Capcom scuttles Flagship

I don't like this at all. I think that Capcom is making enough money to support their smaller developers as well. Dissolving Clover was a monumental mistake, IMO, and now this. I can see the future Capcom only making mainstream games and not caring about innovation at all.

Rave_n2 Hal Labratories is the one that made the Console Kirby games, and the Handheld Kirby games before Flagship made the Handheld games since Kirby was created by Hal Labratories.

(at rave_n2) No. HAL Labs has been doing them too. I guess Phantom Hourglass isn't being developed by these guys, though. I figured it was...

Well, somebody will take over for these games... but who? Capcom directly?

Does this mean there won't be any more kirby games???

Um...Viewtiful Joe was Clover studios, and they've been gone for a while.

Zelda Oracle of Ages and Season were AMAZING games you only need to see the ratings of those games but not only that they sold around 4 million copies worldwide...so they made a lot of money off the Zelda name.

There goes any chance of another viewtiful joe game

Redsyrup Were the Zelda games they made produced horrible too? As for this news, I bet this game will atleast be decent, it has to be if it's affiliated with Nintendo...

What is wrong with capcom? why are they getting rid of developers who make good games and not the ones who make bad games???

read about 3rd party problems with nintendo. they are abandoning it because they cant make money. they made good money with their 360 games and are going to devote their resorces to where they make the most money.

What? No Flagship? NOOOOOOOOOOO...

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That's too bad... those were decent games. But Nintendo's not brain-dead... they know how important Zelda is to their success and will certainly keep that in mind if they decide they need help with their next installment.

Maybe it's because squak squad sucked.

Wow, didn't even know that the handheld Zeldas were made by a Capcom subsidiary. Guess you learn something new everyday :O

That's sad, I loved Minish Cap.

Why does Capcom want to ruin any more good games from coming out?

Well if they are merging with them then there shouldn't be too many problems.

they want to save money, it is just biz.

this proboly means they will become the psp devision of capcom

Are you guys behind on news or what. Checking their IR page once a week would do some good.

NOOOOOOOOOO! I loved Flagship's work...

ScarfaceLP I agree Nintendo can make there own division with those developers and and have them make Handheld exclusives have them as a 2nd Party developer, or maybe First Party developer.

Nintendo needs to run and pick up ever single person that's part of the Flagship team, all of those handheld Zelda's were highly polished and entertaining. Every game listed above was real good.

I never cared for Zelda on handhelds, and Gameboy style development is better aimed at DS or downloadable games. Clover is the big loss, but I think it was more about the Clover people wanting out than Capcom closing it. Viewtiful Joe was a nice surprise that came out of nowhere, but it was already getting tired. Better it die with some dignity than have more bad games tied to it. For once Capcom decided not to milk a franchise dry, probably because VJ didn't do too well financially in the first place. I'd like to see a Megaman game that played and looked like Viewtiful Joe, that would breath life into a really tired franchise, and keep the spirit of another. I'd really like a new Megaman Legends as well. That series was vastly under-appreciated and was the only time that franchise showed any promise of a different kind of game. I could almost see it as an online game, maybe even a semi-MMO like Monster Hunter.

So they're absorbing the small, really good studio and then killing it off. I don't know corporate dynamics, and I really don't want to try, but my best guess they're attempting to repurpose the developers directly under the Capcom name. Of course, some of them could still end up leaving, but I'm sure they'll keep some of them.

Competition is a scary thing so I guess you throw money and then bait and switch. GG

Capcom must have developed some unexplainable disease which causes them to delete awesome stuff. Now, no Viewtiful Joe and maybe no more Four Swords? Capcom are doing wrong, and they need to right those wrongs before their reputation falls drown the drain faster than some particularly wet coins.

"Humikimi Yeesh what is going on with Capcom. First Clover and now Flagship. It is like they enjoy dissolving studios that make GOOD games." The trend these days is away from GOOD games, and toward mass market games that are dumbed down so the maximum number of people are interested in purchasing them...Sad, Hollywood went through a period that was very similar. Thats why you see so many indie films nowadays, because the big wigs finally figured out that you can't have everything appeal to everyone, hence the NEED for a niche market.

Noooooooo! My subrosian brethren! Oracle of Seasons / Oracle of Ages was great stuff, it will be missed!

that's sad to hear, they actually were a talented team. I'm very impressed with how well they did with Minish Cap, it's not your every day non-Nintendo developer that can translate the essentials of the Zelda franchise into their own Zelda game.

Yeesh what is going on with Capcom. First Clover and now Flagship. It is like they enjoy dissolving studios that make GOOD games. Well I guess we will have to see where this goes next, since pretty much all portable Zelda games minus Link's Awakening have been done by these guys.

@ Latinbro Capcom isn't dissolving. Unless I have misunderstood this article, it seems Capcom is MERGING with flagship (their subsidary) and then are going to dissolve them.

damn wtf, clover and flagship were great development teams.. whats the deal?

wait a sec...? who is Capcom merging with? I got the Flagship disolving and Capcom disolving. but I read a merge and am confused now.

Blimey, companies dissolving all over the place!

The only good Zelda game they made that were actually epic were the Oracle of Ages and Seasons. But then again, they weren't progressing well and actually needed Miyamoto to step in and help them with that, without his large influence those games would have turned out terrible. So I don't really care what happens to these guys in terms of Zelda.

capcom.. plez...i want street fighter

the Zelda games were pretty good, I hope someone picks these guys up, it would be a shame to let their talents go to waste like that.

Maybe Nintendo can pickup some Devs here, they have worked well with them in the past. Flagship is a decent studio just nothing that slams you in the face with awesome(Although Minish Cap was pretty good.)

munsoned 1st?never heard of this game ------------------ same

1st?never heard of this game