>At the end of 2014, Nintendo had about $7.8 billion in cash and cash equivalents, using the current exchange rate
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/02/08/nintendo-is-making-money-again-what-investors-need.aspx
>According to GameIndustry, while Capcom has been able to generate a profit, their bank account only has $152,000,000, as many of their games have underperformed, like Resident Evil 6 and DMC: Devil May Cry. To put that into perspective, Nintendo has made roughly the same amount in profits alone.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/capcom-only-has-152-mil-bank-changes-dlc-stance
Should Nintendo buy Capcom?
>>285774897
Yes they should.
Hmm... hard to say. I think Nintendo could definitely improve Capcom so yeah probably. Capcom only has a couple good IPs that haven't been run into the ground. However, Nintendo could revitalize old IPs and make lots of bucks.
>Release new proper Megaman Game
>Only on Wii U
Guaranteed millions.
>>285774897
Nintendo would need first to buy all the wiius they didnt sell to make a real profit before buying capcom.
Would be hilarious with the SF 5, Deep Down situation. Not to mention MH.
No. Then all their actually good games would be stuck on a underpowered platform instead of on PC.
They buy Megaman, but they also buy Sonic from Sega.
Still worth it?
I'm not sure there would be space to a lot of Capcom's franchise as Nintendo exclusives, so if they bought the company and their IPs, it could lead to poor sales for shit like SF, DmC and such.
That said, I think Mega Man would be perfect in Ninty's hands. Smash alone treats Mega Man better than Capcom has treated him in the last 10 years.
Maybe..
>>285775154
I was going to post in this thread just to tell you that you're wrong. But then I realized that Megaman's exposure from smash would be enough to win over the drones.
Only if they have enough money after buying Sega.
>>285776504
>mfw having to sit through Arin Hanson whining about how it doesn't explain things well enough while simultaneously whining about how it's too hand-holdy
>>285774897
>Should Nintendo buy Capcom?
Buying and restructuring a company as big as Capcom (Which is not making that much money also because it keeps building more internal development studios for next gen) would cost much more much time, money and effort to be cost effective. They'd lose money in the following fiscal year guaranteed. Plus a shit load of people would lose their jobs.
It's not happening.
>>285775154
>guaranteed millions
Megaman never really sold that well. He'd need an advertisement campaign
Eh, just let them make another Classic Mega Man game as a successor to Mega Man 10, but in HD while keeping his Smash-esque appearance.
Make the Mega Man amiibo compatible with it, and boom. It writes itself.
>>285776450
>>285776450
The guys that made these games already work at nintendo.
Ironically they made the nds games
Guys I want to buy Tipping Fedoras to show Nintendo cross-buy is a very good thing to keep doing but I don't know if $22 Canadabux is worth it.
Is it? It's digital only so it's not like I'm missing out on a physical version either.
>>285776675
I'm pretty sure Sega still makes a lot of money in japan
>>285776791
I meant millions of dollars sorry, not millions of copies.
>>285776220
>Smash alone treats Mega Man better than Capcom has treated him in the last 10 years.
Oh man, Nintendo could do such cool things with Megaman. I don't really see them handling pretty much any of the other franchises though, but I could be wrong.
>as many of their games have underperformed, like Resident Evil 6
+ 5 million is underperforming only in the eyes of Capcom or Square Enix.
What was the last Nintendo game that had those sales? What was the last CONSOLE Nintendo game that had those sales?
>>285777079
They publish Monster Hunter pretty successfully.
>>285776220
Street Fighter would probably thrive due to only having to develop on one platform at a time, reducing development costs and lowering the sales numbers necessary for profit.
I think the bigger issue would be Nintendo having a fuckhuge group of new employees and studios to restructure. What do you do with the divisions that dealt with optimizing multiplats?
>>285776857
No one wants another 2d megaman game except /v/. I'd be happy if they remake the series with classic playing kind of like Other M.
Crapcom is dead and buried. It needs to just roll over and die already and let the remains get picked over by liquidators.
>>285777164
Integrate in other teams, its mpre likely zhat they will lack workforce instead of having too many. If this would ever happen there would be a huge group of people leaving the company as it always happens, this is also why nintendo never took over a company that didnt want to be taken over.
>>285777089
Nintendo margins are different, they don't even try to sell a lot. It's pathetic.
>Yeah but we made money
Who cares, you made like 1/10th of the sales of an average Sony/Microsoft game.
>>285774897
Now you know why outside investors are mad at Nintendo. They're sitting on piles of actual money and not doing anything about it.
>>285774897
No. Capcom itself is cancer. They need to buy their IPs and the rights to MT frameworks.
The monhun team and their better engineers should be kept though. Senior management absokutely not
>>285777164
>What do you do with the divisions that death with optimizing multiplats
Make them in charge of eShop ports of old titles, upscaling N64, GC, and Wii games.
>>285777594
Monolithsoft could have been dead. Nintendo saved it. They could do it again. Plus they saved Bayo, granted not by buying out platinum.
>>285777164
>According to GameIndustry, while Capcom has been able to generate a profit, their bank account only has $152,000,000, as many of their games have underperformed, like Resident Evil 6 and DMC: Devil May Cry.
>Check source
>TUE 10 SEP 2013
>Capcom looks toward big changes after difficult FY13
>Date of OP's article
>Posted on September 13, 2013
Gee, I wonder why they only have $152million
>Capcom investing around $80m into two new R&D buildings
>Capcom announced it's spending approximately 8 billion yen, which converts to just under $79 million, on two new research and development buildings located near its head office in Osaka. The investment is part of Capcom's ongoing focus to make more of its development internal and centralized with the aim of making higher quality games at lower costs. Work on the smaller eight-floor building began in May 2013, shortly after Capcom announced a $73 million special loss on game cancellations following what the Japanese company called an "excessive" outsourcing of projects overseas.
http://www.joystiq.com/2014/04/14/capcom-investing-around-80m-into-two-new-randd-buildings/
TL;DR - This is a bait thread, but no one is going to bother looking up or verifying OP's bullshit. You all just want a reason to bitch.
>>285777737
Have you considered the possibility that they also spent about 1/10th of what the average Sony/Microsoft game costs to make and advertise?
>>285778202
Again, who cares? They have no sales.
>>285777992
How's that R&D going?
>We've discovered that we can do cross-promotion in MoHun
SUOGOI DESU NE
>>285777089
NSMB, Smash, Mario Kart,Tomodachi
Honestly, Nintendo keeps their money real tightly managed. One of their C-list franchises like Fire Emblem only needs to sell 250,000 to be considered viable on the 3DS.
Of course, with that in mind, I do find it rather funny that Monolith Soft considers Nintendo the most generous publisher in terms of budgeting when it came to making its Xeno- games.
It would almost make me wonder what kind of ridiculous chewing gum-and-a-prayer budget Namco and Square gave them for Xenogears and Xenosaga, except that I've played them and you can tell what they were working with.
>Street Fighter becomes Nintendo exclusive
That's one way to sell systems.
>>285778303
Who cares about the ratio between money spent and money made? I dunno, people in charge of a fucking company, maybe.
What is even your point?
>>285778543
I think that would cause a really bad shitstorm though.
>>285778506
>NSMB, Smash, Mario Kart, Tomodachi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Wii_U_video_games
Wrong on all of the above. Close. But wrong.
They would suffer shorterm due to having to restructure, but they wouldn't have nearly as glaring software droughts ever again. They would also forever secure a very large portion of the Japanese demographic from MonHun being a permanent exclusive.
>>285777737
And guess what only 30-40% of all games Sony ever released managed to break even.
MS probably has a even worse rate.
Hard sales numbers mean jack shit without any context
Why does Nintendo have all that cash guys? I'm confused.
>>285778667
Honestly, as long as some incarnation of it comes out in arcades, which Nintendo has proven amenable to(see F-Zero or Mario Kart), and they get some fight sticks made, life would go on.
![TencentGames1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Vp7ivlo.jpg "TencentGames1[1].jpg")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAhHC2Pc68
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ_8SuIn2y0
>hurr nintendo is going to buy company x
you people never learn
>>285778613
People aren't impressed by small sales and small profits. I wouldn't expect you to understand.
>$7.8 billion in cash
>>285778667
Nah, FGC will follow Street Fighter around like a lost puppy.Also it puts SF and Smash on the same platform for the first time ever. TOs who run both certainly wouldn't be complaining.
>>285779190
>going to
No no. We WANT it to.
It isn't, nobody thinks it is.
>>285778947
>make cheap ass systems
>sell it for profit
>make games
>don't splurge money on bribing journos or advertising
>make plastic toys
>manchildren buys buttloads of it
>>285779293
>we
>>285774897
YES.
NINTENDO COULD HAVE MEGA MAN
>>285774897
Yes, I'd love to see them saddled with additional debt.
>>285779281
>Nah, FGC will follow Street Fighter around like a lost puppy.
This, bigger sheeps than the KH crowd.
>>285779408
WHO'S GONNA GET IT!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZszrtCIDxU
>>285779192
You didn't answer the question, what the fuck is your point?
That "DURR you wouldn't understand" shit is just a cop-out because you don't even know what you're getting at.
If a game like Resident Evil 6 sells 5 million copies and somehow that still means it underperformed, then something went seriously wrong with the budget management.
>SF and MvC on a Nintendo System
That would be pretty funny.
Not happening, tho.
>>285779350
>the people talking about this
Yes, we.
Not we as in /v/, mongo.
ITT: Ignorant fucks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBhU4KV9Ss
>>285774897
Nintendo buys Capcom and gives us Mega Man Legends 3 for Wii U and N3DS
>>285774897
No. At best, Nintendo would only want a few IPs like Monster Hunter and Megaman. Maybe a few others like Lost Planet and Breath of Fire.
>>285774897
Microsoft would just outbid everyonefor Capcom.
>>285779630
WHO FUCKING CARES.
It sold 5 million, it's doing okay. If something sells 5 million copies, it's pretty good.
>>285779879
>Who cares if it costed 200m USD to make, it made 150m usd money
Theoretically if this were to happen, I wonder how much Nintendo would wind up actually paying. Obviously a good deal more than that 152 million figure.
>>285780163
3.50 yen
>>285779879
You are fucking retarded.
I imagine you also think that if a game sells a million copies during Steam sales in which it was 75% off, developers and publishers would still be just as happy because IT SOLD A MILLION COPIES.
Context IS important, it's not fucking hard to understand. There is nothing wrong with selling fewer copies if according to the budget you still end up making a profit.
>>285780148
>assuming numbers thinking you're right
>>285779832
>Microsoft
Can't own Japanese companies. Nintendo can though.
>inb4 Sony would buy them out
kek with all that available funds.
>>285777089
Mario kart Wii sold 33 million you turd
>>285780414
Microsoft actually has an in house developer in Japan. They're the folk who developed Phantom Dust. Zenimax also owns Tango Gameworks, who is Japanese.
All it takes is that they have a sizable Asian or Japanese branch, which Microsoft does.
>>285774897
>Megaman stays in Smash as 1st or 2nd-Party
>Arthur, Nemesis, and Viewtiful Joe could make it in too
>Possible revisits to Megaman Battle Network, Ghosts n' Goblins, and VJ
>Get to hear SFag and PC Mustard Race butthurt when the series moves over to Wii U exclusively
I fucking need this.
>>285780148
>>285780386
Lemme guess, Nintendo is doing great according to you industry analysts?
My side
>>285780396
>Being this retarded
![2ec[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/IfSLDe9.png "2ec[1].png")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc16u34gl5k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnLSaW4y6qo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZclkbzkt3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHCgRR6dJ0A
>>285780610
Do you realize how terrible their Japanese branch does financially relative to other branches?
Even Windows-tan can't save them.
>>285780738
Well they're making money again you sonygger
nintendo is desperate for exclusives and capcom for easy money deals. why aren't nintendo published megaman games on 3DS and wii u happening?
is there any other company in video game history that has as many dead and untapped IPs as capcom?
>>285780738
Yes they are making money and have no debts, that is pretty much the dinition of financially doing great.
>>285780839
>online
Phew for a second I cared.
>>285775154
This is the only bad thing I can see about Capcom being bought by Nintendo. Doesn't mean that it's necessarily the wrong choice, but right now there's only a handful of Wii U games that actually sell by a fuckton, exclusive or not. Only games that would see such high sales would be on the 3DS, as is with 4U, unless people start buying Wii U's left and right.
>>285780738
posting anime image solely letting you know you're a moron
>>285776220
>if they bought the company and their IPs, it could lead to poor sales for shit like SF, DmC and such.
>DmC
That better be your finger being too tired to capitalize the M else I'm about to bust some heads
>>285774897
Yes, Nintendo needs to purchase Capcom so all of their franchises stay on garbage hardware instead of moving to PC.
I don't even know why I come to this shitty ass board, you people are fucking retarded.
>>285774897
>Help create a monopoly by helping one of the big 3 absorb one of the biggest gaming companies
Fuck off nintoddler
>>285781317
>being this anally fractured
Was it Bloodborne Downgrade or the Order reviews? Be honest now.
It will definitely be the end of the Street Fighter scene in North America atleast.
>>285776857
>just let them make another Classic Mega Man game as a successor to Mega Man 10, but in HD while keeping his Smash-esque appearance
I hope somebody has been working on something like this since the 3DS models have already been ripped. At least a recreation of the Yellow Devil fight since he already has assets too.
>Lets buy this company that makes mature IPs for our kiddie system that hasn't even sold past 9 million in three years
my sides. nintendrones are the worst.
>>285781410
SF scene merges with Smash scene
Interesting. That's like a shitnado.
>>285780697
>butthurt
Oh, so that's why toddlers want them to be bought by Nintendo, I figured they may have had an actual reason that would've benefitted their IPs. Guess I shouldn't have such high hopes.
>>285777000
>double trips
>>285780860
I can't imagine that Zenimax Asia does too well, but both Psychobreak and Skyrim did incredibly well in Japan, so who knows.
>>285779192
Sales & profits are not the same.
>>285781717
I'd like to thank Paul Allen.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/microsoft-founder-paul-allens-submarine-finds-sunken-world/story?id=29380704
>>285781408
What? A monoploy of any sort is terrible.
>>285780949
Nintendo themselves
>buys Capcom
>tones down everything not family friendly.
>>285780738
I'm not talking about Nintendo exclusively, you are the one who is bent on making this about some dumb console war bullshit.
I'm more interested in pointing out that sales numbers always need context and that thinking otherwise is fucking retarded.
>>285781880
>monopoly
You don't actually know what that words means though do you? The scenario we're talking about isn't that.
>Suddenly Nintendo owns the rights to Megaman, where they can bring back the great MM series and even make MML3
>Nintendo also owns the rights to all of the Clover Studios games, allowing Okami 2, God Hand 2, and even a new Viewtiful Joe game to be developed by P*
>DMC will finally get the new game it deserves
>Dragon's Dogma 2 may become a reality
If Nintendo bought Capcom, it would be fucking heaven.
Because the Wii U has no games the only game it's owners can enjoy is pretending Nintendo is going to buy another company.
>>285774897
>Buys capcom
>Nemesis / Lyon confirmed new smash characters
>>285781654
>implying SF didn't already get its big limelight time
>not reading the greentext right above the butthurt thing
It's almost like you're cherrypicking for things to keep your opinion on a high horse.
Please stay mad SFdrone.
>>285782082
Nintendo can only buy small game studios even with Wii and DS money. If they cannot buy anyone back then, how can they now?
>>285782131
>SFdrone
But I don't play fighters, and what I said is clearly you people's intentions when you bring this topic up.
>>285781970
When has this ever happened? Negro, did you see some of the costumes in Xenoblade and Fatal Frame?
>>285781528
>>285782102
Sorry you faggots can't afford two things.
>>285782102
>getting this pwned in the ass by nintendo
damn, getting this mad at a company and it's customers is unhealthy
>>285782324
Buying Amiibos should be a criminal offense. That alone makes your kind the worst.
>>285782259
Not to mention Bayonetta, Wonder Pink, and Hyrule Warriors.
Nintendo doesn't give a shit about sexualization in their games.
>>285782397
>pwned
>The Wii U was also sold at a loss when it first launched in 2012, atypical for Nintendo consoles.
Jesus christ.
The tablet controller was one of the biggest blunders in history.
Almost as bad as the PS3
They managed to sell a console with 10 year old tech at a loss.
>>285782259
Toned down and censored when released stateside.
>>285782082
The irony is amazing. I mean I play on PC primarily but Wii U has the only exclusives worth buying at all.
Even look at the total release schedule for the entire year.
Sony blew their load with The Order and Bloodborne and the Order tanked tremendously.
I don't even know what Xbox is doing because they've been suffering so bad market-wise to 20 million PS4s sold.
Unless you're just saying all the consoles in gen 8 don't have many games, which is kind of true but Wii U has a handful at least.
>>285781654
I am not sure why that guy wants others to suffer, but I would assume people want Nintendo to buy them out because Nintendo is desperate for IP's and games. Desperate enough to make a game after they get the IP's and not let them rot. The Wii U needs something, so what better way to get fans interested then offer them games that they enjoyed in the past.
That's the Nintendo business model : Offer you something you have tried and liked, but in a different place and a new coat of paint.
>>285782452
wow 3 games. did you strain yourself thinking of all those games.
>wonder pink
Seriously?
>>285774897
Yes, at least Nintendo would use megaman and we would see a megaman game at least yearly.
>>285782526
That didn't happen with Xenoblade. Fatal Frame doesn't release in the west anymore though
>>285782541
xbone is doing okay, better than WiiU, worse than the PS4.
>modern Capcom
Might as well buy what's left of Rare.
>>285782541
You triggered m8?
>>285782715
Sales-wise.
I was talking about exclusives. In which case Xbox is still second after Wii-U though.
>>285774897
>Should Nintendo buy Capcom?
no please fuck no
please
>>285782598
That's just because only 3 games so far has actually tried. Nintendo wouldn't mind if Idea Factory/Compile Heart put a Neptunia game on the Wii U, it's just that IF/CH hasn't done it yet.
>>285782771
>The console thats been out longer has more exclusives
No shit drone. Looks like Nintendo is the ones that blew their load. Literally NO GAMES for the future.
>>285782026
>DMC being in Nintendos hands
>Platinum being firendly with Nintendo
>DMC5 developed by Hideki Kamiay
>>285782757
I triggered you nigger, no trigger was bigger
My trigger had vigor to spare, yours lacked all rigor
Listen here you chigger infested nigger, you're pig tier
Now leave nigger, get back to being a ditch-digger
>>285778795
I am assuming he meant the wii games. As those had very high sales
>>285782324
>Implying I want gay shit like the Wii or Wii U
Nintendo consoles went down hill after the GC, their portables are the only consistently good thing about the company.
>>285783009
>drone
Guess that's what I get for prioritizing games over sales. Neogaf sure told me today.
>No games for the future
By the time the worthwhile exclusives for the other 2 drop there will likely be a new Nintendo console. In the meantime all the good 3rd party comes right to PC, thanks to Japs realizing they make more money with cross-platform and also the architecture on the PS4/Xbone being similar to a 2012 PC.
>>285783098
JUSTICE WOULD BE SERVED
>>285783296
>gay shit like the wii u
>>285783009
What's interesting is that if you took away all the garbage 3rd party stuff that EA/Activision and Ubisoft choke out, the other consoles would have similiar release schedules. Nintendo can't hide behind that many titles off the e-shop because they have less 3rd party support.
>all games aren't 1st party
LMAO!!>
>285782452
>>285783568
Well Rug, my dick isn't 3 inches so there's that.
>>285783568
>2nd class citizen
Meanwhile PC has
>full graphics, not the downgraded blur consoles get
>60fps
>modding
Patience is a virtue my friend
>>285774897
Nintendo just needs Mega Man, Ace Attorney and Monster hunter. anyone else can have the scraps
>>285774897
>At the end of 2014, Nintendo had about $7.8 billion in cash
Are they a bank or a gaming company? Seriously though, the Pii U has made Shitendo say See U to their Gee U (Growth potential). And it's like a Pii Pii with a Poo Poo, not a Wii U with a Wuu Wuu as they originally planned.
>>285784170
thanks master
>>285776504
Megaman STARTED on nintendo systems. If anything a return to them wouldn't just get the drones but bring back some of the fanbase that left.
NINTENDO SHOULD BUY THESE COMPANIES BECAUSE THEY WOULD TOTALLY USE ALL OF THOSE IPS WHEN THEY NEVER USE THEIR OWN
>>285784829
What/which IP/s has you so upset?
>>285776208
Dream come true.
>>285784170
>>285785024
Mystery Dungeon
