'Novelty' of Capcom's fighting HD remakes wearing off

Capcom admits that, regarding its fighting games, "we have been quite prolific in these areas and it's probably time for us to slow down anyway."

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After rapid releases of new fighting game iterations, the genre died down quite a bit in the 2000s. Capcom, having released umpteen Street Fighter games in the 90s, had to wait until the market was more receptive with the release of Street Fighter 4, nearly a decade later.

Apparently, the company hasn't learned its lesson. After releasing Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix, Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike Online Edition, Marvel vs. Capcom Origins, Darkstalkers Resurrection, etc., it appears that interest in HD revivals of fighting classics is waning.

Capcom's Christian Svensson admitted that "we've probably run the course of feasible titles" for any fighting game revivals. Noting a "dropoff" in sales with every game that gets introduced, Svensson said that the "novelty of such projects is wearing off." Speaking on the Capcom-Unity forums (via Siliconera), he admits that "we have been quite prolific in these areas and it's probably time for us to slow down anyway."

While fighting development may have slowed down, Capcom's not done dipping into the HD remaster pool yet. The company's upcoming remake of DuckTales is hotly anticipated, proving that fans of other genres need to be serviced as well.

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    April 8, 2013 4:00 PM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, 'Novelty' of Capcom's fighting HD remakes wearing off.

    Capcom admits that, regarding its fighting games, "we have been quite prolific in these areas and it's probably time for us to slow down anyway."

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      April 8, 2013 4:03 PM

      They don't have much more fighting games to remaster.

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      April 8, 2013 4:15 PM

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      April 8, 2013 4:18 PM

      Maybe they can work on a new Mega Man title :\

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        April 8, 2013 4:26 PM

        they just released a free one called Street Fighter x Megaman if you hadn't heard

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          April 8, 2013 6:06 PM

          Capcom didnt really work on that. It was a fan project.

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        April 8, 2013 10:45 PM

        For the PC, though Steam.


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      April 8, 2013 4:34 PM

      Noooo! They can't give up yet! Not until I have a new Rival Schools!

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      April 8, 2013 5:43 PM

      I'm eagerly awaiting BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma to be released with the story mode. I never got into Street Fighter in the 90's, and it felt like way too many buttons when I got a chance to try SF4. Also, the story modes of Street Fighter, Dead or Alive, and Soul Calibur didn't really click with me, but after playing through story mode of Persona 4 Arena and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend, I like Arc's system a bit better (...well, mainly specific swaths of control schemes for BlazBlue; I'm best with Noel, but all thumbs with specialized characters like Tager, Arakune, or Rachel).

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      April 8, 2013 6:41 PM

      is there a HD remake of Street Fighter 3 3rd Strike yet?

      If not, then its because they aren't remaking the right games!

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      April 8, 2013 6:52 PM

      How big is the market for fighting games? It's always seemed pretty niche to me, but maybe that's because I've never liked them that much. My brain isn't good at remembering the moves and it just gets repetitive after a while.

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        April 8, 2013 10:54 PM

        It's not quite as big as it was around 1992-1994 but fighting games are more popular now than they've been in 15 years. The people who play are extremely dedicated.

        If you really dive into fighter the game play gets really deep. I logged about 500 games in StarCraft 2 and I haven't gone back after I got bit by the fighting game bug.

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      April 8, 2013 7:02 PM

      Logic fail. It's not that the "novelty" has worn of, it's that they did the HD re-releases in order of popularity. SF2 is way more popular than SF3, of course it's going to sell more. SF3 > MvC > Dark Stalkers.

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      April 8, 2013 8:16 PM

      Please stop calling these HD remakes. SF2 had an HD remake. The rest have just been ports with crappy filtering.

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        April 11, 2013 7:15 AM

        Agree 100%. Took a look at the screenshots, and was not impressed.

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      April 8, 2013 8:34 PM

      That's because they didn't add Rogue to MvC. No buy for me >_>

      Good riddance.

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      April 9, 2013 10:17 AM

      Just release the Street Fighter II remake for PC. Don't give a shit about the rest. Get on it now, and leave me an email notifying me of your compliance.

      And fix the shitty Sagat stage music remix from being shitty.

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