Former Sega marketer and current Capcom VP, Charles Bellfield pulls no punches in a recent GameDaily interview. With Clover Studios (God Hand, Okami) recent closing, Bellfield talks about what that means for Capcom and what exactly the subsidiary was. He points out that it was "physically a floor in our sixteen-story R&D building in Osaka in Japan. It was identical to the other fifteen floors that were in the same building..." Moreover, the majority of the team has been transitioning from Clover to Capcom for months. Continuing, Bellfield adds:

Does it change the type of content we develop? Not in the slightest chance. Does it change the company at all? Nope. Have a couple of individuals left? Yes... Mikami-san (Resident Evil creator) is still a contracted producer at Capcom, so he's very much part of the team, part of the family just as other producers are... Both Inaba-san (Viewtiful Joe producer) and Kamiya-san have left the company.

He adds that that And Bellfield not only attempts to clarify the Clover situation, but kicks sand in Sega's face for bonus points! When asked for comparisons between his current employer and his previous one, Bellfield dishes:

Capcom's not going to do anything that will cheapen itself in the eyes of the gamer, and we'll only do things to add credibility to who we are as a company. We are not in the market to cheapen ourselves or deliver below par content to our consumers.

This Bellfield guy is a regular barrel of monkeys! Brian Ashcraft

Chatty Charles [GameDaily]

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