Who should buy out Capcom?

Who should buy out Capcom?

Disney

No one. They fuck up constantly but when they release a good game it's fucking great. No one else does combat as good as them.

Every other hunting game is shit compared to monhun, dragon's dogma was fantastic. If they shit they bed for 2 more years then give me Deep Down that will likely be better than everything that most other companies accomplished in that time.

Buy out? Are capcom already under contract with another company or something?
Buy out and buy are two different things

Why doesn't Sup Forums buy a company? I wouldn't scam your guys I swear..

sony

sega or nintendo

Ninty or Sony; I'd love to see Sup Forums have a meltdown over either of this.

Either way it's a win win, but I can't buy think they'll lose their shit more if it was Sony that beat them to the punch.

sony or sega is only correct choice

I can sort of see Bamco snatching up something.

nintendo

Sega, Microsoft, and or Namco.

no one. grab the feel talented people that are still there like itsuno and the people behind the battle system of mvci. and buy their IPs
Darkstalkers to ArcSys, RE to Sega/Bamco and so on
>>/biz/

steam

That time when Atlus was up for grabs was one hell of a ride.

>Darkstalkers to ArcSys
Enough of this meme already.

Hi Crapcom employee
Nintendo. I'd say Sony, but I doubt they'd know what to do with their IP's, and would likely outsource the games to EA, who would have it over to the retards who did the character animation/modeling/facial animation for ME:A.

sony can barely sustain itself without producing interactive movies. most of the franchise capcom own would remain dead. so nothing would change.
with other companies we can actually have hope

Nintendo would turn dmc into a platformer, and monhun into a platformer, and megaman into a gokart game.

What the fuck is /biz/ actually? What the fuck is a bitcoin? It sounds like a bunch of mumbo jumbo that's like a pyramid scheme with fake money to gain real money but I'm probably too retarded to understand it. Why don't they talk about stocks or something?

Implying Nintendo would even know how to treat Capcom's IP's right, when they can't even get their own IP's straight. Nintendo would run all those classic IP's to the ground like they did with their own.

>dmc into a platformer
DmC
>monhun into a platformer
More like a pokemon-type title.
>megaman into a gokart game
Crapcom beat you to it 3 generations ago.

I wouldn't mind a megaman gokart game if you were constantly able to shoot, plus you could collect weapons from other racers in grand prix mode.

>and would likely outsource the games to EA

You're so full of shit. How ironic that you mention outsourcing properties, when Nintendo outsourced the Metroid series to shitty Mecury Steam devs. How do you expect Nintendo to get it right when they've proven time and time again that they're incompetent when it comes to classic IP's?

>Crapcom beat you to it 3 generations ago.
Yeah, at one point Capcom was trying to turn Megaman into a multi-genre mascot like Mario. Board games, soccer, racing, there was a bunch of it. But it never caught on.

>Nintendo outsourced the Metroid series to shitty Mecury Steam devs.
That happened to make a solid 2D Metroid game like the fans wanted.
Pot, meet kettle.

This game literally already exists.

Because all the cripto currency fags were forced to out of Sup Forums and into /biz/. There was a time when actual biz related stuff was talked about but they soon realized that most of the fags who come to this site know jack shit about biz.

Honestly... Valve

>solid 2D Metroid game like the fans wanted

I got what I wanted last year. 'Samus Returns' is a cheap cash grab.

>Sega

Too incompetent in general. Look what happened to their existing UP.

>Nintendo

Only if the Capcom brand became subsidiary. Nintendo in house would not know what to do with all those existing Capcom IP, because of their obsession to having to be innovative every sequel.

>Sony

Just have a gut feeling it wouldn't work out so well.

I'm still trying to get this rom working. Fucking Virtual Machines.

Third Strike is the shittiest SF game. Anyone who thinks otherwise didn't play it at the time and retroactively decided it was amazing upon seeing EVO moment 37.

If they don't end up selling the properties individually, I rather Sony acquire the company for DMC 5 alone.

Give DMC and all the Clover studios games to platnium. Have Itsuno work at platnium too, the rest idgaf.

Fuck you they did a good job, better than Federation Force at least

duh, Nintendo of course.

I haven't enjoyed a single plat game as much as the classics or even clover games themselves.

Looking at the videos that's pretty much what I was thinking of except with like eight players on the track at all times.

>AM2R shill
Nothing to see here.

sega buying atlus is the best thing to happened to atlus. you have no idea what your talking about...

I'd rather Disney buy Capcom then have Nintendo ruin it.

Whoever will revive Battle Network

Nintendo doesn't need any of their IPs, honestly.
>Zelda vs Okami
>Smash vs Street Fighter
>Bayonetta vs DMC
>Mario, Kirby, DK vs Mega Man
The only one I can see Nintendo being interested in is Monster Hunter

Not him but you're off your fucking rocker, Disney is the worst fate for any company or IP. My interest in anything flatlines after Disney acquires it. Fuck Disney

Disney is destroying Marvel in both MCU and comics, now even in the games. See MVC:I.

Isn't it sad how Nintendo can't even make a good Metroid game? That Mercury Steam and a basement dweller can preserve classic games better then Sakamoto and the rest off those clowns?

Ike & the Marvel writers is responsible for screwing up Marvel. Disney just allows them to write Star Wars comics.

Sega.

Somehow I feel like any of any of Nintendo, SEGA, Sony, or Microsoft would make better use of Capcom's properties than Capcom at this point. But I'd have to hand it to Nintendo.

SEGA would no doubt invest a lot in trying to make Capcom's properties work. And Atlus etc appear to be doing fine under SEGA. But SEGA are still kind of all over the place a lot of the time.

Microsoft too would likely actually try to make it work. Though I wouldn't trust Microsoft's executive meddling and what direction they would take their properties. But Capcom has the interesting traits of being highly popular in both the west and east alike. And Microsoft have been trying futilely to get a foothold in Japan and the Asian market for ages to no avail. They'd likely see this as their chance to actually succeed for once and invest money in it.

Sony would likely do more with their properties than Capcom, but Sony would still be the ones I'd want it to end up with the least out of these. Sony does some great stuff and they would surely do some great stuff with Capcom's properties too.
However, Sony just can't seem to keep a single franchise/property alive for long. To the point that in spite of numerous attempts they never managed to nurture a mascot or any recognizable face and they could barely even assemble anything noteworthy for Sony All-Stars.
They have countless successful albeit short lived properties under their belt. But they just can't seem to manage to keep any of them around for long and that just kind of sucks in general.

Now say what you will about Nintendo. They're far from perfect. But they really have to be one of the best in the industry at managing and keeping up with old brands and franchises. And that's in spite of not bringing back that one franchise you really want them to bring back. They'd likely treat Megaman equally to their own brands of Mario, Donkey Kong, Metroid, and others. While also taking good care of their other properties.

You focus on the Atlus exception while I focus on Sega's general performance. I wouldn't risk it with them.

Microsoft buys Capcom, and we get a new Dino Crisis game. Anyone not opposed to this?

No thanks no no no no

I'd rather have Capcom just go out and not sell off their stuff than have Nintendo take over

What the fuck is a cripto currency? Like Dave&Buster's shit?

Crapcom death when?
After World fails. The Nintendo curse is real, Yamauchi is still watching over.

Really? Because as stated, I'd rather take anyone of the above mentioned than Capcom just doing fuckall as they've been doing for all these years already.

It's as if nothing exists for Capcom aside from Street Fighter and Monster Hunter nowadays. They're just leaving everything else to rot or something.

That's a good comparison. But it's a "currency" that is generated by computers so it's popular with the get rich quick fags.

>buy out

more like merger with SNK

finally

Blame that senile fuck Miyamoto for Star Fox and Paper Mario going to shit

go away retard

Does it have any actual value or is it just autism?

Blizzard

Nintendo barely goes out there to buy things when it's a big deal, so Sega, least they'd know how to handle fighting games right. Sony basically owns Capcom by now by funding their shit and you see how that is turning out.

Mega Moba

Probably Nintendo

>take better care of capcom's ips
>tend to wring the best out of external studios
>close ties with plat will get plat straight back on their clover titles
>one platform for development
>performance first mentality aligns well with capcom
>actually have some fucking money so games won't run out of budget mid way through
>not afraid to delay games
>good synergy with capcoms ips and their own fanbase
>shu takumi will be given a second chance, finally
>dat nu smash roster

Nintendo have previously made a bid for Capcom, I'd say they are the company that is most interested in a partnership with them, the only real downside is no Capcom on PC.

It has theoretical pretend value. Remember when you were a kid with Pokemon cards and everyone valued Charizards at $50 for whatever reason? It's like that. People are hoarding the meme currency like it has actual value, just like people who hoarded Beanie Babies or Pokemon cards and swore they were worth the investment they put into them.

Sony hasn't funded anything besides SFV and Deep Down.

wrong nintendo only keeps the popular series alive plus they would try to change it plus everything would have to be kids and suck ass

As an aside, Nintendo are the frontrunner for a Capcom buyout but Capcom more than likely won't look at a buyout and instead will liquidate their studios and sell of their IPs, the Capcom execs are notorious for being the second worst in the industry behind Microsoft.

>plus they would try to change it plus everything would have to be kids and suck ass
What?

>sonybro can't accept the truth
as expected

*blocks you're path*

I've already predicted Sony will buy Capcom come 2018.

hmm so i guess one of sony's biggest money makers isnt really a thing it's a lie they dont have a successful insurance business they dont own aniplex sony is not taking over funimation forget console sales sony only makes money off of software

None of their old IPs would come back no matter who bought them. It's an industry problem, not a specific company problem.

Sony doomed! I love this meme. Sony isn't anymore closer to bankruptcy, than Capcom going belly up because Sup Forumstards said so.

*flops outside of japan*

Sega or Nintendo

*sells less than before in Japan because it's not on handheld*

You're stupid. People have been saying that for like 6 years

They could if game budgets weren't fucking ridiculous and they had small teams.

>heh nothing personal kid

Are you telling me Mario Maker being a huge success is just natural. Whereas Mega Man being a thing in any capacity is simply not possible due to "industry problems"?

>Say outside of japan
>Posts picture of japanese sales

Mario sells way more than Mega Man. Always has. If the same company owned both, why would they bother putting money into both? Just put the money they would have put into Mega Man into more Mario.

>dmc into a platformer
the games already have platform sections...
>MonHun into a platformer
why?, I guess they rather want to keep the classic gameplay
>Megaman into a go-kart game
like other anons said, that already exist (and even I heard that for the first time)

they at least deserve to be doomed for that movie

I'd argue Mega Man would be really profitable under Nintendo. They could make amiibo of him, he would become part of Smash.

Fromsoft

Steam

>Mario sells way more than Mega Man.
Because it's the stronger brand.

everyone itt now has cancer

you brought this on yourselves

>Sony isn't anymore closer to bankruptcy

What about :
Rough Night
Flatliners
The Dark Tower
Life
Smurfs: The Lost Village
Underworld: Blood Wars
Resident Evil:The Final Chapter
The Magnificent Seven
The Brothers Grimsby
The 5th Wave
Ghostbusters
Passengers
Aloha
Chappie
Pixels
The Wedding Ringer
Inferno
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2

Everyone knows the Playstation Brand is keeping the company on life support.

Namco Bandai, I think they'd treat most of the franchises pretty well.

t. ACfag

Sony Pictures has always been ass.

Anyway, they also make electronics. A lot of electronics.

>A lot of electronics.
None of them sell outside of 4k TVs. Samsung is competing pretty hard on that front as well.

Unironically Nintendo

Capcom's games would find a nice home on Nintendo consoles and Capcom has a long history of supporting Nintendo, so there is a sizable fanbase of Capcom fans who are also Nintendo fans, like, say Mega Man fans. Speaking of, Nintendo buying out Capcom could mean a revival of the Mega Man IP, as well as something like Ghosts 'n' Goblins.

It'd be kinda weird since Resident Evil and Devil May Cry are traditionally associated with Sony but those are still big name IPs anyway, not to mention RE does have a bit of a history on Nintendo consoles. Lots of people played RE4, REmake, RE Zero, on the Gamecube and Revelations 1 on the 3DS.

I'd imagine Nintendo's relationship with Tecmo-Koei regarding Fatal Frame might get a little murky, because then they'd have an exclusive survival horror IP with a lot stronger brand name recognition in Resident Evil, so I'm not sure if Fatal Frame would be Nintendo-exclusive after that.

With Capcom, Nintendo would also have a nice footing into the traditional 2D fighting game genre with Street Fighter, plus that means we could get something like Tatsunoko vs. Capcom 2 or even just straight up Nintendo vs. Capcom. They might even force Capcom to make Darkstalkers 4 or something.

With DMC, we might finally get that Devil May Cry x Bayonetta crossover game that Kamiya probably wants to make, plus maybe Viewtiful Joe 3 or Okami 2 or something.

I'm not sure what would ever happen to the rest of their IPs barring Monster Hunter, though. Dragon's Dogma could have a future since it'd be 'their' Western RPG franchise then, but a lot of their classic IPs, like Onimusha or Dino Crisis would probably stay dead.

Nigga, Nintendo published Bayonetta 2 and W101, the fuck makes you think they'd just turn all their IPs into platformers?

While the shitstorm would be great, neither Sony or Nintendo would buy Capcom. Capcom is a multi-platform publisher; as such, a fair portion of the company's value comes from their multiplatform experience and technology. Sony and Nintendo have no use for that, so Capcom is inherently less valuable to them than they would be to some outside company. Same situation as with Atlus.

Plus there's the risk of talent flight. Not much reason for them to buy Capcom outright when they could just pay for exclusives.

With that said, getting bought might be a good thing for Capcom at this point. They're clearly short on cash, and it's seriously harming their output. All of their AAA games this gen (DR4, SFV, RE7, MvCI) were either partially funded by someone else, or had drastically reduced budgets that hurt their appeal. It's a vicious cycle of
>no money > can't invest in making an impressive game > game underperforms > no money
They need somebody to finance them and break them out of the cycle, but I'm not sure who would be interested.

Activision

Foreign companies can't buy Japanese ones. I'm not sure if Jap companies are allowed to agree to mergers or something though.