Clover Studio is dead.

[Andy]

http://ir.capcom.co.jp/news/html/061012a.html

Apparently all of those question marks and shit mean that Clover Studio is gone.

Damn it. Damn it, Capcom.

Cock.

[Tain]

Pretty abrupt and harsh, but certainly Capcom just takes the members back into whatever other teams they have?

[Schlep]

Games heavily oriented towards Japan + no sales in Japan = dead Clover.

[Andy]

Pretty abrupt and harsh, but certainly Capcom just takes the members back into whatever other teams they have?

I would think so, at least the real creative minds at the company (Mikami, Inaba, whoever else). Still, creating games under the wing of Capcom proper probably lends itself less to new ip and unique ideas.

But hey, Inafune sure knows how to do it (Dead Rising/Lost Planet); hopefully Mikami and crew will be afforded the same treatment when they go back to Capcom.

[Schlep]

I've only played a very little bit of Okami (waiting for it to hit $20), but it seems great. Hopefully Capcom doesn't throw away Clover's franchises. A next-gen Okami would melt eyeballs.

[marwan]

seeing as how Okami is overrated and nothing special, i'm not surprised.

[Yoshi]

seeing as how Okami is overrated and nothing special, i'm not surprised.

Same with Viewtiful Joe. I can't speak to God Hand.

[Chux]

God Hand.

LOL, me and Korly were talking about this last night, I told him I'd never spend money on it, he was like but it's CLOVER DOOD!11. I told him I still don't care.

Now they're gone. GG, you gayed yourselves out of the industry.

[Finch]

Poor old Clover. It happens just when i was starting to like them.

[Nick]

I blame the TNL Okami review.