Capcom throwing cash at SFIII: 3rd Strike

By Fred Dutton Published 9 May, 2011

Online Edition's budget tops SSFII HD.

Forthcoming downloadable brawler Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition is to be a decidedly lavish affair, judging by comments from Capcom top brass.

Speaking during a live "Ask Capcom" Q&A, as reported by Siliconera, senior VP Christian Svensson revealed that the game has a bigger budget than 2008's excellent Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.

"When I look at Street Fighter III, Street Fighter III is currently our highest budget - at least out of this office - the highest budget digital title we've done. It's higher than [Super Street Fighter II Turbo] HD Remix." he said.

"We're trying to raise the bar in a number of ways, no matter what, every time. Unless it's a straight opportunistic play, we're trying to raise the bar not just for Capcom, but for sort of the sector.

"Somebody's asking, 'A higher budget than HD Remix, even with all the new sprites [for that game]?' Yes, Street Fighter III's budget is higher than HD Remix, even when we had to make all the new sprites for HD Remix."

Community manager Seth Killian also chimed in, insisting, "I think you're gonna be very, very happy. If you like 3rd Strike, you've got nowhere to go but way, way up with this version."

Svensson didn't detail exactly how all that cash is being spent or when the game will be ready for release. However, he did suggest that we'd learn much more at E3 next month.

"You will be deluged with information in about four weeks," he promised.

No platforms have so far been confirmed for the game, which was announced at Comic-Con in July last year.

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Comments (20) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • BigDannyH #1 1 year ago

    Fucking-A!

    The Beast is unleashed.

  • richarddavies #2 1 year ago

    @BigDannyH

    Are you talking about your penis?

  • andrewsqual #3 1 year ago

    Just because you spent 2 years trying to fit Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix onto Xbox Live's ridiculous 200mb limit (at that time anyway, which they then increased it to 300mbs just for this game) doesn't mean it was a huge budget you dumbasses Capcom. Now low and behold 3 years later the Xbox Live limit is 2gbs now for Arcade games AND THATS STILL CRAP. Thats why Strangers Wrath and the 2 Resident Evil HD Masters are going to be a total ripoff when are released as On Demand games.

  • cherryuk #4 1 year ago

    This is superb news - I haven't played SF3rd since the Dreamcast!

  • BigDannyH #5 1 year ago

    @richarddavies

    I wish.

  • IMD1_Pk #6 1 year ago

    Capcom you know which online system to use. If you put that trashy SF4 system in it's a no-buy for the majority of us. You have a lot more overhead to work with now unlike with SF4, so it shouldn't be a problem.

  • espibara #7 1 year ago

    No doubt they are spending the money trying to get the online side of things up to scratch.

    SFIII is the competition pro players game of choice so it has to be right.

  • FuzzyDuck #8 1 year ago

    None of that nasty DRM either, please?

    Edit - I don't want to sound negative about this (it's probably gonna be my most played game this year, and is certainly one i'm loooking forward to the most), but Capcom has to realise they've probably lost as many customers because of that Draconian DRM as they've prevented using "account sharing".

    But they've most likely lost a lot of good will from genuine customers too.

    Edited by FuzzyDuck at 09/05/11 @ 23:03

  • NeoKenzi #9 1 year ago

    Yeah! Can't wait! In the words of Peter Griffin... Freakin' Sweet!!!

  • carrotcake #10 1 year ago

    I just want this to complete my SF experience since I never had the original 3rd Strike or any version of SF III. I know it is a very hardcore game and I will be absolutely shit at it but I just want the experience... always been curious about Street Fighter as a fan of fighting games but until SF IV never really got into it.

  • convercide #11 1 year ago

    (Let's get it on now)
    Select and make your first pick
    (Let's get it on Yo)
    10, 9, 8, 7, 6
    (Let's get it on Yo)
    Choose and pick the best one
    (Let's get it on now)
    5, 4, 3, 2, 1

    AD INFINITUM.

  • A-Trak #12 1 year ago

    As I'm a bit of a thicko, I can't get GGPO to work at all, so I've been playing 3rd strike for the past 3 years on my Xbox 360 which is awful, the whole game slows down when you jump, so I'm hyped for this. Even if like all other fighting games I'll get battered by 15 year olds that will inevitably send me hatemail, yaaay!

  • michaelius #13 1 year ago

    Not buying it till they add trophy patch to SFIITHDR.

  • rottingyoda #14 1 year ago

    This is gonna be sweet! I assume 1200 msp? Id pay 2000. Dont think id have a choice in the matter

  • harzo #15 1 year ago

    But how can they afford this after the 'millions' they will have lost by the time PSN comes back online?!

    /sarcasm

  • inutaihanyou #16 1 year ago

    Street Fighter 3 deserves nothing but lavish attention, bring it on

  • Huxamalay #17 1 year ago

    Sounds good, instabuy for me

    /rubs hands

    Next, Arcade ports of SF Alpha / Zero 2 (the best Alpha game IMO) and Marvel Super Heroes please

  • TRUTH #18 1 year ago

    AWESOME!...dreams do come true!!
    Edited by TRUTH at 10/05/11 @ 07:09

  • Cowbomb #19 1 year ago

    Not sure whey they're saying it like it's a good thing, sounds like they're wasting money. It shouldn't cost as much to port a game as making a full HD remake - if it does then you're just being stupid.

  • 32768Colours #20 1 year ago

    Excellent news, but just one suggestion... Please don't redo the sprites! I thought the westernised attempt at manga in SSFIITHDR was dire. Also, maybe it was just me, but I found SSFIITHDR bordering on unplayable at times compared to versions I'd played previously. I just thought it was a poor remake overall.

    Hopefully then, they'll just leave SFIII well alone apart from maybe giving it some good net code. Don't try to fix what isn't broken!