Street Fighter's Producer Yoshinori Ono Is Leaving Capcom After Almost 30 Years

Well, no Street Fighter VI in the future.
But anyway, Capcom must create another fighting games with different titles.
Maybe revive Boxing / Kickboxing genre, make it like K-1 on PS2 and it will be fine.

This sucks I’ll never get a chance to have him to autograph any more capcom stuff ever again

I’ve had him autograph several posters but I’ve always forgotten to bring any blanka stuff ughhh

woah i just shed a tear

Good for him.
I think people need to step away from their work after a long period of time. Get some fresh ideas out there.

It's sad to see the 1st real generation of game developers step away but they've earned a happy retirement for years of giving us great games to play.

Loved playing SF2 with my mates on the SNES back in the day. Missed SF3 first time round. SF4 was brilliant and only got better through its life, and SF5 has become a worthy successor. Great run of games for fighting game fans.

I remember spending hours and hours on SNES street fighter II and then turbo, and later on the 3DO. Just when I thought I was done with street fighter, number IV hit the 3DS and again I spent hours and hours on it.

Super appreciative of all legacy street fighter team members for making such an influential game

My personal favorite SF game is SFIII 3rd Strike. I loved the characters and movesets in that one.

@Anti-Matter
Yoshinori Ono clearly said the Street Fighter brand will continue. He just won't be a part of it any longer.

Thank you for giving my generation a great arcade experience!

Wow I remember playing Street Fighter and Street Fighter 2 (Original build) in the arcades as a child, and loving the limited Characters we had.
Never played 3, Alpha, or its variants but I did try 4 and 5 and seeing the evolution of the series was joyful.
Sadly, everything must come to an end someday and his parting with Capcom comes after 30 long years! So good luck to Mr Ono on whatever he does next, and I'd like to see where Street Fighter goes next without him helming the series

Thank you for everything and the great & leading service to our industry

A massive massive thank you. All the best

Thank you sir many happy street fighter 2 memories xxx

The Street Fighter III art style will never be bettered.

Street Fighter II is the first game I remember playing; it was in a place down the street from where we rented movies. It wasn't an arcade (I don't remember what it was), but it had a SFII cabinet right next to the door. When I got a Genesis, SFII was the second game I played (after Sonic 2). I played it with my cousins and friends all the time.

Thank you, Yoshinori Ono, for all the great memories.

Wonder how Capcom will handle the franchise. Street Fighter V's exclusivity and the condition of the game when it came out hurt the franchise a lot. But, I loved Ultra Street Fighter II, the best version of the game available. Guess he'll end up making a SF style game.

Those rumors about Ono being demoted from SF6 as director seem that they can be taken with less grains of salt now.

@Anti-Matter - SF6 is in development but rumors are that Ono was demoted from his position in the franchise because it had a tag team feature that wasn’t getting good feedback from the testers.

Holy crap

Did not expect this at all. I feel Ono leaving marks the end of an entire era of not just Capcom fighting games, but the fighting game genre as a whole. He left quite the mark on Street Fighter and Capcom Vs. All the best to him.

@Edu23XWiiU Well SFV's console exclusivity to PS4 was partially understandable because Sony themselves stepped in to fund a sizable amount of the game's development in the first place, but I do agree it did limit its audience. I can see SFVI being multiplatform but only being developed for next-gen systems (PS5, Series X and PC), as it's usually tradition for a new numbered mainline installment of the franchise to be developed for each console generation. I also totally expect it to follow the seasons-model of SFV but with a larger initial roster of characters in response to the criticism directed towards how barebones vanilla SFV was at launch

In regards to Switch, I can see more legacy Capcom fighters like Darkstalkers or even Marvel/Tatsunoko vs. Capcom getting ported but I can't see them developing SFVI or any next-gen fighters for it tbh

@TheFrenchiestFry The fact that SF V was released incomplete hurt even worse. That game can work fine on the Switch, the same way as any future installment. As for Tatsunoko Vs Capcom, that game should get a sequel, since the original was developed with the Wii in mind, and was done in a way that could not be ported to other consoles. I loved that game. I still play it to this day.

Quite sad, miss his trolling.

Hope him all the best.

@Anti-Matter He clearly said in the tweet that he was putting the future of Street Fighter in the hands of younger developers. They're not just going to stop making SF games. SF is probably Capcom's most well known franchise by far

@Edu23XWiiU SFV could work on Switch, but Sony basically funding part of the game's development means it's never coming to another platform outside PC

In terms of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom I think that game could use either a remaster with cleaned up visuals or potentially a sequel. I do hope they keep the cel-shaded artstyle though because it made that game one of the best looking Wii titles by far

@Tasuki Honestly I wholeheartedly welcome the hiring of new and fresh blood to take control of the series. It worked really well for both Mega Man and Resident Evil

@TheFrenchiestFry Yeah, that's a damn shame. Hopefully next entry will be multiplatform. Yeah, graphics are really good in Tatsunoko Vs Capcom, the art style hit the nail. I think because of licensing issues, it was a "once in a lifetime case" with that game. Too bad. For me, it's the best game in the Vs series.

about time! its know in the fighting community hes been the trouble maker

@Anti-Matter just because hes gone does not mean street fighter will not continue

According to rumors, Ono massively screwed up the development of Street Fighter VI. This may be the result of that.

Every now and then, you've got to let the new folks takeover. There will be a Street Fighter 6. Hopefully, it takes the series in a positive direction. I prefer 4 over 5.

As much as we're going to miss the guy, let's face it every Street Fighter game that he's involved with almost never came out for Nintendo's platform and he had teased time and time again for Nintendo fans to just port beg for one even though he always came to the we had no plans to release anything conclusion. For the few games he did brought over it was good while it last. Hopefully Capcom evolve Street Fighter VI even better for next gen as Street Fighter V while good had a rough launch and delivery history.

You guys should look up his history and work before saying anything, Ono started producing at Capcom with Fighting Jam, before that he was just sound manager, then later he did good work with IV, but from there it was downhill, everything wrong with Capcom fighting department came from him, bad decisions, cancelling games, making SFV the way it was, he did not contribute positively to the series since IV, do you know why there isn't a new darkstalkers game? Or a Capcom all star? It is all on him, finally, some sources claim he was making SFVI and it was in direction of being a disaster just like V, that looks like it was the final nail in the coffin for him.

@Anti-Matter Capcom would be stupid to toss aside one of their biggest ips just cause of one dude. Thats not going to stop them from making street fighter games.

He hit it out of the park with SFIV.

It's sad to see these Elder Statesmen of gaming go but they have worked long and hard and deserve to walk away into that sunset. As much as I want all of them to stay and keep making classics I'm also thrilled to see a new generation come in and show us what they've got.

Ono was with health problems, so was expected.
The rumors not makes sense.
And he was not that decisive in the development of those games.

He will be missed, thanks for the memories.

Thanks for everything, Ono! Hopefully SF is in good hands moving forward.

My favourite’s 3rd Strike, without a doubt. Everything from graphics to cast is incredible and the soundtrack is one of the best of any game out there.

@w00dm4n I feel like that has a lot to do with why I feel like a lot of developers just aren't as good as they used to be. All he passionate pioneers of the industry have moved on elsewhere or retired it seems, and now we just got a new crowd of developers running things. Seems like the passion just isn't there anymore like it used to be, everything is bigger and more corporate. We have truly been experiencing the end of an era.

Street Fighter II: The World Warriors was the first and only game which I ever stood in a queue for in order to play. (And it was a cabinet with just three buttons at the time.) Eventually I was to become so obsessed and so good at it that the older kids at the arcade had to physically bully me (blow cigarette smoke in my eyes, lift me up by arms and legs and pull me away from the cabinet etc) in order to ever beat me.

I tried to recapture the magic of those days by buying SFIV and even SFV on consoles but I just couldn't get into it at all. I even bought an expensive arcade stick. The excitement died before it began. It seems there was a time and a place for 1 on 1 fighting games. For me it was the early-mid 90s in the arcades.

Happy retirement Mr Ono. Thank you for the magical memories.

@Tasuki I always felt that the Alpha games were the true sequels to the Street Fighter II series, even if they were marketed as interquels that took place between Street Fighter and Street Fighter II.

They ran on the same arcade hardware that the Street Fighter II games ran on, eventually, all the Street Fighter II characters made a comeback in the Alpha games along with fighters from Final Fight and Street Fighter I, and the gameplay felt like a proper evolution of the idea that Street Fighter II did, without coming off as weird.

Plus, the Alpha games just play much better then Street Fighter III, and there are cool things from those games that I wish would come back in modern Street Fighter games.

For me personally, I think the Street Fighter Alpha games are the best Street Fighter games ever made.