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NEWS: Capcom Sues Koei Tecmo for 980 Million Yen on Patent Infringement

Your problem you keep assuming is that Capcom is holding those games to AAA standards and that's why they're disappointed with sales. They're not. They're holding those games to their own standards, and they've effectively failed to meet even those. I hate AAA gaming too, but let's not use it as some boogeyman scapegoat for all the problems in the world.

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Mighty No 9 was backed by 67,226 people. Mega Man, even at it's absolute lowest, sold more than 67,226 copies. Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge sold more than that.

You people need to stop using Mighty No 9 as some kind of proof Capcom is dumb for axing Mega Man. It actually proves Capcom right when they can't even muster 67,226 people to care about their property. Mega Man in it's prime, the Battle Network games, could sell over 1 million copies. They weren't holding the franchise to Gears of Duty: Bro Warfare standards, they were holding it to it's own standards it set with previous installments of the franchise. 67,226, when the standard used to be over a million, is a sign of a decline that anyone can see. It's only a niche audience who cares about Mega Man still.

Your problem you keep assuming is that Capcom is holding those games to AAA standards and that's why they're disappointed with sales. They're not. They're holding those games to their own standards, and they've effectively failed to meet even those. I hate AAA gaming too, but let's not use it as some boogeyman scapegoat for all the problems in the world.

This right here, folks. Sure, getting Legends killed off the way it was was a slap to the face... but we had over 21 Mega Man games between 2000 and 2010, and all people did was complain that there were "too many".

Mega Man Zero, Mega Man ZX, and Mega Man XTreme were all perfectly serviceable-to-great games that nobody even looked at for X or Y reason. I won't blame people for not having slavish devotion to a franchise, because that's stupid. But it's not Capcom's fault that Mega Man Zero/ZX sold poorly, or that people prefer their childhood memories of what games were like.

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...What the hell does that even mean? Did Capcom manage to patent the concept of sequels? What the actual hell.

So Capcom is doing the same as SNK, suing another company in the hope they buy them instead of dealing with a long court fight that might delay further installments of their hit series.

capcom sure gives that impression, with their complains about sfxtekken and resident evil 6 sales both fo which sold millions.

...What the hell does that even mean? Did Capcom manage to patent the concept of sequels? What the actual hell.

Also Dragon Quarter, which BOF, did fairly well in Japan (almost a 150K in its first year which for a jprg not named FF or Dragon Quest is not bad)

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So Capcom is doing the same as SNK, suing another company in the hope they buy them instead of dealing with a long court fight that might delay further installments of their hit series.

The issues are completely different. I doubt many people would claim SNK doesn't deserve copyright over their own original characters and Squaresoft was explicitly using their characters. Not lookalikes of some vague similarity. The exact same characters.

In this case, Capcom was bizarrely awarded patents over basic game elements. Capcom is now trying to use those patents to attack other companies in hopes of they settle instead of gambling to overturning the patent.

mangamuscle wrote:

So Capcom is doing the same as SNK, suing another company in the hope they buy them instead of dealing with a long court fight that might delay further installments of their hit series.

The issues are completely different. I doubt many people would claim SNK doesn't deserve copyright over their own original characters and Squaresoft was explicitly using their characters. Not lookalikes of some vague similarity. The exact same characters.

In this case, Capcom was bizarrely awarded patents over basic game elements. Capcom is now trying to use those patents to attack other companies in hopes of they settle instead of gambling to overturning the patent.

The last few games only sold a few hundred thousands world-wide. The franchise is dead, let it go already.

What the???

Capcom is sueing Tecmo Koei for patent infringement, so is Tecmo Koei going to countersue claiming Sengoku Basara copied of Samurai Warriors??

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...What the hell does that even mean? Did Capcom manage to patent the concept of sequels? What the actual hell.