Recently, Director General of Capcom France Antoine Seux made some comments about PS3 and Xbox 360 being the "future" for the publisher as Wii sales have waned, particularly sales of core games on the Wii. "We note that games for 'gamers' are selling less and less on the Wii, whether it was MadWorld or Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, The House of the Dead: Overkill ... the sales were not extraordinary, and compared to the 140,000 copies Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition sold at the time, it is not even close. We are clearly concerned about this," Seux said.
His seemingly anti-Wii comments naturally caused a ruckus in the gaming sphere, and so now Capcom has tried to backtrack a bit. A simple PR statement from Capcom in Europe reads: "Further to comments made in a recent article on French website Gamekult, Capcom would like to confirm its commitment as a multi-platform developer and publisher of interactive software."
We understand why Capcom felt the need to issue the new statement, but that won't change the fact that third parties are having more and more trouble with mature content on the Wii. Sure, Capcom will continue to support the Wii. They'd be foolish not to. But the type of content they produce for the platform will undoubtedly be more of the casual variety going forward, and that's likely to be the case for most publishers.
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January 7, 2010
The PR team obviously felt the need to do some damage control, but even then I'm not sure what consolation Wii fans can take out of the statement - they didn't affirm any particular Wii titles, they just said they confirmed their "commitment as a multi-platform developer." Meaning as James said they won't stop making Wii games, but what sort of games remains in question; if all their "A" developers are concentrating on other platforms it doesn't give Wii gamers a lot to hope for.