"Forging bonds, creating an interconnected web and developing fellowships that test boundaries. Sounds like something out of Lord of the Rings, but it’s the real time work of some of the people who work to make Capcom-Unity what it is today.
I had the chance to conduct an e-mail interview with Svensson in order to understand how Capcom USA set out to build a better bridge between it and its fans, while also picking his brain about the outlook on next-gen consoles and Capcom’s increased surge in digital game distribution.
And of course, I couldn’t help but ask a Breath of Fire-related question or two. It’s an obsession, I know."
- Patrick Kulikowski
All 21 Classic Games are playable for a limited time 🎮
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.
1Victor,
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!
Capcom didn't build any bridge between them and their fans. The only time they even remotely listened to anything their fans had to say is whenever it's a minor, Street Fighter related issue. The proof is with Megaman, DmC, and the fact that there hasn't been an Onimusha game in 7 years. Capcom-Unity is just a place where Capcom can ban people for talking smack about their terrible games.
As far as I'm concerned the only boundaries Capcom ever tested with Capcom Unity is the boundaries of it's fan's patience.
All they ever did on Capcom Unity is ask fans what they want for and in games, and proceeded to then go out of their way to purposely NOT do what those fans asked for.
There are so many examples. From the characters added to MvC3 which Ghost Rider was the only demanded character that was put in, and that's because they were already working on him and planned to add him anyway. To completely selling out the PlayStation fanbase who were begging for a PS3 Monster Hunter right when the franchise was starting to get popular outside of Japan, for the Nintendo install base which didn't even want the game, instead of bringing the franchise up to the next level, they let it fester and at this point DEvolve with that rediculous 3DS game. To refusing to give fans the Mega Man games they were damnding on Unity. The list could go on forever.
Oh, Capcom is CERTAINLY listening to it's fans on Capcom Unity, the problem is they only do the exact OPPOSITE of what those fans want.
Well, they did send me an Okami themed incense package as a thank you for giving ideas for Street Fighter 4. Other than that, there's not much they've done on the Unity forums to show the community that they are connected. I stopped going to the boards after they started doing just what they said they wouldn't with SF(milking it for as much as they could.
They said they wouldn't sell characters separately, then they do the Arcade Edition, that is basically selling characters separately. Then they whored out MvC3, and disrespected customers of that franchise by making UMvC3 just like 9 months down the line, and it wasn't an upgradeable purchase, you had to buy it all over again.
Not to mention the insane level of DLC, which many times is disc-locked content, that they go to the excuse "It may be on the disc, but it was produced on a separate budget". There's no way for us to verify that it was truly on a separate budget, and anyways, how about you work strictly on perfecting the game up until release, before splitting up teams to try and milk the game with content that is so early that it'll make it on the original disc. Greedy bastards.
Capcom Unity is nothing more than a terrible attempt at PR. Nothing the fans say ever gets taken into consideration for anything.