Poor sales of Western - developed IPs such as (the staggeringly mediocre) Dark Void and Bionic Commando contributed (in part) to Capcom's disastrous 2010 profit slump, and reigning in its outsourced developers is part of an agressive cost cutting plan that includes an accelerated attempt to break into Facebook and
the social gaming marketplace.
The report suggests that the major VR and AR areas that will be generating revenue fall into one of three categories: Content (
gaming, film and TV, health care, education, and
social); hardware and distribution (headsets, input devices like handheld controllers, graphics cards, video capture technologies, and online
marketplaces); and software platforms and delivery services (content creation tools, capture, production, and delivery software, video game engines, analytics, file hosting and compression tools, and B2B and enterprise uses).