe and America, where Monster Hunter's sales only covered about 1% of the series total sales at best.
        • 1
          Seeker X Aug 1, 10
          I wonder if it has to do with the almost complete lack of infrastructure online support for an online multiplayer-dependent game?

          That being said, they could actually stop releasing alternate versions of the same *bleep*ing game as if they were new.
  • 1
    Drogo Baggins Jul 31, 10
    Question:
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    Capcom profits are way down - What’s to blame?
    Answer:

    The lack of MegaMan Legends 3...

    • 1
      Zero and X Jul 31, 10
      quote Drogo Baggins
      Question:
      quote
      Capcom profits are way down - What’s to blame?
      Answer:

      The lack of MegaMan Legends 3...

      Quoted for mother *bleep*ing truth
  • 0
    hoggys2much Aug 1, 10
    That doesn't surprise me 1 bit as they release nothing but total crap like Street Fighter or mediocre games like Resident Evil 5.

    Then proceed to produce the most rubbish DLC's out.

    I am surprised they are still in business.
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    Slumpy monkey Aug 1, 10
    Just poor business practise and lack of promotion really.

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