Comments on: Capcom On Digital Distribution, PC Ubiquity

By: Feanor

Feanor — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:44:26 +0000

Hope they announce RE 5 on PC via Steam at E3.

By: extrabastardformula

extrabastardformula — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:43:56 +0000

I’m ok with steam as the purchase place for SF4, but I’m really hoping that they’ll go GGPO for the multiplayer or at least license the GGPO code like they did for the HD remix of Super Turbo. Vanilla Steam would probably be too laggy to be enjoyable.

By: RotBot

RotBot — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:51:05 +0000

Valve borrowed code from Lost Planet to make Steamworks?

By: subedii

subedii — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:19:19 +0000

Not only that, but at a time when developers are constantly grumbling about second hand sales “destroying” the industry and their beloved products, Digital Distribution is a means to effectively shut out the entire second hand market.

I’m calling it now, DD isn’t just going to become prevalent on the PC, in future more and more devs are going to be heavily focussed on DD with their console games as well.

At the moment, retail is king, and will be for a long time yet (bandwidth and internet services just aren’t there yet in a lot of major markets). But whilst the majority of per unit sales are still going to be from retail for the time being, I can potentially see it happening within the next ten years that most major devs will be making more money off of their DD sales than retail.

With that comes a shift in which market you cater more, so I expect that games content will become a lot more fluid over time, and there’ll be more emphasis on developing the product after it’s shipped, as opposed to the six week retail window that’s currently the emphasis of major releases.

Now comes the question of whether they’re going to still stick with those frickin’ install limits. *grumble*

By: Thecolours

Thecolours — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:16:47 +0000

Digital Distribution is more imortant to Capcom, and all developers in gereral, because it makes them more money than retail.

By: dekobko

dekobko — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:42:06 +0000

I just want bionic commando: rearmed on steam. That’s all. (also SF4, too)

By: Doctor Evil

Doctor Evil — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:17:42 +0000

Devil May Cry 4, Lost Planet and Bionic Commando, are awesome ports like they where made for PC :D

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:17:42 +0000

You know, the thing I was most impressed with in this interview is that he used the term “current-gen” instead of “next-gen”. I’d go as far as say the rest of it is not all hypespeak, either, there’s meaning and substance to his words.

By: catska

catska — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:36:54 +0000

Nice to see a developer not shying away from talking about the problem of piracy for fear of angering a bunch of PC elitists who for some reason get up in arms when piracy is mentioned.

The return rate on PC games stat was interesting as well, as I thought that would be lower since many retailers don’t take returns on PC games. I guess the barrier of entry is finally catching up to the market which is now a lot more casual than it was 10 years ago. Moms and Grandparents buying Sims or Peggle don’t want to have to deal with driver installations and troubleshooting I suppose.

It’s nice that Capcom is releasing games for the PC, but considering the fact that they come out usually 6 months later after everyone who is already interested in the game has already played it, does it really matter?

By: Buemba

Buemba — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:43:45 +0000

Given the healthy online community that plays fighting games on PC using MAME I have no doubt Street Fighter IV will do well on it.

And it’s refreshing to see publisher recognize that the PC still is the platform of choice in several parts of the world. Currently the only company that takes the Brazilian PC market seriously is EA – they always release games here on the same day or close to the US release date.

By: Kleevah

Kleevah — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:10:17 +0000

Where is my RE5 on PC Capcom? You said there would be RE5…

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:09:31 +0000

Here’s hoping for RE5 on Steam. I like how Capcom seems to want to mingle with the PC crowd now. And would very much like them to keep it up. There’s some games of theirs I’d like to play but I don’t want to have to buy a this-gen console to do it.

(I’ve been something of a cheapskate ever since upgrading my comp.)