{"id":11716,"date":"2011-05-12T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T09:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"capcom-pc-gaming-s-profile-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11716-capcom-pc-gaming-s-profile-is-growing","title":{"rendered":"Capcom: \u201cPC gaming\u2019s profile is growing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In news that will make PC Master Racists squeal with supremacist delight, Capcom has come out in support of the increasingly marginalised PC market. It&rsquo;s like 1995 all over again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The push for PC gaming within Capcom over the years has been lead by a select few people. I&#8217;m one, putting my money where my mouth is with my forecasts,&#8221; writes Capcom vice-prez Christian Svensson in a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capcom-unity.com\/sven\/blog\/2011\/05\/10\/pc_happenings\" target=\"_blank\">blog post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;PC gaming&#8217;s profile is growing at Capcom,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;Both the US and our European teams continue to request PC SKUs for new titles. We&#8217;ve got more titles coming with PC versions than ever before (e.g. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At green light meetings, our Japanese COO and the head of the consumer and online software business increasingly request a PC version if one is not being proposed at the outset of a project.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So in short,&#8221; he concludes, &#8220;while we&#8217;re still not yet where I&#8217;d like for us to be, the future is getting better for Capcom fans who are PC gamers all over the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After controversially cancelling a PC version of Super Street Fighter IV last year due to claims of piracy, Capcom recently took it all back and announced they&rsquo;d be bringing the Arcade Edition to the platform after all.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13344-PC-gaming-on-the-up-says-Capcom?p=416976#post416976\" target=\"_self\">Are you a PC gaming master racist?<\/a><\/strong><\/span> &lt;&lt; Discuss your favourite platform in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promises that \u201cthe future is getting better for Capcom fans who are PC gamers all over the world\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}