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Otter on 02 February 2020
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Alcyon said:
Otter said:

"I don't have R&D budget and staff."

He further explained that his team is now focused entirely on Ultra Street Fighter IV, which was announced at EVO this weekend.

Its enough to explain that Capcom did not provide him the budget or Staff to work on SFV whilst simultaniously producing SFIV Ultimate. 

So theye didn't had the money for SFV. The whole point of the current discussion.

"its to say they could absolutely finance Street Fighter V by themselves. whereas you are saying they literally couldn't afford its production cost. "

Ono litteraly says "we cannot". So, now, you will say that even the ones working in Capcom don't have a clue?

Capcom not allocating money for SFV in summer 2013 is not the same as Capcom not being able to afford to produce SFV without sony. A team not being allocated budget =/= a publisher being out of money.

Allocations of resources are freed up as other games are finished or cancelled. Street Fighter VI Ultimate, Dead Rising 3, Dragons Dogma Dark Arisen, Monster Hunter G, Monster Hunter 4, Dragon Ball Heroes, Sonic Lost World, Freedom Wars  are just some of the games finished by Capcom or Dimps, the developer who supported them on SFV in the period around 2013.

Add on top, the fact that lots of RD was going towards their custom engine Panta Rhei which was supposed to be the basis of their next gen games. When SFV was eventually announced it was using UE4, whereas IV used an inhouse engine.  

So again, his statement confirms only that he was not allocated budget or resources to make SFV in summer in 2013.