For years Capcom and Nintendo have a had a wonderful relationship.
If you look at the NES you will see many games developed/published by Capcom.
Those were some of the best NES games made.
Then you go to the next generation of Nintendo consoles, the Super Nintendo.
You saw a few Capcom games drift way onto the Sega Genesis, but the majority of games were exclusive to the Super Nintendo.
The Super Nintendo was able to keep the Mega Man Series exclusive, a series which started early on the NES.
Then the third generation of systems rolled in. Now with a new competitor, Sony.
The Sony Playstation soon took the world by surprise, and took Nintendo off the thrown as the top selling console company.
Capcom instantly took a liking to the Playstation, with there new sleek system, and with there cool advertising that appealed to teens and adults.
BAM! There goes most of Capcoms support for Nintendo.
At the end, you saw only 3 Capcom games on the N64.
And the Sony Playstation saw over 40 games developed by Capcom!
The Playstation also took the Mega Man series, which has been a Nintendo exclusive since its beginning on the NES in '87.
With that, people thought Capcom was now a exclusively a Sony developer.
Then the next generation of systems came out, and Nintendo manages to get back some Capcom support.
You started to see Resident Evil leave the Playstation for the GameCube..
You also started to see other GameCube exclusives, such as he hit game Viewtiful Joe.
Yes, of course you still saw Capcom games on the Playstation and X-Box, but Nintendo had won back an exclusive game deal with Capcom.
But sadly, Nintendo hasn't been able to wow Capcom enough to keep them.
Capcom took a chance with the Gamecube, and has since regretted it.
Now you see Resident Evil being re-released on the Playstation 2, as well as Viewtiful Joe.
Capcom is a worldwide leader in game developing. The Playstation 2 is currently the number one selling system. So Capcom goes with them.
So sadly Nintendo has lost Capcom as an exclusive developer. They will have to become number one again to win them back.
In closing, when you really think about it, Capcom was never dazzled by Nintendo, or Sony. They just went with the number 1 selling system.
The NES and SNES were number 1 for their generation, and that is why Capcom chose them. Then the Playstation became number 1, and Capcom went with them.
Capcom will go where the systems sell.
So unless Nintendo becomes number 1, or truly has a system that is revolutionary, they are going to have to say Bye Bye to Capcom.
Say Bye to Capcom, as well as a number of other developers.

Written By: Joey Anderson
Date Written: May 13th, 2005