Wii Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 (edited) Capcom Europe To Cut More Than 50% Of Its Staff It has emerged that Capcom Europe is planning to cut half of its staff in a major restructure following a difficult year. The western branch of the acclaimed studio has suffered from a number of high-profile titles not performing to the company’s expectations. More than half of the European arm faces redundancy, with a number of jobs set to merge. “Following a restructure at its US operation, Capcom’s European organisation is currently evaluating its structure to ensure it is in the best position to take advantage of the changing market conditions the industry is facing.” http://mynintendonews.com/2013/10/03/capcom-europe-to-cut-more-than-50-of-its-staff/ Shame in a way, I really like Monster Hunter but Capcom have treated Nintendo console owners badly for a long time. They're in a real bad way last I heard they'd less than $150 milliion in the bank. Nintendo should buy them out as they've got brilliant franchises and that way we could get for example a Street Fighter on a home console for the first time since the SNES. Edited October 3, 2013 by Wii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ike Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Not really related to the Wii U so I moved it to its own thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dcubed Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Goddamn that's brutal No doubt that'll impact on localisations too Capcom's really in a bad place right now, having to rely on platform holders to offer them development support & funding to get almost all of their upcoming games out (but that's a matter for the general gaming forums really...) Edit: Go figure, Ike thought so too :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wii Posted October 3, 2013 Author Share Posted October 3, 2013 Not really related to the Wii U so I moved it to its own thread. Thanks. Yeah, wasn't sure if I should create a thread for this topic. Regarding their $150 million, it sounds like a lot but when you consider that GTA5 cost more to make it puts it in perspective. Monster Hunter 4 sales should help alleviate the problems a little but they're a few major titles bombing away from extinction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f00had Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 It's cause of what they did with DmC and RE6 and Street Fighter x Tekken, although I enjoyed the games most people hated it for god knows whatever reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 All part of the whole AAA big budget title mentality methinks, the sales revenue just do not touch some of the these production costs. I do, however, second the opinion of Nintendo snatching them up if the oppurtunity presents. Of course, I'm biased in that thought given I'm playing through Oracle of Ages at the moment :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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