Capcom is a Japanese video game developer and publisher known for its fighting games, including Street Fighter, Marvel vs. Capcom, Mega Man, and Monster Hunter.
Its flagship series is the Street Fighter franchise, which has had a total of 49 main titles and six crossover titles, as of April 2015. Its best-selling Street Fighter title remains the third-generation Street Fighter IV.
Capcom has also published a number of fighting games in collaboration with other companies, including SNK for the Neo Geo arcade system and SNK Playmore for the PlayStation and Neo Geo Pocket handheld systems.
Capcom has also published numerous fighting games for a number of other platforms and systems. It first entered the handheld market in 2003 with the release of the Neo Geo Pocket.
Capcom has also released games for a variety of other platforms, including the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Dreamcast, Game Boy Advance, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Switch. Capcom is also one of the first third-party developers to release console ports of games for the PlayStation 4, a trend that has since become a commonplace occurrence.
Capcom has been involved in the popularization of fighting games, having been a key component in the SNK vs. Capcom series of fighting games in 1994. The following year, Capcom released the Street Fighter Alpha series, which, when in its native.
Capcom is a subsidiary of Japanese company Asmik Ace Entertainment, and was founded by Kazuo Asano and Toru Eiki. Street Fighter, its flagship series, has been credited with popularizing fighting games as a genre, with each generation of Street Fighter offering more complex and playable gameplay than its predecessors, often featuring a returning cast of characters, though still retaining the core fighting gameplay from previous games in the series.
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