Speaking during an interview with Famitsu magazine (via GameSpot), Street Fighter 5 producers Yoshinori Ono and Tomoaki Ayano said that Capcom plans to support the fighting game for quite some time yet, possibly as late as 2020.
Street Fighter 5 support isn’t going away anytime soon
When quizzed about the team’s future plans for the game, Ono-san replied, "It’s not just a 1-2 year thing. We’re looking pretty far ahead … We’ve planned out as far as 2020 or so.”
"Street Fighter V is a title we’re adding on to as it goes along, so we’re working on it while planning ahead on the best way to develop it further,” Ayano added.
Ono-san also told the publication that the team is still working to “solidify Street Fighter 5 as an eSports title. I said in the beginning that we’ve seen a higher number of [tournament] entrants than we had in the Street Fighter 4 era, but we’d like to heighten that even further.
“The more people participate, the bigger tournaments we can host, and the more people are going to watch them, which is directly connected with our sales, and that’s going to decide the future,” he added.
Street Fighter 5 was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in February 2016, although the game was initially dogged by a perceived lack of content upon release as well as a number of online server issues. While Capcom had planned to sell two million copies of the game, Street Fighter 5 failed to hit its target, moving 1.4 million copies as of March 31, 2016.
Capcom quickly picked up support for the game however, releasing a free story-based expansion, A Shadows Fall, for the game in summer 2016. Read our Street Fighter 5 review to find out what we thought of the game at launch.
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