Japanese developer and publisher Capcom is looking to secure partnerships with overseas developers in the near future as it seeks to increase its overseas business.
“Acquisitions and partnerships are one of the important strategies for increasing our market share overseas,” reads a note sent to investors, GamesIndustry.biz reports. “We aggressively seek the opportunities of acquisitions and partnerships for the purposes of creating game content with universal market appeal and acquiring technologies and know-how required for our ‘Single Content Multiple Usage’ strategy.”
Last year Capcom said it was done having western developers work on original IP. Dark Void, developed by Airtight Games, and Bionic Commando, developed by GRIN, were both to blame for this; neither sold as well as hoped — Dark Void did 520,000 units when it was projected to do 2 million, and BC did 700,000 when it was expected to do 1.5 million.
