Capcom wants to revive all of its legacy fighting games on modern platforms, according to the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection producer Shuhei Matsumoto.
Speaking to IGN at EVO 2024 recently, Matsumoto explained how Capcom is aware of the demand, and hopes making these classic fighters more accessible to new audiences could lead to "bigger and better things" going forward:
"We have a lot of other legacy fighting games that we know fans out there really want them to be re-released again on modern platforms and the feeling is mutual on the development side, we want people to get to know all these other classic games. What we can do right now is try to re-release them and so people who may have never had the chance to play those games get familarised with them and from there hopefully we can go on to bigger and better things."
In a separate question asking about the possibility of re-releasing a game like Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (again), Matsumoto reiterated how the team was "definitely" up for more re-releases:
"We want all our classic [fighting] games to be available for modern consoles because we just want to be able to reach as many people who may have never had the opportunity to play these games back in the day, so we constantly think forward, and we want to make sure that it's as accessible as possible for all audiences."
What legacy fighting games from the Capcom library would you like to see return? Let us know in the comments.
[source youtu.be, via eventhubs.com]
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I’m all for it. I still haven’t played a Star Gladiator/Plasma Sword game.
Can’t believe Nintendo VS Capcom hasn’t happened yet (yeah Smash is a thing but not the same)
I'd like to see SSF2 Turbo HD Remix re-released — that's been languishing in the PS360 generation for well over a decade now. Or is that basically what The Final Challengers was?
Yes please, unfortunately missed almost all of these back in the day and while I'm not the best at fighting games (and to be honest don't want to commit to becoming much better at them considering all the games I'm currently playing and want to play also in other genres) I'd still love to give them a try other than of course being happy for those already fan of them!
@larryisaman That'd be friggin awesome, and I'm not even really a fan of fighting games. 😂
I was thinking like this.
Capcom have their team who is understand how to make Street Fighter style fighting games.
Why haven't they try at least for once, make a Chibi Boxing / Kickboxing game with Super Arts like Street Fighter Alpha / 3rd Strike?
The modern consoles still really lack of proper cartoonish Boxing / Kickboxing games.
At least Konami have tried two times for K-1 Pocket Grand Prix 1 & 2 on GBA.
So Rival Schools has chance then.
I'm still waiting for Power Stone on switch, rumor was this year
While I wouldn't want them to be quite as barebones as Ultra Street Fighter II, more remakes with a high-res lick of paint would be noice.
Something on Xbox as it's missed the new ones. Was looking forward to playing X-Men of atom
@larryisaman Something like that would make an interesting side project for both companies. Make it a $40-50 title with good arcade graphics, the Capcom characters only being from Fighting Games and the Nintendo characters not going past X year/consoles to fit in better. Won't eat into the sales of any current, new, or old releases since it'd be it's own thing.
I mean they're doing good as far as re-releases go. Really weird how more companies don't do it... or they did and it was only digitally on the 360 & PS3 stores. SF6 is fairly well-balanced as far as everyone being viable, so something like a new Darkstalkers or MvC game with the same quality would be awesome.
@Andee they did that for the switch, under the title "Ultra Street Fighter® II: The Final Challengers" - check it out!
I don't mind rereleases, just as long as they don't just give it netcode rollback only and lazily release that. I want training modes and even a quest mode. Soul calibre was always good with that.
Sounds like Street Fighter 4 for Switch to me!
I would like that, but I would like it if they could keep the games faithful to their original. Their first capcom fighting collection removed various scenes of Lilith and Morrigan Aensland from their Darkstalkers releases, which was enough to make me not buy them.
@Anti-Matter It's not boxing but they did release a Chibi fighting game called Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix.
Capcom Fighting Collection Legacy Collection
@NeonPizza Great call!! I particularly miss Power Stone
Not throwing my Saturn out just yet... Street Fighter 4 on Switch would actually be pretty nice. I really enjoy playing SFII The Final Challengers, it's much better that the HD Remix version it was based on which was frustratingly difficult.
Cadillacs&Dinosaurs and Aliens vs Predators. Thank you
@OorWullie
Well, that was only one Chibi fighting game from Capcom and they never make similar Chibi fighting games anymore. 😟
I really hope to see more on Nintendo related consoles (switch/switch 2) third strike was really something else when i first played it.
I just want them to rerelease the MegaMan Legends games and the Dreamcast game Cannon Spike.
Rival schools and the avp beat em up please
The sentiment that all games are meant for everyone to play is sure nice. It’s also not original to these companies. Borrowing the notes of a few decades worth of games preservationists doesn’t make the tone here unassailable. But it’s nice
@NeonPizza I really love ex+alpha but there's almost zero chance of that happening. Have you played "fighting ex layer" on switch, it's by the company who made ex+ with Capcom and it has all their characters in it like Skullomania, D dark, Darun and co. There's even a free (light) version of it on the switch with limited characters and modes but would highly recommend people check it out.
Personally I would instantly buy ultra street fighter 4 if that came to switch. Love that game and still play the 3ds version of it just for some handheld sf4 action even though that version misses a number of the later characters
Rival. Schools. Thanks.
Yes please. give me a chance to play these for the first time.
No arcade-perfect ports, please. No more. I want to play superior versions, not the inferior ones.
Power Stone 1+2
Capcom vs SNK 1+2
Rival Schools / Project Justice
Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha/2/3
Gonna be a real busy final lap on the Switch for Capcom if they want to stick to this...
@Vyacheslav333 that's a frustration of mine as well. I want a real 2P mode, practice, missions, and training. Like Soul Calibur did. On the Dreamcast.
@LikelySatan And World Tour/lite RPG Mode too.
Alpha Anthology please.
Superior to the arcade versions on the 30th Anniversary Collection.
Viewtiful Joe was a fighter game...of types.
Plus, there was Red Hot Rumble, a smash bros esq game.
Dare you Capcom!
Just give some Power Stone, please. That’s all I want (and Gotcha Force, as well).
The Cyberbots revival is nearly upon us!
@SBandy1 yeah, I really appreciated the dip switch options in the collection
Capcom vs SNK 2
It is weird that Street fighter probably gained its early popularity mostly from arcades and the many snes ports of SF 2 but SF 4,5 and 6 have never been on any of Nintendos main consoles.
We got a 3DS port of SF 4 but that was it. What gives? It's like lately Capcom just doesn't give a rats ass about putting their games on Nintendo systems.
On Switch 2 or whatever it's gonna be called they owe us the last 3 Street fighter games and the last 2 resident Evil main games plus the remakes of RE 2, 3 and 4.
Cloud versions don't count either.
Give us the real things or don't bother.
All of them. I’ve never played rival schools and wonder why it’s not been ported at all. Also curious why Street Fighter Alpha 3 upper or alpha 2 gold haven’t been included in any of the collections so far!
Kikaioh (Tech Romancer) was probably my most played Dreamcast game - I’d be over the moon thrilled if Capcom brought it back. The game was an absolute love letter to mecha anime fans, with the great voice-acting, characters representing all the major mecha archetypes, and the creative episodic presentation.
Justice Gakuen (Rival Schools) was similarly fun for fans of school & sports anime. I hope it returns someday, too. I guess I’m just a fan of story-heavy fighting games!
Oh, and PowerStone, too, please! I never played those games back in the day, though friends raved about them.
A friend of mine has informed me that they have proven this isn’t true by skipping Xbox for both the MvC collection and SNK v Capcom
Then in that case bring on these games for us in the future (which to me is next year) Capcom.
i'd like the definitive version of Street Fighter Zero/Alpha 3 that based on the PSP version and Tech Romancer.
@GameOtaku Because last CAPCOM's collections are CPS-II emulators.
@Serpenterror You forgot Vampire Collection (PS2). 😉
Like a lot of people I'd love switch (or switch 2 now even) releases of
That would be lovely thanks
Since we just got SNK Vs Capcom, the next logical step is Capcom Vs SNK 1 and 2, right?
After that, perhaps a Capcom Vs SNK 3?
It would also be neat to see the Power Stone games come back. I didn't own them, so I only got to play them briefly, but the 3D arena fighter setup was interesting.
@Anti-Matter That is, uh, so incredibly specific. I can't help but respect it. Good request.
Capcom is one of the best companies at putting out collections right along with Sega. I definitely want to see more of their retro catalog.
The 2 Capcom vs. SNK games would be nice. Other than I don't know? (maybe Ultra SF IV and SF V - but the latter is probably Sony (console) exclusive)
@GameOtaku This is always my main beef with recollection or re-re-releases. And not just Capcom at all.
There's so many times a game has gotten a new remake or some new form of rerelease that just ignores the three other rereleases/remakes and any new features, fixes or improvements that appeared in between the original release and today.
SquareEnix is a good example of this. They've been doing a great job in recent years of bringing their back cataloge forward in all sorts of interesting ways. However in doing so they've just kind of swept away a ton of games they put out in between. SaGa collection is cool but I imagine we'll never see the 3D remakes again. Same deal with Pixel Remaster; the Wonderswan, PSP, GBA and DS remakes of all those games were also worth preserving but we scrapped it all in favor of raw NES and SNES versions.
Capcom has classic games up the wazoo. But why are we ever releasing vanilla arcade Alpha 3 when, bare minimum, the Dreamcast version exists? Never mind the later versions which, while compromised, do have additional characters. Vampire is in a similar boat. I adore the addition of Vampire Hunter/Savior 2 in that collection but the thing Darkstalker fans would really want , besides a sequel, is a fixed version of For Matching Service or Chaos Tower (Or the PS2 version maybe?) that actually just has all the characters and plays like VS proper.
I dunno. I get that some of those Capcom releases are just arcade ROM collections, so fair dinkum. But when people go to the effort of actually making elaborate collections or new versions they really should be approaching the game as a whole and not just going back to square one. People worked just as hard on those other versions, they have merits of their own and people have nostalgia for them as well.
I'd take the latest Street Fighter mainline games on the Switch 2 as well as the "legacy" games, to be fair. I don't know if that is possible though.
Ultra SF IV though....
I'll take Rival Schools, Project Justice, Power Stone and Power Stone 2, and all of the Street Fighter EX games, either in the form of some kind of Capcom 3D Fighting Collection, or series-specific collections. Also, the home release of Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition. Take my money, Capcom!
ALIEN VS PREDATOR !!!!!!
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom would be nice. It was a great game but also I believe it is singularly locked to the Wii
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars needs to be rescued from being locked on Wii.
Also, Street Fighter III: Third Strike doesn't need another remake/port.
@TheIronChimp Spooky!
@Tevor +++++
@Anti-Matter
i would totally play any manner of new chibi fighting game from Capcom 👍👍
Red Earth 2 when?
And before or after Power Stone 3?
I know I speak on behalf of all the 90s kids when I say this- Hell yeah, we do!
@Vyacheslav333 We already got all the games from the Vampire Collection in the Capcom Fighting Collection.
Power Stone 2 was one of my favourite Dreamcast games.
Not sure how it will have stood the test of time but I'd love to have it on modern console.
I like Capcom's thinking here.
If it paves the way for Plasma Sword, Power Stone and Rival Schools to reach newer consoles, all the more better.
I've noticed that no-one has mentioned Street Fighter X Tekken. A version of that with all the DLC actually available from the go, and not just hidden in the main game code behind a paywall like it originally was, might go some way to apologising for the original release.
Having said that, the likes of Ultra Street Fighter 4 , Tatsunoko vs Capcom and a Capcom vs SNK collection would be my preference please.
yes please. more beat em ups and fighters please. 3rd strike? i will be happy with a version that uses the version used in tournaments but with access to the arrange music found in the dreamcast.
Street fighter alpha 3 double upper/max would be nice along with darkstalker chronicles.
Star gladiator and plasma sword remasters
Arika street fighter ex remasters
@Serpenterror Lol, no. Dee. You forgot about him.
With recent announcement of the Marvel Collection and the good relationship between Capcom and Disney, it brings to mind that they should finally release the Disney Afternoon collection on a Nintendo platform. Just bizarre how these games were originally NES games, and not available yet. Would also like a reimagined Street Fighter anime style game, presented in a similar way as Guilty Gear Strive. Love the smooth animated aesthetic (2.5D cel shaded look). If Capcom were to remake Alpha 3 or build a new Alpha 4 from the ground up, that would be amazing.
I wish they would port USF4 and MVC3U. Really would love those on switch. I keep eying my 360 like it’s gonna die. I don’t expect Tatsunoko but I have two systems to play that on so I am not as bothered.
Basically I am waiting on them to start collecting the 3D games.
That being said I have loved the current switch support.
Though fighting games really aren't for me anymore, I'd gladly play Tatsunoko vs Capcom again. And if Tezuka Productions vs Capcom ever happens (I do have the book from the art exhibit), I'll be the first one in line for that.
I’d like a chance to play the powerstone games the most and as far as beatem ups go the viewtiful joe series would be great. Capcom vs tatsunoko would be nice to.
Hopefully that means something OTHER then SF2 for the umpteenth time.
The first CAPCOM VS. SNK is next for me after the MARVEL collection. I want these all on hard copy for my Switch. Capcom is doing pretty awesome lately; really hitting the fans where they need it. Konami's collections have been decent, now we just need more new stuff!
Why don’t they rather return to releasing their new stuff for Nintendo platforms again? Nintendo didn’t get SF 3, 4, 5 or 6. It’s almost as bad as the Square fallout after the SNES.
@NintendoWife Nintendo 64 couldn’t handle SF3. SF4 came to 3DS. SF5 was a PlayStation console exclusive; not even on XBOX.
@Tempestryke I expect more SFII games to come to NSO at some point.
Only fighting games...? Damn.
What we all want is Dino Crisis and Megaman Legends back. Oh well.
@Bass_X0 I know, but it’s still true that Capcom stopped properly supporting Nintendo with Street Fighter almost 30 years ago. Just like Square with Final Fantasy.
Final fight, that's what I'm interested in, when you look how great Strees of rage 4 turned out. This should be high up on Capcoms list.
On the street front we already have USF2 which is a terrific game and basically have us covered on the sf2 side of things. A proper release of SF3 third strike/alpha 3 is always nice and what most hardcore fans are after.
Now I'd love CVS2 of course but also Power Stone 2 and Tatsunoko vs Capcom. I loved this game so much.
What I really want though is for Capcom to start supporting Nintendo platforms again. Like, multiplatform releases, NEW games for their existing properties, a NEW Power Stone for example. I know Capcom was in big trouble lately and that's part of why they went with exclusive releases and basically putting all their eggs in one basket, but maybe it's part of the problem really. Nintendo exclusives are very safe bets for third parties who can afford them and usually also safe bets in the long run.
@Ristar24 Totally agree. SSFII The Final Challengers is a joy to play in the hardest difficulty level. Really balanced and controls are perfect!
@mlt I have incredibly good memories of Tatsunoko vs Capcom. The roster was great with some faces we don't see around every day. An incredible exclusive for the Wii and since there were no movement controls to adapt when porting, I guess it'd not be such hard work for them. I'm game for that one!
@Tempestryke eh that’s not fair. We have gotten alpha, SF3, the fighting game collection which included darkstalkers and red earth and now the marvel games. As far as their 2D games go, Capcom has been pretty steady with the output.
Edit:apparently this was a misunderstanding as well. Ima leave folks alone for a while.
@NintendoWife SF3 is on Switch (30th anniversary collection). 4 was on 3ds, 5 is Sony funded and switch can’t run 6. Thanks to the collections, Nintendo has caught up with the 2D games.
Edit: apparently I misunderstood the intent of the comment I responded to but will leave this up for information purposes.
@Ryu_Niiyama I knew you were going to say that. But come on, you know what I mean. A new Street Fighter is an event, kinda like a new GTA. Or a new Final Fantasy. And Capcom have excluded Nintendo systems since the mid 90s. Retro collections are ok, but they always stop at SF3. Aka anything short of making an effort beyond straight emulation. With SF4 on DS they dipped a toe into the water, just like Rockstar did with GTA: Chinatown Wars, and it didn't work out, evidently, cause neither bothered to do it again. Square releases the odd Chocobo Dance Dungeon Safari 6, but who cares.
The whole story is well documented, even on this site: Nintendo lost much the big 3rd parties due to the N64 cartridge manufacturing costs & risks. As a result they were given the cold shoulder for several generations, and I've long moved on - if 3rd parties don't wanna serve us, I got enough 1st party games to play, if I'm honest. Spare time is limited at my age.
@NintendoWife my apologies. I responded based on what you said in your initial comment. I made no inference or assumption beyond that.
@Overzeal The MT framework lack of support on modern xboxes is likely why the capcom games did not go to xbox. As for SVC that is probably a demographics call (they didn’t think it would sell) as that is an SNK game and not reliant on MT framework. You will notice the MT framework games only release on PS4 (for the same reason) and not PS5.
@Ryu_Niiyama All good I'm just a bit frustrated that series I fondly remember from my childhood have disappeared from Nintendo systems. But it's been so long now.
Darkstalkers revival pls
What they should do as a thank you to the fans is go back and add rollback netcode to the 30th Anniversary Collection and add online play for Alpha 2. I know if won't happen but it is terrible that they didn't do that in the first place.
@NintendoWife
I completely agree with you. Even with the wii there was an exclusive fighter, an exclusive monster hunter and an excellent version of RE4, arguably the best.
Capcom's support has wavered and SF in particular stings because as you've said it's a symbol. The thing is, the SF brand is not even associated with ninty anymore apart from SF2 in people's mind but only for those who know their vg history facts. So yeah SF might be a lost cause to be honest but I would like for them to make an effort in Nintendo's direction next gen at least.
Capcom fighting games I’d like to see a new release of on Switch:
... to name a few. Please oblige us Captain Commando com.
Yeap capcom have got a lot of fighters and it would be great to see them again
Powerstone 1/2 and Capcom Vs SNK 1/2 please
@Ryu_Niiyama I know, I was being facetious.
@Tempestryke Oh sorry. Apparently I am misunderstanding everyone today. (See that’s why I try not to tag people. Saves me from all the woosh moments.)
@Ryu_Niiyama it can be hard to tell tone sometimes over text. I probably should have put a silly or wink face next to my statement
Id love it, but no rom dumps please. We have so many straight rom dumps with netcode already.(see capcom fighting collection among many others)
If they are going to do it, do it with love. Wide screen, hd, updated campaign, remixed music, etc...
Id happily shell out for a large number of titles if they got the ssf2 remix treatment.
@Vyacheslav333 today's Direct is about to make you really happy, I think. SFA3 Upper, and the home ports of CVS1 and 2. I won't spoil any more but this is the dream.
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