So Capcom is Now Under The Risk of Being Bought Out...

[Ieyke]

if nintendo buy them...

Ninty is in no position to consider buying out anything at the moment, much less Capcom.

Yes it is. Nintendo has a fuckton of money banked that they're really basically doing nothing with.

They could lose something like $300 million a year for 35 years straight without going bankrupt.

Not really, a large part of why their stock has remained somewhat trustworthy is because of the money they have banked. Basically they retain investor confidence by keeping a large amount of money on hand to insure against any hard times that might crop up in the future. Since Nintendo really hasn't diversified at all, they need something around to show that they won't go belly up at the first failure.

So having all that money is really good for the company, but it also means that they can't really use or lose too much of it without endangering investor confidence. Basically the idea is that when the company is on an upswing, dip into the piggy bank a little bit, when the company is in a downswing, hands off.

Right now Nintendo is in a little bit of a trough. It might be over, with the uptick in sales of the WiiU the stock price has finally recovered to where it was just after the end of year disappointments - but they haven't recovered to pre-disappointment levels yet, so it is likely too early to start spending money.

They might risk it anyway.

Just think of what them buying out Capcom and then saying, "Mega Man 11, Mega Man X9 Dark Stalkers 4 and Breath of Fire 6 comming soon to the WiiU", would do for console sales, and it's not like Nintendo is a company afraid of taking huge risks.

Marvel VS Capcom VS Super Smash Bros

If I could play as all the Marvel and Capcom characters in Smash....holy shit.

 

[Blitsie]

How awesome would it be if Nintendo bought it and gave Platinum the chance to make a proper Devil May Cry sequel AND a new Okami or even God Hand?

I may just sell my PS4 and get a Wii U instead if that ever happens!

 

[Sanunes]

Sony's console (and insurance) division are doing well, but I think acquiring Capcom would be too big a risk for the entire company right now for if it goes bad it might be something Sony couldn't recover from.

I think it would be either a group of investors buy the company and if they don't see a profit soon enough they sell off the pieces like what happened with BioWare or a company that might not be in the console or game business buys Capcom and uses that as an entry point into the market.

 

[bluegate]

If it is bought by anyone, I just hope it's not Sony. I would hate to buy a VITA just to play Ace Attorney games.

It would be a huge deal if Sony could land Megaman Legends 3 on the Vita.

Huge deal to you and the couple of Megaman Legends fans around the world, including me, but not a big deal for Sony. I don't think that the game would sell that well or move that many handhelds. Heck, I would have bought a 3DS for MML3... 8 years from now.

And why stick with handhelds for a game like Megaman Legends... those games are more of a console kind of game if you ask me. I wouldn't say no to a MML3 on PS4 and a new MMX game on PS4.

Thinking back, I never understood capcom's descision to go with the 3DS for Megaman Legends 3... the first megaman legends' controls sucked because it was partially designed for the single analog stick of the N64 controller. The sequel, which was a PS1 exclusive if memory serves, was way better because it effectively made use of the dual analog sticks on the PS1 controller. That is why I am kind of happy that it never saw the light of day on the 3ds, because for proper controls, the game would need dual analog sticks.