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No bids for Midway?
5 months ago  ::  Jun 29, 2009 - 6:40PM #1
LingPanda
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What about Midway did Capcom not want any part off? One of the greatest fighting franchises ever gets one bid?

5 months ago  ::  Jun 29, 2009 - 8:26PM #2
Zoop
Posts: 1962

Jun 29, 2009 -- 6:40PM, LingPanda wrote:

One of the greatest fighting franchises



You should be a comedian, you'll make a killing.

wait, what?
5 months ago  ::  Jun 30, 2009 - 2:50AM #3
Sven
Posts: 6379

There's a LOT of ex-Midway people in Capcom's offices currently (me, my boss, our vp of PD and vp of marketing among them), so we have a pretty good idea of where the company's value lies and it wasn't a good match for our needs.


Frankly, we've got plenty of our own fighting franchises, and the value of MK to Capcom versus to a company that doesn't have established franchises in the space is somewhat different.


I do wish the folks still there good luck. There are still some good people there.

Christian Svensson


Now Playing: WoW, Fat Princess, MvC2, Magic: The Gathering, Age of Booty (360)
5 months ago  ::  Jul 01, 2009 - 3:18AM #4
LBD_Nytetrayn
Posts: 1260

Indeed, I hope that Midway will be able to turn itself around and become the company I used to have a certain fondness for.


Besides which, unless I missed something in the bankruptcy proceedings, whoever inherits Midway is also going to inherit their debt-- something I think Capcom neither needs nor wants, if I had to guess.


--LBD "Nytetrayn"

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