mitchermitcher Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 Not if they buy Street Fighter. And when that happens, it would be bad for most people who play SF. >inb4buyawiiU That's exactly why it'd be bad. Not everyone wants to buy a whole new console just to continue staying in the metagame. Street Fighter will be dead if Nintendo owns it, is my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agro Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 The last Street Fighter game came out on last gen consoles. If they make any new Street Fighter game, they'd release it on a new console, meaning players would have to buy the new console anyway. The series definitely won't die if Nintendo owns it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchermitcher Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 Except it's also available on the PC, and is multi-plat. Become a Nintendo exclusive and that's a lot of the audience gone. Plus I doubt you can get fight sticks to work on the Wii U. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agro Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 You can get fight sticks to work with the Wii U. They'd make sure of that. Seems pretty silly to doubt it.The audience will come play it for Wii U if it's exclusive to Wii U, because it's Street Fighter.Or they'll just keep playing SFIV, because that's still available on anything even after Nintendo would buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchermitcher Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 They'd go to the Wii U if it's exclusive to it, if they can or are willing to afford it. Not everyone likes Nintendo, and certainly not a majority of people who play SF have a Wii U(At the very least, there is no direct correlation to Nintendo other than the 3DS having SFIV, and that particular release was meh from what I heard and it's a handheld). And telling people who aren't willing to buy their console to go play an older game is exactly like when Microsoft E3 last year that told people to stick to the 360 if they don't like Xbone needing to be online all the time. It's in bad taste to leave your fans in the dust to play old shit because the new shit you're making is on a new console most people don't have and isn't from a company said people are invested in. Even if people are willing to play said old shit either way, I don't think it's right, at least. Call me villainizing Nintendo too much if you will, but stealing SF from fighting game players would force people who normally wouldn't even consider touching the Wii U to migrate over just to continue receiving support for a series they love, or stick to old stuff. I understand that people who like Nintendo would obviously be glad to have the number one fighting game franchise in their exclusivity, since that only makes the company they're emotionally(or financially) invested in more successful. Of course you'd be happy, even if you don't really play it or anything(and if you do, even better)(Hell, sony/microsoft/pc fans would lose their assets and of course some would be happy from that, but I'd like to think most of us don't have malicious intent regarding all this) . Likewise as someone who doesn't like Nintendo, and is emotionally invested in fighting games, I'd be happy if SF as a franchise stays multi-plat, because that's more access to it, which means more people can play it(Which as we all know, the growth of SF's fanbase is more or less equal to growth of the fighting game community). Perhaps you're right, and SF won't die when it becomes a Wii U exclusive, but that's another franchise I won't have access to, so I suppose it's natural I'd oppose that either way. I prioritize the FGC, you prioritize Nintendo, there's really no way to see who's right until we find out who buys Capcom, I guess. Long post, but I'd rather settle this in a fairly normal manner instead of having the thread derail into me and the Nintendo fanbase on this site in a war of one-liners and profanity. Sorry for tl;dr, just wanted to get this off. While the whole Capcom thing is pretty new, the Nintendo issue's been on my mind a lot, and I wanted to get some of that off without pissing off people I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tentacruel Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 That's the point. People are invested in Street Fighter. Exclusives sell consoles. If you chose not to play it, it's your choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchermitcher Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 That's the point. People are invested in Street Fighter. Exclusives sell consoles. If you chose not to play it, it's your choice. That's why I'm against it, I don't care for selling more Wii Us, I care for expanding the current SF fanbase. SF becoming Wii U exclusive, even if that event doesn't kill the franchise, it's most likely going to lower the population of the fanbase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonk Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 Personally, I feel that Nintendo should just not worry about Street Fighter. They've already shown that they aren't interested in it. They should just focus on just Megaman, Ace Attorney (and Ghost Trick by extension) and Monster Hunter since those are the franchises of Capcom that they show interest in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tentacruel Posted June 18, 2014 Report Share Posted June 18, 2014 The idea is that the same team that develops it now would continue to develop it. Buying Capcom wouldn't mean just nicking all their IP's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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