Fair enough. Though with those characters you could blame it on "established designs". Not that it would be a good excuse, mind you, since they wouldn't have been the first characters to get a redesign.
Ono isn't in power/has been demoted since more than 2 years ago.
But wasn't he demoted twice? Once two years ago (as you said) following the merger of Dev 3 & Dev 2 and again this past April.
Correct. You don't absorb a division like this (not really a merger), so he was demoted internally before the official date.
Yeah, I clearly remember that was a double whammy for Ono, albeit two years apart.
I'm going to scroll through the VOD. Any idea if it was before or after the State of Play?
Oh I didn't realize I missed a bunch of posts. I'll check it out, thanks!
I don't think many people actually realize that. Even in Smash, Capcom USA is listed separately from Capcom Co. Ltd. due to the former owning Street Fighter. Make no mistake, Japan still makes the games. But Capcom USA definitely has a say (Ex: SFV having a cinematic story mode at all).
Not much, really. He's basically just a mouthpiece now.
Capcom's in a much better financial situation compared to when SFV was in development, so I'd imagine that SFVI will be PS5/XSX/XSS/PC.
Fighting games are extremely expensive to develop, so I'd say that depends on how comfortable they are dropping tons of money into a fighting game that won't do Resident Evil numbers for them. Capcom's financial success came from milking RE and making a Monster Hunter game that they knew would blow up.
Scotia He flat out said the quirky/funny/hypersexual/childishness side of SF4/SFxTk/SFV can largely be attributed to Ono.
But just this on its own...Hadn't gone through the VOD yet, just looking at your post right now.
But if I'm getting it right, Ono's been the main gatekeeper against a earnest Capcom Fighting All-Stars, and he won't greenlight it essentially because he couldn't make Capcom Fighting Evolution work and so considers the whole concept a non-starter.
I guess it's on brand with his terrible decision making =/
Leading it in the sense as any project manager can lead a project. Japanese development teams operate differently than Western teams do, and in JP teams the producers have way more influence than their western counterparts where it's usually the DIrector who's the end-all/be-all of decision making.
To clarify/add context, since we were talking live during Max's speech, it was regarding Max talking to Capcom USA saying they should do X with Y old franchise (like Darkstalkers/etc).
