Capcom: PS3 has reached "full swing"
- Posted September 3rd, 2008 at 06:28 EDT by
- 21 Comments
Legendary Japanese publisher Capcom thinks the PlayStation 3 is starting to realise its market potential. In a conference call held for the firm's Q1 financial results, Capcom commented that the success of certain landmark PS3 exclusives together with Sony's current pricing strategy boded well for the future.
"We believe that PS3 has finally reached full swing after looking at the success of Metal Gear Solid 4, as well as future large-scale title line-ups," reads the transcript.
"In addition, some reduction in the PS3's price was announced at the 2008 E3, and we can expect its spread to increase by next March when our Resident Evil 5 for PS3 will be released."
Capcom isn't planning on abandoning the PS3's competitors anytime soon, though. "As we are not only focusing on PS3, we would also like to spread our supply of software evenly between Wii and Xbox 360 while their markets in the world increase in a similar manner to PS3."
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FrostyCass |
Eyedentify- 6:51am BST - September 3rd, 2008
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So basically there saying "We were to chicken to support the company that made us money in the past earlier on cause Sony's #'s was too low, further more money is more important to us than commitment and loyalty".....
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jigglespsu
- 6:59am BST - September 3rd, 2008
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@2 Yes that's rather profound
@3 It's called risk analysis. You can't start throwing millioins into projects when you don't have any install base. PS3 is a very different console from what developers have been used to and that is inherently risky.
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richkaos |
richkaos- 7:10am BST - September 3rd, 2008
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@4 Risk analysys???? Its hardly as if they would be taking a gamble is it, its not as if Sony Playstation is an unknown brand, an unknown quantity! It is purely down to the fact that they would make more money (at present) from 360's etc.
They effectivly are just waiting till they deem the PS3 market large enough to warrant the dev costs, they dont give a toss about the brand or loyallty, its a business and its all down to money FULL STOP
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jigglespsu
- 9:44am BST - September 3rd, 2008
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@ richkaos. It is all about the money but at the same time any change in strategy is a risk including supporting a platform that is new. Especially when you take into account all the scare-mongering that was hitting the press at the time of launch, the PR blunders, the delays, the high price point .. surely you haven't forgotten already. I'm sure that they woud have taken the dev costs on the chin if they saw the PS3 being a safe bet. They deemed this to be a risk until the PS3 (the console, not the brand) had sufficient momentum to mitigate losses.
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H3LiX
- 11:31am BST - September 3rd, 2008
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I would not say it's in "full swing" quite yet. Not in game development anyways. Yes, maybe in the business aspect.
The PS3 will be in "full swing" when developers become more familiar with the machine and begin utilising the full potential of the hardware. For example, Killzone 2, from what I gather only uses 6 of the machines 8 "cores".
It reminds me of the Playstation 2. Look at the early titles of the PS2 and they look pants. Look at the latest generation of PS2 games and they look amazing when you compare them (I'm a PS2 owner aswell). I suspect the same will happen with the Playstation 3.
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DaSaint |
DaSaint- 12:39pm BST - September 3rd, 2008
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@Frostycass I second that
Only now capcom realized this....Konami knew ps3 was gonna be a success and they stuck to their guns..but here come capcom now try to d!c k ride sony now they have a good install base...capcom you still full of s h!t and still are sell outs
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dwightkshrute |
IAMTHECAVALRY- 1:09pm BST - September 3rd, 2008
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just wish more developers were loyal like Konami (kojima), i hope MGS4 never sees the light of day on the 360 and i hope more and more developers stay loyal. Especially after rumours of KH3 exclusive to PS3, and some sort of Rockstar exclusive, ppl assuming its Red Dead Revolver 2.
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LegendaryAim |
LegendaryAim- 1:40pm BST - September 3rd, 2008
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Capcom how about giving us the exclusive rights back to the games that we built into legacies
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zombieking36
- 2:56pm BST - September 3rd, 2008
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k well if they deliever quality we can stop saying "crapcom" finally... But, RE5 will own, though i think that Gears style is a FAIL.
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FrostyCass |
Eyedentify- 11:11pm BST - September 3rd, 2008
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@jigglespsu - I agree with your comment, from a financial and business point of view it makes sense. If I was running Capcom I wouldn't want to go Bankrupt from loss of sales because a system didn't have the install base to support and make money from the develpment of the game. My comment more reflect relationship in the past and now. This will be water under the bridge nexted year as Sony continues to build however I do Digress , " commitment and loyalty" has a powerfull effect as well. Some balance needs to be achived I believe.
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