Citing disappointment with Swedish studio GRIN’s Bionic Commando, Capcom has said it is changing how it outsources game development to studios in the West. Gamasutra reports on comments the company made to analysts on an earnings call. Capcom said working in conjunction with GRIN on Bionic Commando showed the difficulty of using overseas companies to develop new games. The game launched to poor critical reception and sold a meager 27,000 units at launch for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 combined, based on NPD figures for its first two weeks. Capcom told analysts that while it could not develop enough games without using outside studios, it’s changing outsourcing strategy to one of using Western studios only for well-established characters and universal themes and certain parts and/or lineups of such games. The company added that as part of separating activities at Japan studios from those in the West, it planned to create new titles primarily in Japan. Read more at Gamasutra.

Capcom Reconsiders Role Of Western Game Studios
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