Street Fighter 6 is launching later than many thought, but the game’s producer has now explained why.
You probably know that Street Fighter 6 is launching this year, on June 2, but that’s actually much later on in the year than longtime series fans are used to.
Before Street Fighter 6, major titles in the series typically launched early on in their respective years, usually around February. The game’s producer, Kazuhiro Tsuchiya, is well aware of this, and spoke on its longer development cycle in an interview with Game Informer (opens in new tab).
«It’s very rare to see games come to fruition where they were able to deliver everything the team was aiming for,» says Tsuchiya. «There’s always some sort of compromise that had to be made or ideas that had to be scrapped due to budget, schedule, resource issues.
But for this time around, regarding the fundamental things that Nakayama-san [Street Fighter 6’s director] wanted to accomplish with his dream project, it seems like we haven’t really had to make any sorts of omissions or compromises for this title.
