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George Kamitani (Vanillaware) Famitsu interview - Dragon's Crown was pitched to Capcom who passed because it wouldn't sell like Monster Hunter
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This seems even more odd since it would have been during the time when very few outside of japan cared about monster hunter, so its not like they were letting those MHW numbers go to their head.
This is the Capcom of early 2010s, who abandoned Megaman fans worldwide for a decent chunk of time and gave up on pushing one of their bigger brands at the time (Sengoku Basara was at its zenith around then) in the west because they fucked up the marketing. So... Sounds about right.
MH used to sell 4M on Japan alone, so it's still a big number
It's still kind of nonsensical. Very few things are going to sell like monster hunter. MH took a long time to blow up as much as it did for them when the game was finally moved to PSP.
That moment when you realize Capcom fucked you over from getting an Amazon costume for Mika, and Sorceress outfit for Faulk/Poison:
Yep.
But based on the time frame, I'd bet Kamitani's recollection of events likely occurred when Inafune was still there. Being the former head of Capcom's R&D at that time, that likely would explain how and why this Wii concept got as far as it did before someone else higher up shot it down.
I know it was always popular in japan, but wouldnt this have also been right after tri? and didnt tri have a fairly big drop in sales compared to the portable games?
Considering that one of Dragon Crown's bosses is a nod to Capcom's own King of Dragons, I can't say that I'm entirely surprised by this.
Ah, so he probably got caught at the start of the bs train then... shame. :c
For some reason I imagined an old school, white, cigar chomping, business man saying "but can it sell like Monster Hunter?"
Lol at that quote.
Still is regarding a certain console lol.
They kinda still is on that front.
They did REmake 2 and DMCV fully aware that those would be successes. You won't see them greenlight new IP/Projects much nowaday either.
I felt a lot of Dungeons and Dragons in the game so it make sense. (I mean the Capcom game obviously).
Don't know why but this post killed me.That moment when you realize Capcom fucked you over from getting an Amazon costume for Mika, and Sorceress outfit for Faulk/Poison:
And that was before MHW became the best selling capcom game ever.
If they still follow that directive, and they probably do, basically bye bye non big established capcom stuff.
If they still follow that directive, and they probably do, basically bye bye non big established capcom stuff.
Keep in mind that this was around 2010 - 2012. Capcom made a lot of dumbass decisions around this time.
It's funny that around this time Ubisoft was putting out stuff like Child of Light and Valiant Hearts. Shame they've killed that off.
Wii U is no longer relevant.
Edit: Nvm, guess this is another "Fuck Capcom" thread lol.
I mean, it WOULDN'T have sold very well if Capcom put it out. Especially not with the character designs looking the way they did.
Seriously. Does anyone actually think this game would've been a good investment for Capcom of all companies?
Game has the budget of a PSN game, launched at $50 and sold more than 1m copies... There's a reason why Atlus wanted the rights for publishing their next game before knowing what's their next game is.
If it was for the Wii, I'm not surprised it was skipped over. I don't recall Muramasa doing all that well on the Wii either.
Hopefully they'll go back to that sort of thing in their post Breakpoint introspection about their typical formula.
I'm confused by this. What do you mean here?
They still are in regards new IP. They're currently just just working on the big games that were or have known to sell big numbers and re-releasing their back catalog. There hasn't been a new IP from Capcom since 2012 with Dragon's Dogma.
And yet, it took Capcom getting their heads out of their asses and putting MH on the HD twins and PC to have the greatest sales ever in their company's history. The thought pattern of old Capcom was baffling at times.