Capcom scuttles Flagship

Glad to see that these people that did work on the story and dialogue of the Oracle games are not out of jobs. That's a relief! I'm playing Ages right now and I love it. I hope this is the first Zelda game I ever beat seeing as I am just now SERIOUSLY getting into the games.

and then microsoft will merge with the moon

next generation means some new studios to go along with new ideas, it isn't as if capcom hasn't done this before-the guys in flagship made games for capcom before 1997 too, under a different name-now that the game boy advance is no longer being developed for, the associated studio name isn't needed, makes perfect sense. Same happened with clover, that doesn't ,mean there won't be another veiwtiful joe game, just they'll be in a new studio with a new overall goal. restructuring for newer games, and as capcom are considering doing film tie in games for extra revenue, they'll still need all that talent they have.

Actually, that Four Sword game for the DS was terminated a long time ago. It was replaced with the more anticipated "Phantom Hourglass".

Wait a sec. So, does this mean that the anticipated "Four Swords" for the DS is now terminated? Uh-Oh!

smooth move ex-lax

I wonder if the rumors are true and Capcom is preparing to ultimately merge with Microsoft.

Pay attention people. Capcom just disolved the NAMES,The people that made the games WILL STILL BE MAKING THE GAMES...just under the Capcom name. :According to a Capcom spokesperson, while the Flagship name is getting the axe, its employees won't be. Noting that the only thing to change will be the company name on their business cards"

looks like capcom loves giving the axe!

Financial buisness aside, is there any other reason for doing this, I wonder.

If you read the article the people who did the designs are remaining with Capcom so it's a mute point.

Poor decision!

At the risk of sounding repetitive, they made good games, why do this to them?

Wow, just why? This is a good little studio they made good fun and high quality games.

This sucks they make great games.

Well, at least the people are staying, still, it's a shame to see the studio who was behind Minish Cap gotten rid of.

I'm a little disappointed that the studio is going to be losing the Flagship name, as Flagship is responsible for some of the best externally developed Nintendo games, but I'm also very relieved that they aren't going the way of Clover. By the way, does anyone know if Flagship is developing Phantom Hourglass, or is Nintendo developing it internally?

Well, at least the folks are still with Capcom. . .Still, the name did mean something: a development group which did great things with Nintendo's licenses. That's a grand accomplishment. (See the new Wario for an example of how easily a non-Nintendo developer can botch a Nintendo franchise entry.)

it's good they'll continue workin on the same capacities, they have done some really kool games

I hope they continue to work on good games for the DS...

So they are just changing their names.

Wow that's wrong.

Does this mean no more portable games for nintendo?

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Why does Capcom always feel the need to make me love and hate them at the same time?

Capcom is doing a lot of house cleaning. i think they want to streamline their operations in a more efficient manner. Personally Nintendo is getting the shaft Flagship and Clover were all pro-Nintendo.They made a ton of games that were orientated more for Nintendo consoles than XBOX or Sony.

Well they aren't losing their jobs....:)

This is a good thing

Just a shake up and a retune? Doesn't sound too bad.

So doesnt really effect nething

this is good, means quicker games from capcom.

Nintendo should buy Capcom.

0.0 Flagship Studios is being dissovled?!?!......

Proably mostly due to confusion between Flagship Studios and Flagship. Good move.

it's sad when a company dies, but atleast the members are still working. By the way, what's up with Capcom doing all this crap?

I guess HAL will take over developer status for the handheld Kirby games now.

why can't everyone read? The name Flagship is gone, not the the people working. They STILL work for Capcom! Minish Cap and 4swords was awesome

Seems like not too huge a deal, if this is true. That is, that they will still be around, just not under the name "flagship". Too bad Capcom is doing this. Clover and Flagship were the companies two best assets.

OMG that is LARGEST mistake ever made. Flagship only made one of the top notch games for Nintendo consoles.

Wow man, they're not closing studios, they're just renaming and moving them. Yo a noobs

i dont see what the big deal is, same people that made those games are sticking around. Theyre just going to be solely under the capcom umbrella. That means larger budgets to work on those games everyone is complaining about disappearing so they'll be better than before. So whys everyone crying?

Damn. Just like with Clover.

Tsk, losing Clover was it's first mistake.

they're not closing studios they are keeping the staff just taking away the pointless need to be taxed for multiple brand names

Why are they doing that?

Ugh... Flagship made a lot of good games... Too bad, the oracle games and Alttp/FS were really bad and another one would be appreciated.

Yeeesh. Is Capcom *intentionally* trying to run itself out of business by closing studios like this?

(at Somini) In the future? How do you explain the recent string of lousy Mega Man games? RE4 is the only great game from Capcom itself that was recently released that I can think of. Okami is one of the best Capcom published games ever, and Clover's gone. Now what?

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.