Capcom's Magic 8-Ball for ports? eBay

10 Comments by Jason Dobson Jun 13th 2008 8:30AM
Filed under: Culture, Business

When banking on nostalgia, how does a company decide what games to pull from the vault? If you're Capcom, one way is to scout eBay to see for what games fans are willing to fork over mad cash to add to their collections. Capcom's John Diamonon tells MTV Multiplayer: "Sometimes we see games on eBay, and that's how you see what games people are willing to spend $80 on."

Of course, this isn't the only tool Capcom uses, else we'd all be playing Marvel vs. Capcom 2 HD Remix (drool). "It's certainly not the only thing we do," he added. "But sometimes we look there to assess the market value of a game." It's encouraging to see Capcom keeping its fingers on the pulse of the community, giving us hope that maybe someday Cannon Spike will get some love as well.

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Joe: Jun 13th 2008; 8:45AM

If only Nintendo did this, we'd have EarthBound on VC a year ago.

goboColossus (LIVE, PSN - gobopop): Jun 13th 2008; 8:49AM

We'd have Mother 1+2 and 3... We'd have Kid Icarus 3... We'd have a 2D Metroid sequel... We'd have everything we always wanted!

voodoo_craig: Jun 13th 2008; 9:02AM

We still wouldn't have a USB HDD.....

Kyattsuai: Jun 13th 2008; 9:26AM

Yikes, I guess that snuffs out all hope for a PN 03 sequel (there's pretty much 8 copies of it up for a dime or less).

Xoviet chiK: Jun 13th 2008; 9:33AM

Brilliant Idea: bid $100,000,000,000 - on all copies!

We need that sequel!

kataztrophy: Jun 13th 2008; 9:50AM

-Bids $90 on one of the Darkstalkers games-

Jhongerkong: Jun 13th 2008; 11:24AM

Maybe then we could get a NEW Morrigan sprite

MuToiD_MaN: Jun 13th 2008; 2:20PM

Hahaha, never! Morrigan will never change! Look how long it took Street Fighter to get to III and then to IV, and those are just roman numerals. Someone would actually have to DRAW in order for her to change.

Dracula Jones: Jun 13th 2008; 11:07AM

MvC has got to be a license nightmare at this point. A lot of the big name characters are individually licensed and the rest are Activision's, right? Maybe going forward, license contracts should include some kind of rerelease rights.

Mr Khan: Jun 13th 2008; 3:58PM

If only SEGA did this, most everything good in the Saturn library would've been done

Of course, they did do NiGHTS

On PS2 only

In Japan

(sigh)

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