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Street Fighter producer: "Darkstalkers and Rival Schools might be next"
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Street Fighter is the staple of the fighting game community, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg when you look back at the multitudes of other fighters that have come and gone. Fighting series’ like the Darkstalkers and Rival Schools franchises haven’t been touched in nearly a decade. So what does Yoshinori Ono, the producer of Street Fighter IV, MvC3, and the upcoming Tekken X Capcom think on the subject?
Siliconera got to ask that very same question, which was fueled when Ono first showed off a slide during a Comic-Con panel that read “Darkstalkers are not dead”:
“This has become the thing I do at the beginning of panels at Comic-Con. Maybe next year I’ll ask for $20s and the following year I’ll ask for $100 bills. While they’re holding them up, I’ll go through the aisles with a bucket and collect all of them and quit Capcom and retire rich. [Laughs]”
[In regards to being asked about Rival Schools]
“There are a lot of games I would love to resurrect at Capcom. Right now, we need to build up a nice solid base to get the fighting game genre strong again. Street Fighterwas the obvious first step for this. Marvel [vs. Capcom] has gotten us to a point where at a good level. I’d love to do Darkstalkers next. Rival Schools is a possibility. Power Stone is a possibility, we get a lot of requests for that. Right now, we’re still in the process of making sure the ground work is laid, then we can begin on bringing the lesser known fighting game titles back.”
This particular genre has truly revived in this age of home consoles and online battles that span continents, so what better time would there be than to bring back some old favorites? Power Stone on 3DS anyone? Hmmm….
