Today Capcom released a statement refuting these comments, reaffirming their commitment to supporting all gaming platforms, Wii and DS included. The company stated that, “Further to comments made in a recent article on French website Gamekult, Capcom would like to confirm its commitment as a multi-platform developer and publisher of interactive software."
Capcom has several high-profile Wii titles approaching release, including Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars and Monster Hunter 3. It is not known, however, if they will continue to offer mature-rated games on the console after the underwhelming initial performance of Darkside Chronicles.
Seux's comments came on the heels of Sega Studio Director Constantine Hantzopoulos telling 1UP that his company was unlikely to produce M-Rated Wii titles going forward.
This is the Capcom version of that Sega story.
1 guy isolated in his department making generalized statements that sound like he is speaking for the company as a whole.
Oooh someone got a big slap on the wristies!
reaffirming their commitment to supporting all gaming platforms
and foretold a development shift towards PS3 and Xbox 360, especially since motion control will soon be available on both platforms.
all capcom really needs to do is make Zack & Wiki 2
Zack & Wiki sold 126,000 copies despite high reviews and positive word of mouth (http://kotaku.com/5443726/in-a-twist-it-was-capcoms-cheerful-wii-game-that-flopped). I don't think a sequel would sell exceptionally well.
Take the case of third-party publisher Capcom, whose stock rose to afive-year high in September, 2007 due to increased support for the Wii,according to the company.
At the time, its CFO spoke enthusiastically about Capcom's Wiiportfolio -- which had doubled from three to six games -- and waspoised to publish Zack & Wiki: Quest For Barbaros' Treasure thenext month.
But Chris Kramer, Capcom senior director of communications andcommunity, said even though "it was one of the highest-rated Wii gamesand was beloved by the media, it sold abysmally -- about 120,000 units in 26 months -- for no apparent reason.
for no apparent reason.
But Dead Rising and Lost Planet both had huge multi-million dollar marketing campaigns as well. When these games were released you had ads all over big mainstream television spots here in the US and low and behold, both games sold very well here. In comparison, the only marketing Capcom has done with with it's Wii games is some web banners on Gamefaqs.
Had Capcom given Zack and Wiki the same advertising budget Lost Planet got to have, the game probably would have done a hell of a lot better and we'd all be looking forward to Zack and Wiki XYZ 5 Turbo in March.
