By all accounts it's sold disastrously, but Capcom isn't giving up on Street Fighter V anytime soon. It makes sense, of course β while the PlayStation 4 and PC exclusive may have struggled to appeal to the mainstream market, it still has a very committed and dedicated core fanbase. And speaking with Famitsu magazine, producer Yoshinori Ono stressed that the game will be supported through 2020.
"I said in the beginning that we've seen a higher number of [tournament] entrants than we had in the Street Fighter IV era, but we'd like to heighten that even further," he said. "The more people participate, the bigger tournaments we can host, and the more people are going to watch them, which is directly connected with our sales, and that's going to decide the future."
Some kind of Season Two announcement seems inevitable at PSX 2016 next week, then β we just hope that it encompasses more than just characters. We understand that Capcom's coveting the eSports audience here, but Street Fighter V is such a good game that it's practically begging for more single player content so that more can enjoy it.
[source famitsu.com, via eventhubs.com, vg247.com]
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I lived SFV as a scrapper it's an excellent game probably the best I've played in all honesty but the last known of single player content really has killed it, hopefully they will release a few more story's to it over the coming years
@GlynCR Yeah, it's probably the best-worst game I've played in a long time. The actual gameplay loop is top drawer, but there's not enough to do if you don't play multiplayer.
They really need to just completely stuff it with content, 'cos the gameplay's already there.
I went from planning on getting it day one to not getting it at all. It was a real slap in the face to single player fans.
I'm not saying I will never get it but it will have to be dirt cheap.
Thing is will people still be playing it in 2020?
@PlaytendoGuy The tournaments will definitely still be going. They're only getting more popular ATM.
I don't want to sound insulting but whoever thought SFV was going away soon is clearly out of touch with the fighting game community.
It's going to headline evo for 2 or 3 years in spite of newer fighting games coming out.
I am curios to know what Capcom has in mind to bring in more "casual" fans and look forward to Capcom Cup. Some kind of "soft re-launch" of the game is most probably happening at some point...the game is now in a much better state that when it launched.
Also: if you don't like SFV and prefer some other fighting game you shouldn't wish SFV to fail but to change. If SFV failed (it won't) the whole fighting game scene would take severe damage.
SFV is on par with SFII: Championship Edition and Samurai Showdown 2. So it's one of the best fighting games ever made. The only problem was the single player content at release. And you can buy characters with in-game money! Come on this is awesome!
I love it, it's much better than IV and Alpha series.
That said I have a major problem with this game and it's the price of some costumes, it's ridiculous expensive and while it's cosmetic, it's very important in a fighting game.
Sounds about the right length of a fighting game's lifespan, maybe slightly shorter. Whatever Capcom's planning it better be good. This game unfortunately has enough taint as is.
Bought it fairly recently, and I'm absolutely loving it. Easy enough to get into but challenging enough in MP to produce enough salt to keep the world going until 2020.
I must say I'm entirely bored of facing Kens and Ryus in MP though!
I bought this from base.com for 16 quid the other day and it turned up today.
@Snorky Really? Never faced one Ken and only one Ryu.
Now looks like everybody plays as Chun-li -_-
@Frank90 @Snorky Ken players are the plague. J/K of course. I get a lot of Uriens and Mikas as well.
That's a lot of time to squeeze SFV Turbo and all the rest. If the game had more content they could easily "relaunch" the game with DLC included. I wonder if that also made them take a hit.
Just got this today and I'm having fun with it. 2 player co-op with my bro brings back memories. Need to download the patches (terrible internet at my mom's).
This is the game that make me stop preordering digital games, I already delete it from my ps4 but I hope capcom can learn from this and make street fighter 6 feature complete on day 1.
In my mind I was 99% sure I was buying this at launch, even planned to cosplay as Ken. But they fudged the launch so badly and there was so little content.. I still haven't bought it. Waiting on Tekken instead now, they always do a great job. No microtransactions in Tekken either.
I would love to see SFV change to a Overwatch style model where all fighters, stages and modes are free but skins cost FM or real money buying a loot box with random skins in. Maybe win three online fights a day earns a box etc
@PlaytendoGuy they still play Street Fighter 2 Turbo at tournaments SFV has a lot of life left in it
@adf86 it kind of is already, you still have to buy the game and you can buy skins and characters with in game currency - which is a massive grind to get tbf
earning loot boxes for wins is a great idea
@Bliquid that's what they should be doing its hard to earn a decent amount of FM in SFV without grinding like mad
@GlynCR Grinding like mad? The game gives FM for everything. Easy missions, clearing characters prologue, each survival difficulty, story mode, character trials, winning casual matches, winning ranked matches, levelling up characters (doesn't even require winning)...if you play regularly it isn't really difficult to get at all in my experience! Boxes could be a nice idea anyway, but my guess for season 2 is arcade mode as main source of FM and maybe some other rewards (unlocking Akuma? "nostalgic" costumes?). Let's see how they spin this one around...
I gave up on sf5 a long time ago. King of fighters is the game you want to play. 50 fighters and 3 man tag teams, and yes an arcade mode. Yes street fighter 5 has good graffics but that's about it. It has crappy online, crappy roster, and no single player options.
@Feena I got the FM for each story then survival but I never seemed to get that much for anything else I have over 200000 saved up but there was nothing in the ingame store I wanted none of the characters interested me and I'm not fussed about colours or skins
Shoryuken handle it? Rofl
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