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Otter on 02 February 2020
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animegaming said:
Otter said:

Only 152m in their bank account and they can't afford to make Street Fighter V? Lol, I'm sorry but this is nonsense. Street Fighter is literally the safest title they released the whole gen sans Monster Hunter. They could absolutely finance it, its not some crazy AAA new IP which cost 60m and 4 years of production. Especially over whatever else was in the pipeline which was seemingly console exclusive (Dead Rising-MS), Deep Down (Sony).

They were playing it safe, which is not a crime but lets not say they couldn't afford to make SFV

You do realize that a company that has thousands of employees from all over the world, only having 152 million dollars is kind dire?

Hell the launch state of SFV is kind of proof that the game must have had a pretty low budget due to Capcom's financial state at the time.

Also why do you think early in this gen they kept made mostly exclusives and remasters? Because with a 152 million dollars that can only make at most a few AAA games, they had to take some paychecks from MS and Sony to make some actual new games.

You haven't countered my point.

And to contextualise everything, capcom would have made around 40m-60m in the first 2 days of Monster Hunter 4's Ultimate's release, assuming they pocket 30-50% of its retail value. Again, Its not to say Capcom was in a great Financial situation, its to say they could absolutely finance Street Fighter V by themselves. whereas you are saying they literally couldn't afford its production cost.