Capcom have been casting an eye over their books and have decided to slash their earnings forecast for this fiscal year by moving some titles in to the 2010 fiscal year. Actually not some, it’s all of them, no more Capcom games until at least April 2010, Super Streetfighter IV, Dead Rising 2 and Lost Planet 2 won’t be seeing the light of day until spring has well and truly sprung. According to Capcom the games will be ’spread across all four quarters of the fiscal year,’ so that means at least one of the games will not land until January 2011.
So what’s the reason for the delays? Capcoms corporate website has the answer..
“Capcom believes that delaying the launches of its own titles will avoid competing with these new games.”
Publishers moved the launch of games from Christmas 2009 to the first few months 2010 to avoid the crush but now March 2010 is now ridiculously over crowded so Capcom have moved their games back even further. It’s a sensible, if annoying decision.
gurglesletch | 23/12/2009 17:38
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Wow that sucks really bad.
Dave2 | 23/12/2009 17:42
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The demo for Lost Planet 2 is great
tobo_56 | 23/12/2009 17:43
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Argh damn I was looking forward to Lost Planet 2
carlosfilippsen | 24/12/2009 02:15
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me too
haza103 | 23/12/2009 18:13
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I was looking forward to dead Rising 2 as i heard it was planned as February, therefore i’d get it for my birthday. Nice to see they have some confidence in their own prouducts…
Dafro1989 | 23/12/2009 18:14
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But I want Super Street Fighter IV now…
hazelam | 23/12/2009 18:23
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the year 2009 was brought to you by word delay and the number 10 and was a production of the childrens television workshop.
TSBonyman | 23/12/2009 20:23
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That made me chuckle
Raider197 | 23/12/2009 18:24
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I was looking forward to Lost Planet 2 and Dead Rising 2, although it’s for the best that they changed their release dates as there’s so much coming out at the start of next year.
I would have left Lost Planet 2 and Dead Rising 2 until a later time and bought other games, I’m sure others would have done the same.
skibadee | 23/12/2009 18:45
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thats bad news for me.
legalisemurder | 23/12/2009 18:48
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They could always try making some decent games capable of competing with AAA titles.How about monster hunter for the PS3 or a proper survival horror resident evil instead of a half baked shooter.
cc_star | 23/12/2009 19:35
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Just makes financial sense for their bean counters – they oviously don’t want any of the figures appearing in 09/10 financials
bunimomike | 23/12/2009 21:33
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Interestingly, with the first quarter of 2010 looking eye-wateringly splendid already, does this mean that the often quiet late-Spring, early-Summer months might actually have some decent titles? Top stuff!
Erroneus | 23/12/2009 21:38
Wanted "Trophy Hunter" but was too late.
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Monster Hunter 3 also for the Wii, which is bit strange though, because it’s not THAT busy in the start of 2010. But they are properly trying to avoid titles like Super Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid: Other M, Sin and Punishment 2, Red Steel 2 and No More Heroes 2.
Oki wait, I’ll take that back, Q1 for the Wii is epic.
mugsybalone | 23/12/2009 22:47
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So this means they have more time to make the games extra good, right?
Erroneus | 24/12/2009 10:28
Wanted "Trophy Hunter" but was too late.
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Riiiiiiiiiiight and also make free DLC for after the game is out. That’s how it works :>
mugsybalone | 24/12/2009 11:46
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See? It’s so nice that these giant, faceless corporations take pride in their work and aren’t just driven by capitalist greed
aerobes | 24/12/2009 12:00
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That excuse is getting a little tiresome, It’s a good job I’m not particularly interested in any of these titles.