Theorizing over potential and actual acquisition offers stays prime of thoughts within the video games business, thanks in no small half to Microsoft’s pending buyout of Activision Blizzard. It’s simple to neglect that not each massive gaming writer is seeking to get acquired within the first place. Capcom, for one, just lately famous that its lively technique is to stay impartial, despite the fact that it’s open to extra collaborative tasks ought to the chance come up.

In a Bloomberg interview with Capcom, COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto defined: “I’d gracefully decline the [acquisition] provide as a result of I imagine it will be higher if we had been equal companions.”

Although Bloomberg’s query posed reference to turning away Microsoft, particularly, it’s curious that Tsujimoto didn’t essentially single out the tech big. As a substitute, the COO spoke broadly in his commentary. In different phrases, a Sony acquisition is equally out of the image from the seems to be of it.

As some of the standard and broadly acclaimed gaming firms within the business proper now, Capcom enjoys a place of status in most respects. With Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, and Avenue Fighter franchises in tow – simply to listing just a few – Capcom has been using a excessive for years now. The corporate’s success doesn’t appear prone to wane anytime quickly, both, with titles comparable to Dragon’s Dogma 2 already on the horizon.

If there’s any main writer poised to inform Microsoft no, then, Capcom is seemingly the one. Maybe that’s excellent news for followers of Capcom’s output over the past a number of years. The corporate was capable of not solely discover its footing but additionally maintained high quality output over quite a few releases. Having an umbrella third occasion meddling in issues might dampen that success indirectly, form, or kind. And from Tsujimoto’s feedback, it appears he feels the identical approach, too.