WC: Imagine gaming history without Capcom; it’s a world I would not want to live in. I loved Street Fighter 2, Power Stone, Resident Evil, and pretty much every Disney game they made. Whether they were innovating and creating new IP’s or perfecting old ones with sequels, they changed gaming in so many positive ways, so for me this was actually a hard list to make, not because I had nothing to say, but because I used to think they were such a great company. But the reality is, things have changed.
Capcom is not an “evil” company, they just make some very non-consumer friendly choices for their games. I have nothing personal against the company, but I also believe we shouldn’t ignore their decisions to occasionally do some rather despicable things.
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Jason Dietz: "We reveal the past year's best and worst video game publishers (based on their 2025 releases) in the 16th edition of our annual Game Publisher Rankings."
I was just going to say this, their biggest and top rated game here is TLOU2 for PC….it’s embarrassing.
Even Ubisoft and EA are ahead
Kind of surprised Nintendo is pretty low aswell, their biggest game is also a rerelease with the Switch 2 version of TotK.
That’s what happens when you start shutting down your own studios and forget what actually made you matter in the industry in the first place. Sony used to set the standard — now it feels like they’ve lost that identity. And if they decide to walk away from the PC market too, that’s going to be another huge mistake — that platform is only growing, and ignoring it now would just put them even further behind.
@christopher:” Take note, Sony, you're falling behind by a lot.”
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Why single out Sony? Microsoft didn’t do any better than the year before 5th same as Sony 9th and they have acquired activision and other mayor titles that have boosted their score massively from a 9th and Sony a 4th the year before the acquisitions.
Sony does need to do better without a doubt and I do hope they do take note but not the note of buying publishers is the way to succeed.
1. Microsoft didn't get worse.
2. Sony got way worse.
3. Because Sony needs the criticism the most considering their publishing output this generation has been propped up by last gen ports and third-party developers for the most part.
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I don't wanna speak for Christopher, but like most of us we recognize that Sony's output this Gen has been way below their own standards.
Also Sony did buy a fair amount of Devs, I know you will say they were not publishers, and don't compare in size, but they had their fair share of Aquisitions, including the very well established Bungie.
The overall point is with their stellar first party track record of the past, they should not be going down, they are singled out because they are some of the best videogame devs/publisher on the planet...no matter what reasons we attribute to the situation, they are moving in the wrong direction... period.
Its widely accept that Sony this generation has been underwhelming. We've had more peripheral releases, controller variants, PS5 accessories than games it feels like. The exclusives were also PS4 and what little output they have put exclusively on PS5 is nowhere near as memorable as what came in every generation before that.
This isn't a Sony hate post but anyone who's older and has been around for a long time gaming will agree that PS5 is by far Sony's worst generation. As much as Xbox is in the gutter, I pray the do bounce back in the hope we get Sony to wake up again.
If you want to critique MS... you are doing so towards their management. The games output and their hardware have been much better than PS this gen. Sadly... people still hold a grudge against XB because of MS. Thankfully i am not that petty... I've been enjoying their games output in the drought of PS. And add in some NS1/2 games as well to balance things out. Things will change for me once Wolverine hits, and I start using my 5 more. That one I'm looking forward to. And the Marvel fighter... I'm not a GTA player so that has no bearing on my view of things.
Big part of that has been the live service push resulting in cancellation or flop after flop but when they put out the games their fans want we get amazing stuff like astro bot
Leadership really screwed the pooch trend chasing
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Well I apologize I was wrong about not doing worse but my statement of Microsoft getting a boost still stand 🤷🏿
Well OBSCURED unlike you I’m honorable enough to recognize when I’m wrong and apologize.
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@ The software you know there’s no comparison between what Microsoft acquired and what Sony acquired that’s why you tried to get ahead of the conversation, yes we all know Sony can do better than what they have done this gen but they inhaled the poison GAS they thought would bring money for years but we make sure they got the message and quite a few games got cancelled you know as well a hit like that take years to be corrected and by now they hopefully will have taken steps away from the GAS and slowed their approach to them.
You will say anything when you are in denial that your hardware is dead and nobody wants your platform. Good luck with Helix because nobody will buy it.
But... but... the garbage-mongers always tell us that Square Enix is in trouble! 😂
Square doesn't help that it fear mongers itself with ridiculous 'goals' that they can't reach and then they proclaim failure if they don't reach it. They're quite freaking profitable and people act like they're dying.
Keep in mind that these "proclamations" are usually third-hand bad translations from somedude who was at the investor conference, posted on Twitter, and picked up by press and youtubers like they were gold, and then when the official translation comes out, they're much softer statements, but at that point, the damage is done.
to be very fair
being number one on these things does not indicate how "well" their games do selling wise.
Capcom has clarified its current stance on generative AI in its videogames. The major Japanese publisher and developer behind popular series like Resident Evil, Street Fighter, and Monster Hunter has revealed that while it doesn't use gen-AI assets in their games, it is exploring ways to use generative AI to streamline the game development process.
Using Artificial Intelligence (more like Realistic Stupidity) art assets in your games is a great way to get people to boycott your product. We don't need that ugly, unsophisticated, generic, fake art in our games, good on CAPCOM for not using that garbage.
Naw you can't fool us, You work with Nvidia, that's a fact! And here you wanted to advertise but now look stupid!
I still can't believe to this day that they blamed MML3 getting canceled because of the fans.....
1) Abandoning Monster Hunter's entire established fanbase for Wii's install base. EVen after announcing a PS3 Monster Hunter at E3 06. Then in 07 you cancel it because "PS3 is too expensive to develop for".......Really?....... you say this while at the same time putting development $ into obvious crap like Dark Void and a PS3 port of Lost Planet which no PS3 fan wanted in the first place? You would have looked like less decietfull scumbags of you just fessed up that it was all about install base being more important than fanbase.
2) Asking Marvel vs Capcom fans what characters they wanted in the expanded version of MvC3 with a voting poll when it was clear how disappointing the original roster was for fans.........then proceeding to NOT add a single one of the most wanted characters from that poll aside from Ghost Rider who they planned on adding anyway. WTF was that all about Capcom?......Why even ask then?
3) The rediculous amount of money they charge just for DLC costumes. If you bought every costume as they released, you basically triple the cost of the game (actually more since it was a $40 game).
4) Pulling multi-player from RE5 just to charge for it as DLC.
That's about all I got, I didn't read the article but I'm sure 3 of those are on this site's list. But I'll bet Monster Hunter's not.....because I'm unfortunately one of 26 people outside of Japan who actually cared about Monster Hunter.
EDIT- After reading the article, I do disagree with the author about 2 things. Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3- WHile I HATED the character that they ended up adding to Ultimate, I actually think releasing a new version of the game was the best thing Capcom could have done. I know it LOOKED bad releasing a new version in less than a year, but it was only $40 on release and had alot of actual ground-up type engine updates in addition to the new characters. Based on Capcom's DLC pricing structure, I really doubt they could have added 10 characters to the roster as DLC and it cost less than $40. A new version was the best idea for gamers imo.
And I also liked that Capcom went with Original Mega Man 1 Box Art Mega Man. I thought it was a really cool homage for the 30+ gamer crowd to see whatever character that was on that box-art to come to life. It was one of the few original and interesting ideas they've come up with this gen as far as I'm concerned.
Why do you I still have to pay for Jill and Shuma ? I got the Ultimate edition they should be free, such bullshit.