Giving a series to another developer is a surefire way of killing it.
With DMC5 coming out pretty good maybe it's time to talk about one of the elephants in the room for Capcom: fighting...
Jace Ramirez
Bentley Wood
>sfv is doing absolutely fine right now.
Entrant numbers keep dropping, the peak for the S4 launch was about 2k less than S3's. It has been on a consistent downwards trend, just started higher than everyone else. Can't even retain 2,000 player average like Tekken does. At best AE sales were around 700k, game can't even cross the 3 million mark when 2 million was the goal of the first 3 months.
>still bigger than sf4 was.
It only just beat out SF4's evo numbers by giving away free t-shirts. The game lost 2,500 entrants in a year and has never recovered from that. SF4 only ever gained entrants. I would actually quite like to see data for other events cause EVO is pretty much the only one that has it dating back to the SF4 days, all we really have is more recent stuff that shows SFV constantly dropping.
>arcade launched today in japan
Which unsurprisingly has the same netcode issues. It also launched with no new special features outside of switching how ranking works. You aren't going to get some amazing surprise, it is Decapre 2.0 at best
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Adrian Powell
trying too hard lmao
Kevin Davis
They should make a fighting games collection to test the water and see which franchises still hold up, or they could make a hyper fighter with Capcom characters only and tell Marvel so go suck dicks. SF6 is already being made at this point, but it will be a next gen game
James Jenkins
That's exactly what they did with IV outsourcing it to Dimps and it ended up being the second biggest selling title in the series.
Owen Cruz
They didnt give it to dimps it was co-developed with dimps
Jaxson Hernandez
I'm right there with you my man, only thing missing is Itsuno