Capcom Delays Titles

Wanted SSFIV and Lost Planet 2? Tough baubles.
Published 23/12/2009 at 17:36 by Tuffcub
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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.

Comments

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  1. Wow that sucks really bad.


  2. The demo for Lost Planet 2 is great


  3. Argh damn I was looking forward to Lost Planet 2


    • me too :(


  4. 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…


  5. But I want Super Street Fighter IV now…


  6. the year 2009 was brought to you by word delay and the number 10 and was a production of the childrens television workshop. :)


    • That made me chuckle :)


  7. 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.


  8. thats bad news for me.


  9. 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.


  10. Just makes financial sense for their bean counters – they oviously don’t want any of the figures appearing in 09/10 financials


  11. 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!


  12. 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.


  13. So this means they have more time to make the games extra good, right?


    • Riiiiiiiiiiight and also make free DLC for after the game is out. That’s how it works :>


      • See? It’s so nice that these giant, faceless corporations take pride in their work and aren’t just driven by capitalist greed ;)


  14. That excuse is getting a little tiresome, It’s a good job I’m not particularly interested in any of these titles.