Capcom are naming Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles 'a failed release' after the publisher released its income reports ending 31st March 2010.
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!
Saudi Arabian investment company Electronic Gaming Development Company has acquired just over five percent of Capcom.
Release it with Umbrella Chronicles in HD with PS Move and Trophy support on a single BD disc
thats what you get for working on the wii. if nintendo,mario or even zelda is not in the title it wont sell. why dont you just let western developers handle your titles, since western gamers love it when you do that. Just look at the lovely response from the dmc announcement.
capcom wants money. we want good games. they give us games like dmc4 and res 5 because we always say how we want those old games on our next generation consoles (you know, that nice old formula). It comes out and its toned down: its shorter and much easier than the previous titles. It ends up being a parody on hardcore games.
"wow look sakuja-san, these men like our games".
"yes usuapo-san we are make more money if it are appealing to more people. let us then making game easier and put it on other game consoles's. but what about our audience-san".
"eeh that are good point, let us hope that american and europe man more loyal, yes?"
"yes!!"
They give us new ips. wow that western formula with an eastern twist. phail. CAPCOM SHOULD stop listening to us and do whatever they want. thats why dmc and re were so awesome.
capcom is in such a bad position. thanks to us. anyway i am looking forward to dmc, cause i bet you it will be better than dmc 4.
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they can't be entirely blamed (95 % of it)
people want old capcom. meaning they want the old games that capcom made. But it never ends up they way we want. They believe we will buy those games on the wii. no, but they will persist.
capcom and their suspicious ways of handling dlc wont come to an end. they did abandon us because they thought we would be faithful. nah, we wont.
"yes usuapo-san we are make more money if it are appealing to more people. let us then making game easier and put it on other game consoles's. but what about our audience-san".
"eeh that are good point, let us hope that american and europe man more loyal, yes?"
and by the way capcom like rockstar can eat my sh*t. "certain" gamers always have to ask "where is the love"? capcom responds, "its always been there my angel, but it costs more now" . some people will say that these developers dont owe us anything. if it wasnt for me buying your game, you wouldnt exist.
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Glad it failed. That's what you get for putting price tags on SF4/SSF4 costumes thats already on the disk and also wasting time and money on Bionic Commando and Dark Void instead of making a next gen MegaMan and Onimusha.
serves them right. this is what you get when you dont listen to you fans, the people who buy your games and shit. i hope they go bankrupt for what they did to my beloved dante