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Capcom FY3/20 Software Shipments, Physical units down 51.5% YoY: PS4 66%, NSW 23% XB1 6% of shipments
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I'm buying their games because i love 'em. Despite their somewhat disappointing Switch support when it comes to newer games they remain one of my favorite devs. They port a lot of old games to the system and most of them seem to be quality ports of great games. Damn they even could stop completely supporting the system and it wouldn't change my mind. But that won't be happening with the kind of sales they get on the system.
They have in previous fiscal years, with the exception of MHW (which is supposedly a PS4 console exclusive in Asian markets). Even MvCI got an XB1 SKU in Japan.
As always for Capcom to redeem themselves in my eyes is to update and port wii monster hunter to switch
Porting a PS4 game to Xbox is a no brained vs trying to get stuff like dmcv or MHW onto switch. Essentially what they would need to do is build switch exclusive games vs port PS4/pc games to Xbox.
Yo, I heard this weird rumour that you can build games for Switch and port them to PS4/PC/XBO. Don't know how true it is.
In licensing hell, I guess.
I know the French guy is an actor in 3, but does 2 have an actor's likeness, too? I'll take just 2 and 4
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I can see that. But after playing Monster Hunter World i'm finally done with the series. I just can't do the grind anymore. It was a nice journey beginning with Freedom Unite on the PSP and MH3U and MH4U on the 3DS. I still hope they will do a game on the Switch for the fans.
Ah, I see. I didn't know. Well, that is disappointing. Guess that explains why the series just kind of died.
I would say the reason the rest of Onimusha entries have not been released yet is because the first one sold very bad, barely 300.000 units between 4 platforms. I can understand why it did not sell because the first Onimusha game feels very dated.
I don't think MvCI got a physical release in Japan.
The last two games I can think of are DMC5 and RE7 (plus Revelations 2, DR3 and 4).
These numbers are very interesting and especially when the Swich in particular is 3 years old, more even, and I'm like 99.9% sure that Capcpom have not even managed to ship one physical game per year on that platform for the UK/Europe, considering that Mega Man 11 was not and that the RE4/5/6 collection was not either and they're like the 2 most interesting things Capcpom have made for it since MHGU, which amazingly was not digital only.
I think a few collections and DMC1? Not sure that the 23% only contains the new releases, most likely contains all Capcom/Switch sales.
Well, I can't imagine they expected a remaster of Onimusha to sell a million. It was always going to be very niche.
Your on a forum that overwhelmingly hates the idea of cross gen games yet your asking for ports of switch games for next gen
Porting games to other platforms can actually cost a lot of money for some developers. However, one thing Capcom has done is really bolster their compliance and multiplatform tools it seems, so they have less trouble than other people to support multiple platforms. I think what honestly helps them is their staggered approach - PS4 and Xbox first then PC then a Switch port for some stuff.
That spaced out timing allows it to look effortless when they are managing to get all those ports done just through good project management.
Why would they build games for switch as the base though and not PS4 which then also allows them to cheaply port to X1 and PC?
Oh, yeah, it contains all releases in total, indeed :) I was just thinking that the number of the releases in Q3 could affect things in a bigger way.
Well, it's cheaper to do an up port than an downport. So by doing this, you release on all systems by targeting the least common denominator.
Of course, "BUT IT WOuLD HOlD BAcK OUR GaMez", obviously...
I'm just pointing out it's a false dichotomy, but I will say I don't care what this forum thinks.
Do you think it's expensive to port a Switch game to PS4/XBO/PC?
I remember XB1 getting one, it was actually a talking point from someone else on Era besides me.
When your minimum efforts are rewarded that is not an incentive to improve. If anything these figures reinforces Capcom's strategy regarding Nintendo Switch. Although judging by the amount of new sku's they are planning for this fiscal year (13 in total) they don't seem to have anything else planned for Nintendo Switch.
Porting a game to any other console, or hell, even releasing a PC version can be very expensive. On PC you have to do rounds of compatibility testing and on other consoles you have to go through compliance checks, nevermind all of the bugs that can pop up due to the new platform.
A cost/benefit analysis is always run before deciding to bring a game to a platform and sometimes the risk just isn't worth it. Not to mention certain consoles did or do not support certain game design decisions.
But wouldn't you advocate for starting the games on phones then and really target everyone. Also the Switch came out 3 years after the PS4 why would they totally abandon their developmental pipeline that has been highly successful for them to start making games with Switch as a base. Now if going forward they start with Switch as a base and port to PS5/X1 I can see the argument for that since Switch would be the most established platform of the three. But I can also see that they would want to compete with other AAA 3rd parties and just move over to having PS5 being their new base development platform.
Right but porting from Switch to (PS4)/XBO/PC is not going to be a notably expensive endeavour in comparison to porting from PS4 to XBO/PC. All those compliancy checks will happen regardless. PS4/XBO are not identical hardware after all.
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