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darkknightkryta on 10 December 2014
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Soundwave said:
darkknightkryta said:

I still actually have the EGM laying around. 

They announced Street Fighter II Champion Edition for Genesis first. Sega made a big fuss about it, it was a big "exclusivity" deal. This was the big "megaton" of its day.

Then like a month later Capcom 'quietly' announced Street Fighter II Turbo for SNES, which did actually end up coming out before the Genesis version (though the release dates were fairly close IIRC). 

Scans of EGM?  Or was it just "journalists" running their mouths off?  Though back on topic, and as I mentioned earlier, Capcom didn't have the funds for Street Fighter 5, Sony did.  Capcom had the funds for 10 different ports of Street Fighter 2.  Square Enix has the funds for PS4 version of Tomb Raider, Microsoft paid for it NOT to go to the PS4.  Street Fighter 5 is as likely to go to the Xbox One as Bayonetta 2 is.


I'd have to go into my attic and open up a ton of old dusty boxes, maybe some other time. This is the magazine ad for it though, this ad ran in magazines of the day, I remember this:

Note the "Only On Genesis" part. 

I don't really buy that Capcom didn't have the funds for SFV either. SFIV sold so many copies that they're still making iterations of SFIV, lol. It's a 7 million+ seller. If they don't have money for that I doubt they have money to make anything. This is not like Bayonetta, SFIV sold like several times to amount of Bayonetta. 

How many games sell 8 million copies and can't get financing for a sequel? 

That technically isn't a lie though.  Genesis was the only game to have Champion Edition.  It was Hyper on SNES, but there were some other differences between the two titles.  Like, if I recall the SNES version correctly, it was vanilla with the boss characters added, and the turbo select/tweaks.  The Champion Edition was technically a port of both arcade titles: Champion Edition and Hyper Edition.  I think you can't do air hurricane kicks in the Champion version but you could in Hyper.

I don't think you realize how dire Capcom is for money.  Resident Evil 6 is their 3rd highest selling title ever.  It lost them money...