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Capcom Still Working With Western Developers
Earlier in the year, Capcom’s COO Haruhiro Tsujumoto made statements that sounded like Capcom was turning its back on western developers. In a recent interview with Gamasutra.com, Capcom U.S. VP of strategic planning and business development, Christian Svensson, was able to clarify those comments. It seems that Capcom is still very much interested in working with western developers.
"I'm not exactly sure what the intent of [Tsujumoto]'s statements were, but I also know that I saw how they were taken by a lot of media,” said Svensson. “I think they were not quite interpreted the right way.”
Svensson went on to say, "We probably have more and bigger projects in development or soon to be in development with Western developers than we've ever had. But, they aren't new IP."
Glad we could get this cleared up. Sounds like Capcom has just shifted it focus, letting the development of new IP fall on its stable of Japanese developers, while the western teams focus on existing IP. Now we can all shake hands and buy the world a coke.
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