electroplankton
Banned
Yes. But it failed to meet expectations and I'm quite sure it sold a lot through bargain bins.
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Capcom FY14 Plan: Heavily promote Lost Planet 3/MH4, expects next-gen costs to soar
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Yes. But it failed to meet expectations and I'm quite sure it sold a lot through bargain bins.
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
And the excuse why they won't release it in the west is the most hilarious reason I've ever read.
metalslimer
Member
What is Capcom doing wrong that everyone else isn't?
SniperHunter
Banned
they are developing a new engine from scratch
That will probably eat up a lot of R&D monies
Muchi Muchi Pink
Member
Right, others will just use UE4 or CryEngine 3 etc.
MTframework was great, they should try to sell the engine instead of just using it in-house.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Any money spent on Lost Planet 3 might as well be tossed in to a fire.
Costs do not need to soar. Not everyone game needs to push visual boundaries at 30fps and 720p. Up the resolution, output at 60fps, increase the image quality...you can use that power to make life easier and decrease your development costs in many cases. You don't need fancy graphics to sell a game.
BRocknRolla
Member
I keep forgetting Lost Planet 3 is a game that is still coming out.
Good luck with all this Capcom. Sounds like they're prepping everyone for future poor profits.
Good luck with all this Capcom. Sounds like they're prepping everyone for future poor profits.
electroplankton
Banned
Hard to say when many of your games were always seen as graphics showcase, e.g. Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Street Fighter.
1st Course
Member
They just updated their site with their financial results, they also updated their games sales database.
http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/
DmC = 1.1m units sold/shipped.
http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/
DmC = 1.1m units sold/shipped.
ItWasMeantToBe19
Banned
That isn't going to happen (for retail anyway) outside of really niche games from small, Japanese publishers.
dragonelite
Member
Uuh what has a game engine performance to do with production tools chain run on developers pc?
You know the studio that dont expect a big raise of development cost are the studio that have been streamlining their production tools chain this gen. Just look at the video posted in the Killzone Shadowfall Raytracing thread. How dynamic lighting made production that much easier and faster.
It took them what 45 min to learn the tools and specify shaders for assets im not sure but the new production tools where multiple orders faster to work with cutting development time big time.
Or did i misread your complain?
dragonflys545
Member
LULZ! LP3!
If Lost Planet 3 plays remotely closely to how it was at PAXEast, that game is going to fail.
I don't often say this, but they should be trying to sweep that under the rug. This isn't a DMC issue where people's connection to past characters were keeping them from seeing hte great game beneith, Lost Planet 3 is genuinely terrible.
I don't often say this, but they should be trying to sweep that under the rug. This isn't a DMC issue where people's connection to past characters were keeping them from seeing hte great game beneith, Lost Planet 3 is genuinely terrible.
dragonbane
Member
Seems like Capcom couldn't remember "Remember Me".
The Last of Us will do fine. Sony probably goes all in at the end of the month and start pushing it like crazy. Otherwise they fucked up big time, even Beyond had more marketing up to this point. And that game is still 5 months away. But I have confidence they will do something big soon.
The Last of Us will do fine. Sony probably goes all in at the end of the month and start pushing it like crazy. Otherwise they fucked up big time, even Beyond had more marketing up to this point. And that game is still 5 months away. But I have confidence they will do something big soon.
That's the industry's problem, and it's going to bankrupt a lot of publishers this generation if they don't alter their approach to game development.
Werewolf Jones
Member
Lost Planet will now share the same fate as Dino Crisis.
JordanLMiller
Member
Mh4 western release confirmed yet?
Cool, they rhyme.
jimmypython
Member
This is exactly what I was going to ask......
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Other developers have said this, not just GAF pulling shit out of their ass.
Depends on who you ask. The people saying they won't soar are people like Ubisoft who are already spending exorbitant amounts on each game with like 800 people on AC. Most devs are expecting rising costs.