Sven on game rights for older titles, Pocket Fighter



Several
people have asked Capcom over the years to re-release their games on
various platforms. According to company V.P. Christian Svensson, there
can be significant costs and other factors, which lead Capcom away from
doing so.

Christian recently made a few posts on the Unity Boards which clarify their stance on the matter.

Doesn't Capcom own the full rights to their old games like Rival Schools and such?

Sven: In this day and age there's rarely any such thing as "full rights".

For example, in modern games there are contracts for middleware that's
always got terms and conditions that are specific to a term and
platform. There's voicework and soundtrack work done by people outside
the company, under contract, that again have duration terms and
platform specificity.

If it's a project developed externally (or even components of the game
that were outsourced), often there's royalty considerations for a port
or emulation under a new platform that wasn't envisioned 10+ years ago.


So any
game that has voice. Any game that has externally produced music or
audio design, any game that has any external technology or resources
that were included or produced under contract, has to have a legal and
IP check to see that those rights are still in force. For games that
were designed for retail only (as was the case 5 to 15 years ago, there
is always high chance of not having the right paperwork in place with
those parties.

Now, the question of "can't you just go set up a new contract with
those parties?" comes up. In some cases, yes. In some cases no and in
either case, there's significant costs in doing so.

Will you be bringing Pocket Fighter/Super Gem Fighter to the PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 marketplace?

Sven: I'd call it a long shot.

Are you guys planning on releasing some of your games through GOG.com (Good Old Games)?

Sven: [...] At the moment, nothing happening. But I am keeping in touch
with them. I'm a big fan of their service and I love the CD Projekt
guys. Really great peeps.

Source : http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2010/jan/11/sven-game-rights-older-titles-and-more/



En gros, on aura très très très très peu de chance de voir un jour gem fighters débarquer sur le psn ! mais c'est relou ça !!


Suis-je le seul fan de ce jeu ?

Disons que c'est vraiment pas l'ancien titre estampillé Capcom que j'attends le plus de voir sur le PSN.
Mais ca reste dommage.