Are Capcom even going to Evo Japan?
Capcom turns 35 years old in 2019 (and Final Fight 30) and is pushing eSports through SFV specially in Japan, SFV is releasing its arcade version a few weeks after it, turns 3 years old during the event, the game wouldn't have received a new character in like 2 months, still have to reveal S4 stuff and has the biggest participation in the event doubling the one of the 2d game (Tekken 7):
https://evo.challonge.com/es/events/evojapan2019/tournaments
Not sure if they go, but there are many reasons to think they may be there and/or in the grand finals of their own Japanese Street Fighter League (I think they will be in early/mid March).
With Type Arcade in March suddenly the weird silence makes a lot more sense because they're effectively relaunching the game in Japan and are focused on that.
I'm guessing EVO Japan has a character, and one will follow in March for the Type Arcade launch.
Yep, but maybe they have been silent these weeks just because the team has been busy working on the arcade version release.
No original Vampire, no version select, no dip switches to fiddle with each patch, and no Dee, though. We need the PS2 version for preservation purposes (Also, Hunter2 Arrange had some interesting modifications for giggles).
Ideally, it should be a collection of all the collections, with all the stuff from the PS2 version, plus the Chaos Tower and the stupid "what if" versions from the Matching Service version.
But with our luck it's just going to be "Savior1 with online and some ugly filters".
I'd rather have a new game mixing all characters (including secret ones and special from console versions) featuring all their versions in a Hyper SF2 way, all the stages and arcade endings from all games with SFV-like paths in addition to all the extra modes and EX options/dip switches that only specific versions/ports from the different (Japanese) games had: Vampire, Vampire Hunter, Vampire Hunter 2, Vampire Savior, Vampire Savior 2, Vampire Chronicle: The Chaos Tower.
Add on top an insane gallery with all the artwork from all games, trophies, some new game modes from SFA3 like Survival or Time Attack and a proper online, that having a single game would be easier to handle and concentrate the userbase (make it multiplatform publishing it everywhere and with total crossplay) instead of spreading it through the different games of the compilation and keeping some of them without online or split their online per platform.
Was he even there last year?
Last year Evo Japan was in January, only a month after Capcom Cup where they announced all the Season 3 characters and like a couple of weeks after SFVAE release. So they didn't have anything to announce and was time to rest after a big release.