Capcom USA senior VP on expanding his company's PC offerings

Capcom USA senior VP, Christian Svensson, took to his official Capcom blog to detail his company's growing commitment to the PC market.

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Responding to concerns from a fan during an "Ask Capcom" Q&A session that the Capcom brass is not taking the PC market seriously, Capcom USA corporate office and senior VP Christian Svensson revealed how there is a push for more PC support from a group within the company.

Svensson noted in a blog post that, along with himself, Capcom's European COO, David Reeves; Capcom Germany's, Michael Auer; Jun Takeuchi; and the MT Framework team have been the biggest supporters for the platform. "I’m happy to say that those few select people are getting increasing support from a broader array of stakeholders globally," Svensson wrote.

"We were the first non-Valve game to do a Steam integration," he noted. "What is now known as Steamworks, was initiated as a project where Valve worked with Capcom to pull bits of their Half-Life libraries apart so that we could integrate them into Lost Planet 1." The first Lost Planet, Svensson added, was also "the first commercial DirectX10 game on the market."

This is certainly a far cry from other PC releases the company has had a hand in, which were launch disasters. For example: when it first launched, Resident Evil 4 on the PC didn't even include a menu option to exit the game or any lighting effects. It was later patched.

Capcom's focus on PC has also come into the public spotlight during recent announcements. Recently, the company has announced PC versions for a number of titles, including Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. "At green light meetings, our Japanese COO and the head of the consumer and online software business increasingly request a PC version if one is not being proposed at the outset of a project," Svensson revealed.

Svensson admits that he doesn't feel that Capcom's PC offerings are exactly where he'd like them to be; however, he feels that "the future is getting better for Capcom fans who are PC gamers all over the world."

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    May 12, 2011 2:00 PM

    Xav de Matos posted a new article, Capcom USA senior VP on expanding his company's PC offerings.

    Capcom USA senior VP, Christian Svensson, took to his official Capcom blog to detail his company's growing commitment to the PC market.

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      May 12, 2011 2:04 PM

      Doesn't matter if your first to do something if your game sucked.

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      May 12, 2011 2:05 PM

      Dear Capcom, I would enjoy a PC version of Marvel vs Capcom 3. Thanks!

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        May 12, 2011 2:47 PM

        That would be a great step in the right direction.

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      May 12, 2011 2:06 PM

      How about offering your company's DLC for your games Capcom?

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      May 12, 2011 2:24 PM

      Dear Capcom, please make sequels to the Bionic Commando remake (2009) and Dark Void. Yes there are customers out there who actually enjoyed those games very much.

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        May 12, 2011 2:28 PM

        There are maybe 2 customers who want sequels to those shit fests and you are 1 of those 10, valcan_s is the other.

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          May 12, 2011 2:50 PM

          lol

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          May 12, 2011 2:51 PM

          I feel like you thought of that cool binary joke halfway through making this post, but forgot to change the first number so it would make sense.

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            May 12, 2011 2:57 PM

            no I was thinking there were maybe 10 people total, but then I figured no that is too many people to want sequels because those games sucked ass so I changed it to 2. Just not in both places.

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              May 12, 2011 3:33 PM

              Ok what made them suck ass so much? (and don't plagiarize review websites like IGN because the are 9 times out of 10 full of complete shit) Those games reminded me of just plain good fun, the way old school games used to be, sure they were both cheesy as hell but at least both of them tried new gameplay mechanics instead of just playing it safe and copying every other developer out there.

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                May 12, 2011 3:41 PM

                Give me about an hour to get home and I will post my thoughts.

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                May 12, 2011 5:11 PM

                Dude don't listen to this guy he has no idea what he is talking about I had a fight with someone before about Darkvoid which I love and BC remake which I like as well.

                Some people can not appreciate certain games especially if the majority of review sites bash the shit out of them.

                I can not tell you how it hurts to here people say Darkvoid = shit I really freekin love that game for some reason.

                Anyways I agree I hope they make sequels as well, don't pay attention about the hate as long as you enjoy it is all that matters. The only crappy part for fans like us, if more loved it we would have a better chance at follow ups.

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                  May 12, 2011 5:24 PM

                  It was me who you discussed it with earlier. Game was garbage. Will write more here in a bit.

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                    May 12, 2011 5:27 PM

                    No matter what you write it wont change my opinion about the games it just sucks that people like you may have ruined the chances of someone else playing them and actually enjoying them.

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                    May 12, 2011 5:44 PM

                    Seriously don'y bother, go play some games instead.

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                    May 12, 2011 9:39 PM

                    FYI I really enjoyed the BC Remake, didn't play DarkVoid but a friend of mine really liked it.

                    I guess that makes 3 of us.

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      May 12, 2011 2:33 PM

      Pretty neat trivia there. I didn't care for Lost Planet past maybe the third stage or so and it did a whole mess of things wrong, but it's neat to find out that they were the first non-Valve company to integrate Steamworks into a title.

      I just wish they'd produce better games. :(

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      May 12, 2011 2:56 PM

      Recoded Mega Man X and Resident Evil 1-2-3 series PC releases, please.

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        May 12, 2011 3:40 PM

        RE3 for sure. I downloaded it for the PC and I remember the days of pixelated blood on the Playstation 1.

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      May 12, 2011 4:37 PM

      If you can't release games on the PSN you might as well release them on PC?

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      May 13, 2011 6:22 AM

      their commitment is the same as its always been. meh.

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      May 13, 2011 11:51 AM

      Where's Marvel vs Capcom 3 for PC, Capcom? Just use Steam for DRM, Steamworks, and delivery. Use Xbox 360 controller as the baseline control method.

      Boom. You're welcome.

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