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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.

Tribute wrote:
> I'd rather have SEGA than have Capcom.

No way! I'd much rather have CAPCOM.

Killer 7 and PN 03 look better.

I'd rather have SEGA than have Capcom.

But Viewtiful Joe looks to be great...

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> Though that might be changing what with Sega's profit margin.
> Apparently a lot of the big name games will be going multi format. But
> if the Nintendo buy out thing is true then we will be in Sega
> heaven.

Perhaps we might see a Shenmue game?

I'd say they weren't. Well at least Xbox seems to have all the new Sega games planned for it at the moment.

Though that might be changing what with Sega's profit margin. Apparently a lot of the big name games will be going multi format. But if the Nintendo buy out thing is true then we will be in Sega heaven.

Unlikely though...

Strafex wrote:
> With Sega favouring the Xbox, the likes of Namco and Konami favouring
> the PS2, it's nice to know that Capcom have taken a shine to the cube.

I'd say SEGA were fairly evenly spread between the 'Cube and X-Box, personally.

Capcom would prbably make more money developing for the Gamecube anyway!

With Sega favouring the Xbox, the likes of Namco and Konami favouring the PS2, it's nice to know that Capcom have taken a shine to the cube.

Killer 7 looks better.

veiwtiful joe looks brilliant, I especially like the superhero guy's costume. I hope to hell they incorporate a multiplayer.