The story of video game development is usually one of compromise. Whether due to technical constraints, time constraints, budget, or a combination of the three.
Sometimes, however, proprietary games come out of an environment where these restrictions are removed, and that seems to be what the Street Fighter 6 development team had to fight for behind the scenes.
Detective game They recently released their Street Fighter 6 cover story online, detailing a bit how Capcom management had to be pushed back and convinced their vision for the game was worth it.
This basically boils down to the core idea behind SF6 to create something that captures the essence of what drew people to the genre in the first place.
“The concept I got from Nakayama-san is that we wanted to bring it back to roughly how it was during the Street Fighter II era,” producer Kazuhiro Tsuchiya said via Game Informer. “We wanted to make another Street Fighter game that is not just for existing fans of the series, but for everyone and get the same feeling where all kinds of gamers fall in love with fighting games… with Street Fighter. When this concept was brought up by Nakayama-san, it resonated very strongly with me. It’s a challenge, but one worth taking on.”
Although they came in following Street Fighter 5 to take on lead developer roles, director Takayuki Nakayama and producer Shuhei Matsumoto along with their relatively less experienced team don’t yet have the seniority or authority to make big executive decisions themselves.
Yoshinori Ono is no longer around to captain the ship, but that’s clearly where Tsuchiya, who’s also been at Capcom for over 30 years, steps in to be the voice in their corner when confronting those responsible for the company.
“It took us time to get some people — the decision makers — outside the team to explain why these new features are important,” said Nakayama. “We are trying to achieve a lot more compared to other fighting games, but we want Street Fighter 6 to be important and perhaps a gateway for a lot of people to be involved and excited regarding a fighting match.”
Those with their boots on the ground certainly want to do everything they can to avoid the disaster of Street Fighter 5’s launch, but it’s also easy to see why Capcom is so reluctant to give them everything they ask for.
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Hell, they recently revealed that SF5 was originally planned for 6 seasons of DLC before being scaled back to 4 – then greenlighted for a fifth season following the success of the Champion Edition.
Meanwhile, their other big properties like Resident Evil and Monster Hunter are earning Capcom more money than ever with Street Fighter being the game catching up.
Fortunately for everyone, it looks like we won’t really hear regarding management’s involvement in this particular project.
“It is very rare for matches to pay off as they were able to deliver everything the team aspired to,” said Tsuchiya. “There is always some kind of compromise that needs to be made or ideas that should have been scrapped because of budget, schedule and resource issues. But at this time, in terms of the basic things that Nakayama-san wanted to accomplish with his dream project, it seems like we didn’t really have to make any kind of omissions or compromises for this title.”
We’ve seen the team take new steps with the franchise such as giving players the ability to create custom avatars to roam and interact with the all-new Battle Hub as well as the largest chunk of single-player content Street Fighter has already seen with the SF6 World Tour.
Game Informer makes it sound like Capcom’s leadership is behind their entire fighting game team now, and perhaps all the positive attention SF6 has received so far will help dispel any remaining doubts.
Whether or not Street Fighter 6 will end up achieving its goal of revitalizing the series and potentially taking it to new heights remains to be seen.
But it’s nice to know that there’s a group of people building SF6 that really care regarding what Street Fighter is all regarding and why it’s important to do it right.
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