Microsoft purchases Capcom..

[Chaos]

http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/01/12/rumor-ms-has-purchased-capcom/

Resident Evil, Dead Rising and MegaMan will soon be MS exclusives.

[MikePizzoff]

This is great news to me!

[bassman]

Sounds great.

Now they need to get Rockstar Games for the next GTA.

[Chaos]

Sounds great.

Now they need to get Rockstar Games for the next GTA.

GTA is so five minutes ago. MS could probably buy Rockstar with the spare change in Bill Gates' ash tray.

[CoinReturn]

Its just a rumor. It would be cool, seeing as they've had the most success on the 360 than they've had in a looong time (their Gamecube plans didn't exactly pan out). Dead Rising 2 should be great, regardless of what system its on. Capcom is easily my favorite 3rd party developer/publisher of all time, and I hope they do well wherever they go.

And about GTA, at least Microsoft had the foresight to acquire 2 exclusive episodes for GTA IV, which you can download from Live when the game comes out.

[Rottedfreak]

With the way things are running games can no longer afford to be exclusives, there rumors that Metal Gear Solid 4 will come out on Xbox 360, that all began when Hideo Kojima stated he could do it for the 360 and said theres really little difference between the two consoles.

[Maitreya]

Score one more for the 360

[capncnut]

To be fair, ALL games should be multi-format but I can't help but raise a smile for ol' Gatesy. He's got determination to say the very least...



...oh, and cash. :sneaky:

[bassman]

GTA is so five minutes ago. MS could probably buy Rockstar with the spare change in Bill Gates' ash tray.

:rockbrow:

They're still making the games, chief. And they just get better and better. And more fun, might I add.

[Khardis]

If MS owned Capcom, I am guessing they would still let Capcom develope for other companies, since it still means $$$ for MS, the only REAL difference would be that MS gets to cut out a LOT of exclusives away from Sony and Sony would essentially be paying MS to use thier games.

[Tricky]

I dont mind using microsoft products,but why do they have to keep buying out every single company that could possibly rival them in terms of games?next it'll be ubisoft,activision,Nintendo,sega,Electronic arts etc.Then there wont be a console market because you will have to buy microsoft if you want to play games,there wont be a choice.People keep ranting on about sony,but at least they arent trying to literally take over the world!

They are the Forth Reich of the entertainment & computing industry

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/e/5/b/e5b0e2e03d6b3da61451c224977f33d8.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/blokeatback/resources/files/bill_gates-smart_tag-ayb.jpg

[axlish]

****ty news actually. I hope this doesn't derail the Wii exclusive Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. I can't deny that the 360 would be the best format for RE.

[Danny]

To be fair, ALL games should be multi-format but I can't help but raise a smile for ol' Gatesy. He's got determination to say the very least...



...oh, and cash. :sneaky:

i agree exclusives suck for people who dont own all three, i got rid of my ps2 for an xbox but tons of games like metal gear 3 ,silent hill 3, the siren series and whatnot came out, granted i got halo and half life 2 but exclusives from a company may mean more sales but for us gaemrs means never playing all the best games unless we shell out some major credits for the consoles first.


still if its true damn friggin good move, if they did that with square enix as well even ninty would be worried.
they should purchase silicon knights and get em to make a sequel to enternal darkness.


I dont mind using microsoft products,but why do they have to keep buying out every single company that could possibly rival them in terms of games?next it'll be ubisoft,activision,Nintendo,sega,Electronic arts etc.Then there wont be a console market because you will have to buy microsoft if you want to play games,there wont be a choice.People keep ranting on about sony,but at least they arent trying to literally take over the world!

They are the Forth Reich of the entertainment & computing industry

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/e/5/b/e5b0e2e03d6b3da61451c224977f33d8.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/blokeatback/resources/files/bill_gates-smart_tag-ayb.jpg


first off, lol, duh!, second it does sound like "the man buying out the little guy" but if sega ,nintendo, and microsoft with all the others like squareenix, capcom, konami and the like worked as one for one cosole, it may be cheaper in the long run and means a lot of quality gaems and if it brought an end to the whole consoel war games wouldnt have to be ported/ rushed to get out before a rival consoel does.

[Khardis]

Capcom stated that this is just a 3 year old rumor probably circulating again because of thier recent spat of 360 games. This is not true.

[MinionZombie]

Likewise, everyone under one roof for one console and no competition could mean stale products, lack of innovation and so forth.

[Terran]

This apparently is an old and untrue rumour that resurfaced...

From Gamespot

Microsoft (not) buying Capcom? Sources: See below.

The official story: "Microsoft does not comment on rumors or speculation." -- Microsoft rep. As for Capcom...see below.

What we heard: It's no secret that Microsoft wants to break into the Japanese game market--badly. When the Xbox 360 launched in late 2005, it allocated a third of its launch stock to the island nation--where half of it gathered dust on store shelves while bored shopkeepers stood by picking their noses.

Microsoft has also tried the software approach, hiring Japanese game-design legends such as Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and Space Channel mastermind Tetsuya Mizuguchi to make Xbox 360 exclusives. Unfortunately, the latter's first effort, Ninety-Nine Nights, fizzled on both sides of the Pacific. However, the former's debut, Blue Dragon, fared as well as an Xbox 360 game can in Japan, given the platform's limited base. It sold more than 80,000 units in its first four days on the Japanese market last fall.

Still, Microsoft hasn't spent tens of millions in Japan to eke out modest hits. So the fact that it might opt to acquire a major Japanese publisher seems perfectly plausible, given its near-bottomless bank account. Thus was spawned this week's top rumor, which had Microsoft buying Capcom, the developer-publisher behind the Resident Evil series, outright.

Sure, it makes sense. Capcom has made two critically acclaimed Xbox 360 games, Dead Rising and Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. (Look for the latter's review on GameSpot later today.) And Microsoft is flush with cash--$35 billion in reserves as of last summer, according to Reuters. So why not drop a relatively small chunk of change to take on Sony and Nintendo on their home turf?

However, plausibility does not equal reality. And in this case, the reality is that, for the time being, Microsoft is not buying Capcom. Apparently this latest orgy of speculation is an ancient rumor, resurrected by a Japanese blog promising a "On January 11th in game industry large announcement," according to a clunky Babel Fish translation. That, in turn, prompted a huge forum thread on the new Gaming Age forums, the Star Wars cantina of game gossip, which led to another post on the EvilAvatar forums, a top virtual water cooler for the overexcited gamer. Then came RSS feeds, rampant content poaching and...well, you do the math.

While Microsoft quickly raised its boilerplate defense shields (Q: "Is the world flat?" A: "Microsoft does not comment on rumors or speculation."), Capcom was more forthcoming. "It's a 3-year-old rumor, most likely refueled by our recent spate of 360 titles," a rep told GameSpot.

Bogus or not bogus?: BOGUS. "No soup for you! You come back, one year!"