Capcom "aggressively" seeking overseas partnerships

Matthew Handrahan

Japanese publisher Capcom has released a note to investors highlighting acquisitions and mergers with Western companies as an immediate priority.


The note outlines the need for Capcom to increase sales of its game business outside of Japan to ensure future growth.

"Acquisitions and partnerships are one of the important strategies for increasing our market share overseas," the note reads.


"We aggressively seek the opportunities of acquisitions and partnerships for the purposes of creating game content with universal market appeal and acquiring technologies and know-how required for our 'Single Content Multiple Usage' strategy."


The note discourages any takeover bids on the grounds that they lead to employee departures, which compromises the value of the acquired company. As such, Capcom favours partnerships, which could lead to acquisitions in the long term.


However, similar deals with Japanese companies are explicitly discouraged.

"A merger with a large Japanese game or toy manufacturer is not being considered as a serious option since it would not make a significant contribution to growth in our overseas sales. Furthermore, this type of merger also poses the risk of limiting our activities involving the licensing of game content."


Capcom's focus on appealing to Western gaming markets has been a defining feature of its strategy over the last few years.

And that is why they fail. Where is the Capcom we all loved? Where is the Capcom of last gen that was redefining genres left and right? Its sad to see.

The Third Eagle of the Apolypse and the Co-Prophet of the End Times

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What do Steel and the Denver International Airport have in common? Watch on! FUCKIN' HILARIOUS!

I <3 Anderson Cooper.

Elegant, NYC-based, former model and not-so-secret homosexual man.

He's so witty and has a thing for stories about phalluses.

He reminds me of someone.

Edit: Saw the Giggly Video! I wish I could embed the videos here, but they are all protected on YouTube!

Well, it's rather well known, but he's just not able to come out and say it. Something about being a Vanderbilt and famous and in the public eye... No idea what that's like! Must be hell for him.  

LOL, something about him saying "SAUCEY!!!"  in the third video craps me up.

The third video is by far the best. The street names!

"I had no idea penguins have that big a package... I mean how do they even waddle?"

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28 hours into Xenoblade

*hugs SDTV*

Makna forest looks great. Shame about the pop up, otherwise it might be my favourite area in the game. Like Iga said it's like a real jungle, so much foliage and space. It feels like a cross between walking through the forest in Princess Mononoke, the forest in LOTR and the forest in the Avatar movie.

Such beautiful music, which is on the free soundtrack BTW.

Then, I went into Nopon village.

OMG, the music is like the Studio Ghibli film Pom Poko, the inside is just magical and huge. Absolutely love it.

I have a couple of questions about levelling up. You know you can only have 3 active party members for battles? When you level up, do the active members get levelled up but the non-active ones, do they get points or not? I have been using Reyn, Shulk and Sharla because I assumed that I had used them the most and invested a lot into levelling them up. Then recentely I checked my party page and the other two characters are the same level, 33.

If this is the case and the whole party levels evenly that would be so cool and would free me up to experiment more with changing party members up. So let me know what you guys think.

I saw that Playstation tablet story yesterday, it's like the Xperia phone, only plays digital version PS1 games you have to pay for. Why even bother calling them Playstation tablets? Old ass games on an expensive tablet. Seems pointless to me.

Nintendo Power - review scores



Star Fox 64 3D (3DS) – 8.0


Madden NFL 12 (Wii) – 7.0
Driver Renegade (3DS) – 3.0


Frogger 3D (3DS) – 6.5


Deca Sports Extreme (3DS) – 5.0


Camping Mama: Outdoor Adventures (DS) – E
Driver San Francisco (Wii) – 4.5


Kirby Mass Attack (DS) – 8.0


Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (3DS) – 9.0


Solatorobo: Red the Hunter (DS) – 9.0


Bit.Trip Saga (3DS) – 8.0


Bit.Trip Complete (Wii) – 9.0


Gabrielle’s Ghostly Groove 3D (3DS) – 5.5


Face Racers: Photo Finish (3DS) – 4.0

Maaaaaaan Ubisoft suck balls on Nintendo.

Hey, the 3DS show gets a 3D Nintendo week show