October 2010

Keiji Inafune Left Capcom. Impact?

Keiji Inafune Left Capcom. Impact?
Something happen at Capcom huh.
Capcom's head of Research & Development and Online Business and Global Head of Production had left the company. He was the boss of many game projects and was considered the top of Capcom developers.
What is the impact of his resignation?
Kinect's Steel Battalion：Heavy Armor may vanish.
Steel Battalion may vanish!?
Some projects directed by Keiji Inafune may cancel. Depends on the next boss and the company's will.
When will we see the influence of this case?
2 years later. Games launching 1 year later maybe affected too. Those games under development may not dig into depth.
Is that negative?
Maybe not. The staff could act freely. We need to see games in the future to consider that.
Huh.
New projects starting from now on may have new challenge. We need to wait 2 years to see the result.
So depends on Capcom's effort huh.
How about Keiji Inafune himself?
Who knows?
What the...
He had said many words and I thought he should start his own company. Hope he would realize his own words.
Can he?
I don't think so.
Why!!
He can't get staff and money now. In the past a guy left Capcom and made BAYONETTA and VANQUISH. But nowadays no one needs another HD developer for PS3 and Xbox 360. Tomonobu Itagaki could get staff so he got money. But this time hard to happen again.
Oh...
This time the timing is bad. Maybe he can choose 3DS.
Finally, how about his words?
He always talk about oversea-oriented. I know foreign market is big but Japanese game can be successful oversea too, like Nintendo and Level-5. He maybe right as he said game development should be held oversea.
Ideal and reality huh.
He has his style though. Hope he and Capcom can find a new way.

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Atlus Collapsing

Atlus Collapsing
Today is about the collapsing Atlus.
Why do you think Atlus is collapsing...
That's the truth of universe.
What the...
Atlus had been absorbed by Index Holdings so Atlus no longer exist, but the brand remains. The new company will be called Index.
So related to these stuff?
Yep. We had talked about the death of Atlus, this time let's explain more.
Someone said they don't know about Index Holdings.
Just a lump of rubbish.
Too harsh...
They become famous at the Mobile Business Bubble. They earned enough money to buy other companies, like game company NEC Interchannel and anime company MadHouse. Atlus is just another case.
Old Namco's movie company Nikkatsu is also under Index Holdings now.
However, they just buy those companies but can't use them effectively, so Index Holdings business is not good, deficit increase for 4 years. Looking at the pass 8 years, after the bubble they had 5 year deficit, and ate up all their asset. Just rubbish.
Oh...
Such rubbish became the boss of Atlus. I had warned against this since Feb 2010, when Atlus became the subsidiary of Index.
But Atlus already cut its arcade business. Would Atlus still collapse?
Problem appears when those rubbish directly control Atlus, after the total absorption.
Problem?
Those rubbish can only create deficit and now they instruct game development of Atlus. Rubbish always force others to obey their stupid idea and Atlus can't resist.
Would that become reality?
Under the truth of universe, that will become reality.
Why...
If Index is normal, they should just let Atlus to continue their own way. However Index is full of rubbish and I can't see they would do anything normal.
Don't say rubbish again and again.
Numbers telling the truth. Index Holdings stock price became 1/5 within last year. Consider their highest price 0.25 million yen, the rubbish made their company 1/100.
Well, maybe you're right...
Atlus is a good company in game industry, but the new boss is just too bad.
Let's look forward to their future.
The bomb is close to explode, really annoying...

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