This clown made up a lot of things about Street Fighter 6 and Yoshinori Ono, all of which have proven to be totally fake.
Recently Nakeyama, the SF6 and SFV director, said that they started to work on SF6 back in 2018. Back then he wrote a 92 pages pitch with the concepts and ideas of the game and said that until now the game remains pretty much exactly as in that original book, something he said is very rare because typically games evolve during game development due the normal ongoing iteration inside gamedev. Not only the director, the SFV producer also continues in SF6.
We also saw a from verified proper leak an internal Capcom document from early 2020, before the big Capcom leak and the covid lockdowns, that back then SF6 was scheduled to late 2022. Later we saw SF6 and some of the games they had back then interally scheduled for 2022 were delayed to 2023 very likely due to covid.
A couple years before that (when they were starting season 5) Ono said that they expected the SFV to last the aprox. same than the SFIV series and that they wouldn't release SF6 before that, they were going to continue supporting SFV. To last exactly the same would mean a SF6 release in February 2023.
Ono quitted from Capcom once he completed his task of building the Capcom eSports division and prepare super ambitious SFV eSports plans that costed a lot of investment to Capcom (it's CEO said it was going to be one of the pillars of Capcom for the next decades) but were totally destroyed by the Covid. Capcom Pro Tour was going to have dozens of tournaments around the world, SFV was going to be in the Tokyo Olympics, they hade a deal with ESPN, colleges/universities from USA & Japan and also had prepared small local events in the Capcom stores to create small local communities for entry level players.
All these plans got destroyed and didn't know until when covid was going to last, so Ono took responsability and quitted from Capcom after having worked so hard at Capcom as executive producer & guy in charge of the Capcom fighting games he had health issues related to that. The guy (a man, unrelated to fighting games) in charge of the Mega Man brand replaced Ono and now is in charge of the Capcom fighting games too. As usual in GaaS, if a game is successful they continue to support it with new dlc and updates and if not they stop supporting them. Due to the big success of the most recent seasons and the SFV Champion Edition rerelease they decided to make the last season longer and to include there more content than originally planned.
This is the true, what we saw Capcom or Capcom employees said or did or what we saw in their job roles or games. Now compare it with with what the "insider" said:
According to him Ono was demoted and fired, and replaced as director of the game (he wasn't director of SFV or SF6) by "a popular woman very well known in the fighting game community". The supposed reason was because he wanted to make SF6 a 3 vs 3 game that people didn't like and they had to restart its development and delay it from a planned 2021 release to a 2022 release, and that the reason of making the last season longer than expected was to cover the supposed mess of SF6.
Since this leaker clown was right with some of his other leaks (he has been wrong in many more too) many people believed his lies about Street Fighter and Ono, affecting Ono's reputation and some SF fans harassed him due to these fake rumors.
Very true, it emerged naturally out of the very secretive industry....
It's funny that in my eyes anyway, I see Xbox becoming less secretive and Sony becoming even more tight-lipped.
MS isn't less secretive, during recent years they announced games to be released 5 or 6 years later because they didn't have more exciting announcements for the short term because almost didn't have big exclusives.
Sony instead always had a big number of good exclusives and news of other stuff coming in the short term so they focused instead of marketing the short term stuff. This first half of the year they had things like Sifu, Horizon 2, GT7, Ghostwire Tokyo, DnF Duel or the new PS+ so they focused on marketing that. Now they released all of them they are starting to move their focus to the next batch of stuff they'll release the next year more or less:
Stray, Rollerdrome, TLOU Part 1, GoWR, Forspoken, Valkyrie Elysium, Season, Little Devil Inside, Spider-Man 3, Granblue Fantasy: Relink, Project Eve, FFXVI, KOTOR remake, FFVIIR ep 2, PSVR2 and its games like Horizon CoM and the RE games etc. plus all the stuff I may forget and all the stuff they have to be announced for 2022-2023, like most of the PSVR2 launch lineup.
I want a job in Marketing. They do nothing.
PlayStation marketing team has the best metrics in revenue and social media than any other platform holder ever had in gaming history.
If you beat their metrics with other company I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to hire you.
“ it’s like shooting fish in a barrel for internet fame. Seems like a lot of devs are getting fed up with it though.
