To those who say "SEGA"...
What is it that SEGA has done in recent years that has made everyone jump up and suggest they buy Capcom?
If anything, SEGA have been just as bad, or even worse than Capcom this last generation, when handling their IP's. And they're STILL making 3D Sonic titles. They're primarily just a publisher nowadays anyway. Meh.
No. Not SEGA.
If anything, I'd be more inclined to say that Namco Bandai were a better fit. After all, they lurve the microtransactional shit. Like two peas in a pod. Having said that, their shared love for said bullshit didn't exactly help SFxTKN sell, did it?
Ideally, we'd all love Capcom to go to a strong, Japanese games dev company... but how many of them really exist right now? I mean, Nintendo... really? Sure, they fit the criteria, however, they can't even reinvigorate their own classic franchises properly, let alone, take on board a whole new catalogue. If Nintendo took Capcom on, chances are, it'd all be outsourced to other developers anyway.
Selfishly, I sort of stopped caring about Capcom after the arrival of the last/7th generation anyway. I was left pretty underwhelmed by DMC4, SF4 and RE5... enough to distance myself from them tbh. On the flip side, I thought (8ing's) Tatsunoko vs Capcom was excellent though. A real flash of some old Capcom brilliance there imo. Didn't care for MvC3 though...