This article refers to both Capcom & Bioware, but I am more worried about CapCom (Phoenix Wright, SF4) http://www.tuaw.com/2010/08/02/capcom-and-bioware-disappointed-in-iphone-app-performance/
Well, it's not just Appstore, Capcom's profit is down by 73% and other consoles in fact perform worse than Appstore, most notably Wii with Monster Hunter Tri. http://fingergaming.com/2010/07/30/capcom-faces-poor-console-performance-iphoneipad-titles-achieve-projected-sales/
OBJECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is a CONTRADICTION IN THAT TESTIMONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Meh, I help boosted their sales 2 weeks ago, I bought Monster Hunter Tri and am loving it, spent 58 hours already Now if only they made it for iphone, I'd pay 20 bucks for it!
Unfortunately not everyone feels this way. It has great gameplay (hours of fun), memorable characters, difficult in a good way. It's just that good.
Capcom's efforts are not really all that impressive -- it's not new games that they are releasing to the appstore, but old ones and tired familiar series names that have been previously released on other platforms, and fans of these games probably already played these games on those other platforms. Games from consoles played on TVs squashed into a small screen. Phoenix Wright is an old DS game (although the japanese had it on the GBA first). Want to make people excited -- make some new games for first release on the idevices.
>Game market is down >Capcom games perform "as expected" >SOUNDS LIKE THEY DEFEATED THE DOWNWARD TREND having difficulty understanding why they'd be disappointed here..
