kotaku.com— Clover Studio was shuttered by main shareholder Capcom. At a Board of Directors' meeting was held, and it was decided that Clover should dissolved. The reason? According to the Capcom IR release...
Oct 12, 2006View in Crawl 4
I agree.I know it's improbable but every time I see something like this I wonder close it all is to crashing down. This holiday will be quite telling. I have no doubt there will be a PS3 shortage and plenty of media coverage but the 70 million + selling PS2 left some giant shoes to fill.The 360 appears to be healthy but does it have any growth left? If you haven't bought one already I don't see anything on the horizon that would convince you.The Wii is interesting and certainly attractive to enthusiasts but we have yet to see how they intend to market it to everyone else. Nintendo isn't synonymous with games the way it was 15 years ago.
I think this dissolution was brought about by lack of production efficiency, if I might stab a guess.These games all have very different game engines, which take much manpower/hours to create. Capcom would probably like to create games off a single, common engine (a'la FPS games and their Unreal 3 engine), which would not be possible for games Clover makes (well, without giving up a lot of their creative design).I feel this isn't the last we'll see of Clover. I'd like to imagine they're not gone, just hiding for a few until they get a business started of their own.
sovietninjaOct 12, 2006
Anyone but Sony.AND EA. F*** EA.
022aOct 12, 2006
I agree.I know it's improbable but every time I see something like this I wonder close it all is to crashing down. This holiday will be quite telling. I have no doubt there will be a PS3 shortage and plenty of media coverage but the 70 million + selling PS2 left some giant shoes to fill.The 360 appears to be healthy but does it have any growth left? If you haven't bought one already I don't see anything on the horizon that would convince you.The Wii is interesting and certainly attractive to enthusiasts but we have yet to see how they intend to market it to everyone else. Nintendo isn't synonymous with games the way it was 15 years ago.
kuriOct 13, 2006
I think this dissolution was brought about by lack of production efficiency, if I might stab a guess.These games all have very different game engines, which take much manpower/hours to create. Capcom would probably like to create games off a single, common engine (a'la FPS games and their Unreal 3 engine), which would not be possible for games Clover makes (well, without giving up a lot of their creative design).I feel this isn't the last we'll see of Clover. I'd like to imagine they're not gone, just hiding for a few until they get a business started of their own.
goombellaofgoomOct 13, 2006
I'm fine with Clover going solo, as long as they keep the rights to their IP's. Especially Viewtiful Joe and Okami. VJ was supposed to be a trilogy...
nunomaiaOct 13, 2006
i dont wish their death but i thought okami is totally overrated.