Capcom, a famous Japanese gaming company, will launch a Facebook game

Capcom, a Japanese gaming publisher, who developed the "biochemical Crisis" and "Street Fighter" series, said it plans to launch its first game against 400 million Facebook users in the current fiscal year, Bloomberg reported May 12. "Social networking games will have an impact on the traditional video gaming industry, a phenomenon that cannot be ignored," Capcom's president, Haruhiro Tsujimoto, said in an interview in Tokyo on the same day. We must act. ThinkEquity, a market-research firm, reckons the social-networking gaming market will reach $2 billion trillion by 2012.　　Capcom hopes to follow the art of using the popularity of Facebook and News Corp's MySpace games. Eiji Maeda, an analyst at JPMorgan Chase, says the social-gaming market, once seen as a low-margin, Low-cost gaming kingdom, is becoming an attractive market for big publishers.　　He Capcom stock as overweight. Social networking games are free, and game developers earn their money mainly by selling virtual equipment for upgrades.　　Facebook's biggest gaming operator, Zynga Gaming network, is expected to get a record of $450 million trillion in sales of virtual equipment this year, sources said last month. Haruhiro Tsujimoto said: "Their business model is basically a network service, the game is to allow users to become a community, the future of computer games and online games will be two points world." "Capcom, based in Osaka, predicted earlier this month that revenues from online services, including Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 downloadable content, would increase 10% to 11 billion yen (about 119 million U.S. dollars) in the fiscal year ending in late March, accounting for 12 of the company's total revenue %。　　He said it was not expected to include the forthcoming game gains. On the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tuesday, Capcom Company's shares fell 3.4%, closing at 1736 yen/share. The stock has risen 13% this year, down 23% in 2009. (Edit/Zhang Lei)