Capcom still trying to bring Tatsunoko vs. Capcom to the west
March 11th, 2009 Posted in News, Posted by Valay, Wii“Do not rule it out [western release]. That is all I can say right now. We are still actively working on having that happen. I can’t say it’s happening definitively. I couldn’t give you a time frame, but as badly as the fans want it, we want to bring it.
There are licensing issues to contend with. The Tatsunoko rights are split as far as how they are held in the west. Tatsunoko obviously holds all of the rights in Japan so they can grant all of those characters usage through Japan very easily. But when they license those properties out to various stakeholders in the west, aligning all of those things properly, and to be fair the team that did it is working on something else now, so actually also clawing back the resources to do a localised version, to make any changes that are needed to get through those licensing issues, these are all things that need to be aligned before we can actually profit from this happening.”
The team that did it is a very talented team in high demand. And unfortunately they’re not an internal team so we don’t have 100 per cent control of saying OK just pull those guys back in. They have their own business to run.” – Capcom’s Christian Svensson, vice president, business development and strategic planning
Capcom does seem to be doing their best to bring Tatsunoko vs. Capcom to other territories. This game is just an unfortunate instance in that licensing issues and a few other roadblocks are preventing the game’s release.
- Capcom weighing different options to bring Tatsunoko vs. Capcom to North America Published on: February 17, 2009
- Which characters were nixed from Tatsunoko vs. Capcom? Published on: December 26, 2008
- The fate of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom won’t be known for a few months Published on: November 15, 2008
- Tatsunoko vs. Capcom facing licensing issues for a NA release, Capcom will do its best to bring it over Published on: October 12, 2008
- Rumor: Capcom Vs Tatsunoko seems to be heading to Wii Published on: August 25, 2008
8 Responses to “Capcom still trying to bring Tatsunoko vs. Capcom to the west”
By Rhytenow on Mar 11, 2009
I’d love for this to come to the states
By Anthony on Mar 11, 2009
WII want it lol, bring it over no matter how long it takes and make sure every character stays in it!
By 357 Lobster on Mar 12, 2009
Agreed! I will wait patiently.
By 357 Lobster on Mar 12, 2009
Or fudge it and bring Marvel vs Capcom 3. Yeah I know.(dies a little inside)
By Anthony on Mar 12, 2009
A MvsC game would also be appreciated
By Anthony on Mar 15, 2009
This really needs to come out soon, everyone else is playing SF4 on their other systems, we want to fight too
heck port that game over to.