This story has been badly taken out of context. Someone has looked at a single figure, for one year, pretended that it represented Capcom's entire resources, and added a comment from Capcom saying that they wanted to concentrate more on DLC, and presented it as a story about Capcom being in trouble.
Let's contextualise:
­ this is the second highest amount of cash Capcom have had in the bank at th end of any reporting year since 2003
­ Capcom have had negative balances of about the same amount. The idea that Capcom run out of resources if they hit zero is totally ludicrous
­ Checking cash and cash equivalents (and please note: this is a figure that is clearly visible in Capcom's financials, unavoidable by anyone making any serious study of it) shows that it's a figure that's been fairly stable for the past decade
­ Capcom's sales are up
­ Capcom's net income is down slightly but they're profitable and have been consistently profitable since 2005
To help make the scale of this scare story clear, I put a few figures from Capcom's reports into a spreadsheet and graphed them over time. You can see
them here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... IRXc#gid=0
Figures are in millions of Yen and are from Capcom's 11 year summary of annual reports, here:
http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data ... 013_03.pdf