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"CAPCOM buy out? Not quite..."

A week or so back, there were rumours all over the place regarding this MEGATON announcement (which we are STILL yet to hear about). Well, one of them was a CAPCOM buy out which looked very tasty and likely indeed, what with the recent Resident Evil series.

However, with most rumours, this wasn't one-hundred-percent true, though there's some good in it. You see, Shinji Mikami heads CAPCOM's Production Studio Four, and is acclaimed for his Resident Evil and Devil May Cry series. He's also just announced five exclusives for the GameCube:

Resident Evil 4
Killer 7
Viewtiful Joe
Dead Phoenix
Product Number 03

But you already know that, or you SHOULD, at least (if not, see Whitestripes), so where's this news? Well, the beauty of it all lies in the fact that Shinji Mikami has now announced that CAPCOM's Production Studio Four will only work on GameCube games from now on.

Isn't that great? Five new exclusives (not to mention Project Devil, and the rest of the Resident Evil series) from a division of CAPCOM, now confirmed to work only for Nintendo's great machine.

===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Ahhh... so that's why they're on track to becomming the second biggest
> publishers in the world is it?

Somebody told me (in the midst of the buyout rumours) that they were having money problems. Maybe they were wrong. Where did you get your info from?

Yes, exactly

They are doing an EA

Lots of games, all quite average/poor.

Maverick42 wrote:
> Sega are very much going downhill. Shame, really. After games such
> as..
>
> Crazy Taxi
> Virtua Striker 3
> Super Monkey Ball
> Sonic Adventure 2
> SEGA GT 2002
> Shenmue
>
> ..it's obvious to see why they're doing poorly in the industry.



Ahhh... so that's why they're on track to becomming the second biggest publishers in the world is it?

Sonic

Sega are very much going downhill. Shame, really. After games such as..

Crazy Taxi
Virtua Striker 3
Super Monkey Ball
Sonic Adventure 2
SEGA GT 2002
Shenmue

..it's obvious to see why they're doing poorly in the industry.

I think SEGA have been making a lot of rubbish recently.

But I can't be bothered to go into it so you should probably ignore what I just said :)

I prefer CAPCOM/Capcom games to SEGA/Sega ones anyway.

Not much of a reason.

Maybe because I'm biased.

:)

===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Strafex wrote:
> You are joking about Sega right? If you look at their 2003 released,
> 50% of them are for the PS2 with the rest evenly spread across the GC,
> Xbox, GBA and arcade.

I thought they were giving the Xbox the best, with the new Panza Dragoon game and franchises like Crazy Taxi and Shenmue as exclusive.
Still, it makes no difference to my REAL point about how Capcom are firmly giving their best to Nintendo! :-P

We do.

Thus we should speak of SAMSUNG, GATEWAY, TESCO and MANIC STREET PREACHERS.

Many companies have logos in which their name appears in CAPS, but none of them refer to themselves in this way when replying to correspondence.

Sonic

Because on the logos for the companys it is written in all caps, CAPCOM and SEGA.

Nintendo and most others are spelt normally, Nintendo.