Even with the disappointing sales of Street Fighter V between April and December of last year, Capcom still plans on supporting it for years to come, Capcom Europe COO Stuart Turner has revealed.
Speaking with Games Industry, Turner admitted that the Street Fighter V launch wasn’t great, but they’ve taken steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again:
I still believe the service game model is absolutely the thing for Street Fighter. It was always going to be a huge challenge to take a well loved brand from a traditional boxed product to a service game business model. The way a game like that is produced, developed, tested and marketed are all hugely different to a traditional boxed game.
I don’t think it would be wrong to say that we didn’t get much right with Street Fighter V at launch, we’ve learnt and put things in place that will avoid such issues ever arising in the future. Getting an offering that’s right for consumers first should be always be our priority. Turner continued by saying Street Fighter V is “hitting its stride,” and “there are seasons of content to come and we still have support plans for the title for many more years.” He concluded, “After a difficult start Street Fighter V is in a very good place now.”
Capcom is currently working on Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite, which is scheduled for release later this year on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. According to Turner, its broad...