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[Artemisthemp]

Source - http://www.siliconer...-the-year-2022/

By 2022, Capcom’s Chairman and CEO, Kenzo Tsujimoto, aims to turn the company into the world’s #1 provider of digital content. 2022 is a decade away, and while ten years is a long time, Capcom already have short-term goals they’d like to accomplish in order to build up to this long-term objective.

We’ve summarized these goals before. They boil down to:

• Shortening the development times for games.
• Consistently releasing sequels while releasing brand new titles as well.
• Increasing development staff.
• More social/online games for mobile and PC.
• Release DLC (downloadable content) to give console games a longer lifespan.

In a statement to investors, chairman Tsujimoto expounded upon each of these goals in a little more detail. Here’s a quick understanding of what each one involves, just to give you a better idea of what Capcom’s management have in mind.

Shortening development times: Capcom hope to reduce development times from the usual 3-4 years to only 2.5 years. Speeding up development times will increase the cost of development, but Capcom believe that creating quality content quickly is vital to their ability to remain competitive.

Consistent sequels while creating brand new games: Shortening development times will mean that games in popular brands will see more frequent releases, but Capcom also say they intend to keep releasing brand new games. While brand new titles with low awareness are unlikely to be a hit the first time around, Capcom say they will keep investing in new games and develop them into new sources of earnings.

Increasing development staff: Over the next decade, Capcom plan to hire about 1,000 employees, adding over 100 developers every year. This is because advances in technology and platforms will demand increased development staff that are trained to keep up. Capcom plan to hire and train their own talent internally, and nurture the next generation of creators.

More social/online games for mobile and PC: Capcom expect that the market for mobile content will double between 2012 and 2016, and that the PC online games market will increase by 126% during the same time. Thus, they will invest heavily in both these areas to take advantage of the market.

DLC for traditional games: Unlike mobile and PC online, Capcom don’t expect to see an increase in the realm of packaged software. However, they do expect growth of about 26% in the packaged software category after factoring in DLC sales. In fiscal year 2011, Capcom made 2.8 billion yen ($35 million) in DLC sales. For fiscal year 2012, they expect to increase this number to 3.5 billion yen ($43.8 million).

For the ongoing fiscal year (FY2012), Capcom hope to reach 105 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in net sales for the first time, and expect to see record high figures for all income categories, owing to a strong slate of upcoming titles such as Resident Evil 6,DmC Devil May Cry and the recently released Dragon’s Dogma.

Looks like I was right in boycott $ashcom

[TehCro]

What's a sashcom?

[SteelSammy]

You see, I would boycott Capcom with you Artemis- if they ever made a game I wanted to play, which they currently don't. But, where did you make these predictions?

What's a sashcom?

CASH-com, mocking CAPCOM. I was gonna go with CrapCom.

[skidmarkgn]

Can't say I see what the problem is with their goals but if you wanna miss out on the great games that come out under their name... more power to you. I personally Love the Dead Rising games and Asura's wrath is one of my top games of this consoles generation. Dragon's Dogma is very high up on my radar as well. That's 2 original IP's that I think kick ass to go along with sequels to a fairly strong franchise. Add on DMC, lost planet and RE6 bit later and you have a pretty strong line up.
Personally, I don't get why gamers are always so eager to find things to bitch about instead of just playing games they enjoy. Hell, half the time, even if they do enjoy the game they'll still actively search for something to bitch about anymore. If the industry is so terrible and all they want to do is rip you off in your mind then go find a new hobby.

[A12621A]

While I do agree that this is total BS.

I am still not going to Not buy RE6.

[d3m0nd00d]

It actually sounds like a pretty good business plan to me. Capcom is in business to make money - the key is to make money and keep the consumer happy, which in turn will make you more money. Wait and see how the second part of the formula pans out before you boycott them.

[Artemisthemp]

It actually sounds like a pretty good business plan to me. Capcom is in business to make money - the key is to make money and keep the consumer happy, which in turn will make you more money. Wait and see how the second part of the formula pans out before you boycott them.

You don't make Costumers happy by locking Content on the Disc and then selling it for $60, which make the game cost $120 or taking $1.99 for 8 hair Styles on Day 1

[d3m0nd00d]

You don't make Costumers happy by locking Content on the Disc and then selling it for $60, which make the game cost $120 or taking $1.99 for 8 hair Styles on Day 1

lol - come on dood that's the old Capcom, this is the new Capcom with a 10 year game plan. I'm sure they will NEVER do that again.

[Stevieboy]

lol - come on dood that's the old Capcom, this is the new Capcom with a 10 year game plan. I'm sure they will NEVER do that again.

Apparently they actually won't be doing that again:

http://www.capcom-un..._of_on-disc_dlc

[Sonic]

I don't see the point of video game company boycotts. One, it's only hurting the industry (if it's say, Nintendo or Sony), which kinda goes against what being a gamer is about. Two, a lot of these people that say they're gonna boycott these companies buy their games anyway when something they want comes out (like RE6)

[AndroidFox]

Apparently they actually won't be doing that again:

http://www.capcom-un..._of_on-disc_dlc

It's nice to see Capcom address that issue, most publishers would have just ignored the complaints.

[Wandererster]

With 3 versions of Street Fighter 4, 2 versions of RE5, 2 versions of MVC3 released in the same year & Vita SFVT gets all character rosters compared to its PS3 counterpart, I can understand why people are displeased at CAPCOM.

[Sonic]

With 3 versions of Street Fighter 4, 2 versions of RE5, 2 versions of MVC3 released in the same year & Vita SFVT gets all character rosters compared to its PS3 counterpart, I can understand why people are displeased at CAPCOM.

You can't really complain about two versions of a game that are actually spaced out at least a year, especially one packaged with all the DLC. Most other GOTY editions release around that same timeframe.

I do agree with the Marvel Vs Capcom 3 thing though. I don't even agree with the 'game of the year' idea for fighting games, I don't think fighters need it. They definitely shouldn't have released it a matter of months after MvC3 though.

I never played Street Fighter, so I can't really say much there. I have noticed that they have been doing this to Street Fighter since Street Fighter 2 though. You ever see how many versions of that there are?

[Wandererster]

You can't really complain about two versions of a game that are actually spaced out at least a year, especially one packaged with all the DLC. Most other GOTY editions release around that same timeframe.

I do agree with the Marvel Vs Capcom 3 thing though. I don't even agree with the 'game of the year' idea for fighting games, I don't think fighters need it. They definitely shouldn't have released it a matter of months after MvC3 though.

I never played Street Fighter, so I can't really say much there. I have noticed that they have been doing this to Street Fighter since Street Fighter 2 though. You ever see how many versions of that there are?

I know SF's previous versions multiple versions of it. The only difference is that before SF4 was released, they said there's going to stop putting super, hyper or whatever they can think of. In the end they released SUPER SF4, same for SSF4 arcade, when the arcade SSF4 can they denied that it will never have a console version. In the end they release it for the consoles.

[LordHiroRose]

Now this does have me perplexed. I will admit that I like the sound of them producing more games at a quicker pace and creating sequels for existing games, I have my doubts about the quality of them. They are known for their underhanded tactics of locking things away on the disc and of purposely removing content just to charge us down the road. I suppose all we can do is wait and see.

[Artemisthemp]

With 3 versions of Street Fighter 4, 2 versions of RE5, 2 versions of MVC3 released in the same year & Vita SFVT gets all character rosters compared to its PS3 counterpart, I can understand why people are displeased at CAPCOM.

HAHA you are wrong.

There is 7 version of SF 4

[Wandererster]

HAHA you are wrong.

There is 7 version of SF 4

Can you tell me the ones I missed?

Unless its the 3DS SSF4 3d Edition or the SF 25th Anniversary Collector Set.

[Artemisthemp]

Can you tell me the ones I missed?

Unless its the 3DS SSF4 3d Edition or the SF 25th Anniversary Collector Set.

Seem I got the wrong number http://www.capcom-un...num=1#251831469

[Pie]

Personally, I don't get why gamers are always so eager to find things to bitch about instead of just playing games they enjoy.

It's not OK to exploit your customer base. Capcom's current business practices like exclusive game-unbalancing pre-order DLC (SFvTekken), on-disc DLC (SFvTekken), charging twice the going rate for old re-releases that take almost no effort to port (RE4, RE:CVX), constantly re-releasing the game game for more money instead of providing it as DLC or (heaven forbid) for free (SF4, SSF4, SSF4AE, MVC3, UMVC3) and running their series into the ground until they're completely unrecognisable and a complete slap in the face to their old fans (RE5, RE6).

If we as consumers give Capcom our money we tell them this is OK. It's not OK. It's so very far from OK. We need to make it clear that we don't like being exploited else ten years down the line we're going to be screwed utterly.

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With regards to what you posted, Art, I see no issue with that. More developers is good, shorter development periods, as long as they don't sacrifice quality, is good, more DLC as long as the DLC is fairly priced and not exploitative in any way is good. It's what Capcom's doing already that's awful.

[Deth]

This would have been cool if the games they were making were as epic as the ones that they made in the 90's!

- Demon's Crest
- Resident Evil
- Resident Evil 2
- Dino Crisis

The list goes on.