{"id":6035,"date":"2010-05-17T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"don-t-expect-anything-new-from-capcom-at-least-not-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/6035-don-t-expect-anything-new-from-capcom-at-least-not-in-english","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t expect anything new from Capcom (at least not in English)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese mega publisher and developer Capcom has announced that it plans to stop investing in new games developed in the West.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a group, the new titles where development was led from abroad didn&#8217;t do so well,&#8221; citing prime examples Dark Void and Bionic Commando, which were both pretty forgettable.<\/p>\n<p>After aiming for 2 million sales on Dark Void, the publisher was disappointed with the feeble 520,000 units sold. Apparently no one told them that if you want to shift 2 million units, you can&rsquo;t release utter trash.<\/p>\n<p>Capcom is not done with Western audiences though, and will still use US\/European studios to develop sequels, and remakes of currently established franchise titles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?5859-Capcom-won-t-be-funding-games-developed-in-the-west-anymore&amp;p=222287#post222287\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Capcom<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese publisher pulls out of western game development<\/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-6035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035","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=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}