slightly OT, but I miss dearly the esoteric Capcom that died off after the PS2/GCN/Xbox generation. Guys who didn't just fund very niche-y games like Clock Tower 3, Once Piece Mansion (not anime related) Under the Skin, Viewtiful Joe, Godhand and Killer 7. But they were also a pretty good publisher or games that they otherwise had no part in, like Way of the Samurai 2, Flipnic, Defender of the Crown, Toki Tori and Shantae and Dragons Lair (Game Boy Color versions).
as Oscar said, Capcom used to go after the small dollars, and they did it well. Hell, they kept putting out Dreamcast games well after other established parties had fled that sinking ship. That's where my affection for Capcom comes from, yeah, sure, I loved me some Resident Evil back then, but was any other company going to give me Gunbird 2? They used to cater to every kind of gamer, now they really don't shivagit.
I know that's the market being way tougher then it used to be, but I still can't help but think that almost any other investment, even trying to be a Atlus-junior division, would paid out better then whatever they spent on Lost Planet 3, for example.
