Capcom gives SFIV profits to quake relief

By Fred Dutton Published 15 March, 2011

Plus, donates ¥100 million lump sum.

Capcom has slashed the price of the iOS version of Street Fighter IV to 59p, with all proceeds to be donated to the relief effort following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan last week.

According to the Capcom Unity blog, the offer lasts for one week from today. Great game, great cause, so open your wallets if you haven't got it already.

On top of that, the publisher has also donated ¥100 million (around £768,000) to help victims of the tragedy, and suspended operations or shortened operating hours at amusement arcades and other sites served by Tohoku Electric Power and Tokyo Electric Power to help conserve energy.

Capcom is the latest in a long line of publishers and platform holders to announce it's putting its hand in its pocket to help out following last Friday's cataclysmic national disaster that left thousands dead and many more homeless. Nintendo, Sony, SEGA and Namco Bandai are among those who've already come forward with significant donations.

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  • bdc #1 1 year ago

    Good on those devs :)

  • coolbritannia #2 1 year ago

    I wonder if this is related to the voice actor for SFIV who is feared to have perished in the tsunami?

    edit, pasted from the other thread:

    Just looking at sosjapan.org, it's a website for missing persons. One of the listed missing is a Fumihiko Tachiki, quick check of Wikipedia reveals him to be a voice actor for many games, including Perfect Dark Zero, Kingdom Hearts and Street Fighter IV.
    Edited by coolbritannia at 15/03/11 @ 18:50

  • evild_edd #3 1 year ago

    @coolbritannia: that might be the choice for the game I suppose, though sure they'd have done something anyway.

    Good to see the industry stepping up to the plate on this.

    Just waiting to see how much Bobby Kotick puts in to the relief funds....

  • wizlon #4 1 year ago

    So then, 41p goes to help with 18p going into Apple's wallets, I'd rather they charged 1.99 and at least a decent amount of money would have gone to help, I know every little helps and all that but it hardly feels like a donation at all. Still good of them to do that though.

  • AllenSpawn #5 1 year ago

    No interest in SFIV.....

    But off to buy it right now.

  • INSOMANiAC #6 1 year ago

    Don't forget microsoft, who kindly offered $1 everytime you advertised their shitty fucking search engine on Twitter.........

  • coolbritannia #7 1 year ago

    Apple should waive it's fee and give the full amount to the tsunami fund. I wish people would stop this cock waving contest around who's making contributions to the relief fund. I'm sure not every publisher/dev will give something, though certainly western companies are contributing too. Microsoft pledged an initial $2 million.

    However, there's a question mark over whether Japan actually needs funds en masse, it is a rich economy and can borrow money cheaply if funds do start to dry up. I've been trying to figure out if comic relief or the tsunami fund is the more needy cause, on a purely economic level obviously.

  • BigDannyH #8 1 year ago

    Great idea, but they should've made it costumes or something. The iPhone version is so bad it'll just make even less people realise what a brilliant game they've made.

    Plus the costume packs are horrendously over-priced. Wouldn't feel so stupid if part of it was to a good cause.

  • stevethemeat #9 1 year ago

    Great job Capcom, fair play to them and the other companies who have come forward so quickly, the whole world could learn from the generosity, humility and respect for each other that the Japanese have shown since the terrible tragedy.

  • INSOMANiAC #10 1 year ago

    Japan is a rich economy is it............. I think not.

  • Pirotic #11 1 year ago

    It's always lovely to see companies putting profits to one-side for a greater good.
    Would be a shame if apple don't decide to give it's cut away either.

  • jablonski #12 1 year ago

    Fuck you Apple

  • stevethemeat #13 1 year ago

    @Insomaniac - There's always one fuckwit is there not?
    Edited by stevethemeat at 15/03/11 @ 19:38

  • Spong #14 1 year ago

    Respect to Capcom. And to all the other devs I hear are doing their bit.

  • ZuluHero #15 1 year ago

    lol, i paid £4 for this just the other day - is there any way for the full amount of that to go to the relief as well?

  • vizzini #16 1 year ago

    Good work Capcom, if I owned that handset I'd buy a copy, and will probably buy a copy of SSFIV this week.

    I also wonder how easy it would be for Sega to do a quick and dirty DLC version of Virtua Fighter 5(ver D) or 5R for PSN @ £40, with half the proceeds donated to the tsunami appeal.
    No one outside of the Japanese arcade scene has every got to play a revision newer than VF5c anyway; so it would effectively allow Sega to donate without damaging their business at all.

    It should easily generate £1.0m(50k seller x 20) and help maintain momentum and interest in the VF franchise which only survives (and keeps AM2 in business) because of the small but profitable Japanese (VF5 FS & R) arcade scene, which they sadly don't have power for, or local people with enthusiasm to play at this point in time.

  • Widge #17 1 year ago

    The game is DIABOLICAL with a touchscreen control method, but happy to shell out my 59p.

  • INSOMANiAC #18 1 year ago

    At steve the meathead, I think youll find the Brittania fellow is the fuckwit for suggesting the japanese dont need relief funds because they are have a strong economy when in fact they were on a knife edge of debt and deficit even before this disaster.

  • Mkwone #19 1 year ago

    I can see why the choose the ios version, for a start it's got a huge target and downloading an app is a spontaneous decision now. If it was retail most people would be too lazy. And lets not forget the price is cheap enough for everyone to download which would prehaps make them more money to donate than trying to sell retail version or DLC.

    I must admit i find the closure of servers and arcades a it bizarre, but i suppose it must help, it's just not something i thought of when the disaster happened.

  • Jolly_Armadillo #20 1 year ago

    Mkwone, they need to ration energy throughout the country as the tsunami has badly affected their energy sources.

  • coolbritannia #21 1 year ago

    Insomniac, are you seriously suggesting the Japanese economy is poorer than the African nations that typically get funding via comic relief? Or are you suggesting we should all donate money to Japan to prop up it's fiscal policies once the govt there has resolved the growing humanitarian crisis?

  • Lucodeath #22 1 year ago

    Japans trade deficite is huge so there not mega rich at the moment. (Spending more than there earning) but there sure to bounce back.
    Edited by Lucodeath at 16/03/11 @ 00:43

  • Froggit #23 1 year ago

    Maybe he's not comparing it to Africa at all (he's not) but tht the Japanese ecom=nomy has been on a bit of a knife edge recently (it has) and that this is obviously fucking it over more (it is).
    Maybe he's saying that having the attitude of "Oh they're rich, they don't need any support" is a bit retarded.
    Maybe.

  • Lucodeath #24 1 year ago

    100 million yen is only £37.48 :)

    or it could be $1.2m
    Edited by Lucodeath at 16/03/11 @ 00:52

  • Ryze #25 1 year ago

    KUDOS.

    I have no iDevice yet, BUT I'LL BUY THIS IN ADVANCE FOR THE DAY THAT I DO!

  • coolbritannia #26 1 year ago

    @Froggit - British rescue teams now being turned away from the disaster zone so they're returning home. It's almost like Japan is the biggest economy in the world that regularly trains and budgets for natural disasters isn't it?

    I am not diminishing the horror of what happened, but Daily Mail style sensationalism doesn't help anyone. The grim facts are the Japanese government can provide for the survivors fleeing the tsunami zone, the search for survivors is all but over. It's now a case of recovering bodies and repairing infrastructure.

    I'm not saying don't donate if you want to, Japan is a very generous nation that regularly contributes to relief funds worldwide, I'm just saying as far as I can tell, the average citizen of Japan living in a camp right now has a lot longer life expectancy than the average citizen of say, Uganda, or Sudan, or Chad, or Pakistan....
    Edited by coolbritannia at 16/03/11 @ 08:28

  • ozzzy189 #27 1 year ago

    Come on bill, bet yer brass out. Won't do ms any harm to help out.