Was this because of that thing, the shareholders recently voting to disallow countermeasures to large scale share purchase by an entity? What interests me about this is that what it might be able to tell me about the way the video game industry (or businesses that go public in general?) work. You have to wonder what the internal consensus at Capcom was in response to the shareholder action. It sort of astonishes me that a game company works like this, allowing a major decision that might change the company to be made by shareholders. But I guess that's how votes work and this can't be the first business to go through major changes in responses to shareholder actions. Such an alien operation to me.
Anyway, I don't think another game company will buy majority share if the buyout happens. IIRC they don't have the largest money reserves, but a decent amount. Sega will not make a move here, anyway.
The whole Yoshinori Ono thing, from what I understand, is just him being done with overseeing work on Dead Rising 3 or something and helping to set up shop Capcom Vancouver. Some people think that Capcom Canada is gonna get trashed, I don't know. However, if Yoshinori Ono leaves and/or Deep Down fails, I feel like company is one step away from "abandon ship." They may have Takumi (Ace Attorney) and Itsuno (Dragon's Dogma, Devil May Cry 4) and whoever does Monster Hunter, but another misfire is going to put the place in panic.
