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naruball said:
DirtyP2002 said:
LoL @ SF was funded, but Tomb Raider money hatted.
Gotta love double standards.

OT: niche Japanese games that probably sell something like 200k worldwide outside Japan.

More like, gotta love misinformation. Capcom has not beeng doing well financially in quite a while and their financial troubles are very much public. There were even reports about the company facing a hostile takeover.

But yeah, sure, let's call it double standards and ignore the facts, because Sony.

its really funny how missinformed some people are, that or they are trying to forget the past... the news about Capcoms Financial troubles were very public and it was a topic debated by a lot of people just to post some videos about the topic:

 

 

Also just to be clear, SFV would have happened eventually but it would have taken years for Capcom to get the money to get the game going, so Sony partnering with them made the production of the game possible now, instead of waiting till 2018 for the announcement of SFV.

Also here is an article that proves that Capcom wanted to make SFV but didnt had the money to make it at the time (2013 when they were having financial problems): http://www.usgamer.net/articles/street-fighter-producer-doesnt-want-series-to-end-with-iv