Capcom: No More Platform Exclusives

[Demon_Skeith]

Resident Evil and Street Fighter developer Capcom has sworn off the practice of making "next-generation" games exclusive to one home console like the PS3 or Xbox 360.

"All major titles launched during the next fiscal year or thereafter will be developed as multi-platform games," reads Capcom's shareholder report for its fiscal year 2008, which ended on March 31 of this year.

Henceforth, Capcom will develop many of its games using its internal MT Framework technology, "an integrated development environment built to provide common development tools for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC platforms."

As a result, the company "will aim to increase revenue and dramatically increase the number of users by launching, for example, Resident Evil 5 ... Street Fighter IV ... and Bionic Commando [on multiple platforms]."

Capcom's strategy appears to already be in action. Aside from its work on MT Framework platforms, the zombie-smacking Xbox 360 action title Dead Rising is already getting some multi-console love, and several games including Street Fighter IV may be Wii-bound.

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[hcfwesker]

this is pretty major. i know exclusives can be profitable when signing to one publisher, but you run that risk opf losing potential consumers when they don't have that excleusive system.

there's been a huge debate across the net of how RE5 should be ported, any way possible to the Wii, after the success and excellent gameplay RE4 had on the Wii.

here's hoping for SF4 on the wii

 

[Demon_Skeith]

QUOTE (hcfwesker @ September 13, 2008 09:54 am) this is pretty major. i know exclusives can be profitable when signing to one publisher, but you run that risk opf losing potential consumers when they don't have that excleusive system.

there's been a huge debate across the net of how RE5 should be ported, any way possible to the Wii, after the success and excellent gameplay RE4 had on the Wii.

here's hoping for SF4 on the wii

it is a big risk to do this but Capcom is no small company and has the potential to do this without losing much.

 

[hcfwesker]

Capcom's been my favorite 3rd party developer since the NES days. MegaMan, baby!!!!

them SF series on the SNES, and RE since then. I've bought every version of every RE game on every system. i've literally sold my soul to capcom when it comes to gaming. only nintendo beats them as my favorite developer (since they're 1st party)