According to the Japanese newspaper Sports Nippon (via EventHubs), Capcom executives revealed that Street Fighter 5 is in the pre-production phase during an E3 2014 interview. Their report states that Capcom President and COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto said that the game would include a “pay-for-advantage” model that would enable inexperienced players to compete with expert level fighting game fanatics. A Spectator Mode is also planned and Tsujimoto announced that the game will likely be developed for the PS4 and Xbox One.
As you can imagine, fighting game fans went into a rage over the “pay-for-advantage” announcement and Street Fighter Series Producer Yoshinori Ono took to Twitter to clarify that such a gameplay system is not being considered:
The SFV news today about a pay to win model is not accurate and isn't something we're planning for.
— Yoshinori Ono (@Yoshi_OnoChin) June 11, 2014
Sorry for the confusion! We're still in early planning stages and will
share more at a later date.
— Yoshinori Ono (@Yoshi_OnoChin) June 11, 2014
So that’s one crisis averted and Ono himself confirmed that Street Fighter 5 is in development. That’s all well and good, but the game is probably more than two years away at best.
