Capcom’s Christian Svensson Responds to Questions Regarding Marvel vs. Capcom Origins Game Selection

They’re spot on. MSH vs. SF is pretty poo although it introduced assists.

 There is no longer a Seth filter to make it clear to everyone else.

 I don’t think that precludes Capcom from doing a re-release as long as Activision doesn’t have an exclusive license negotiated.. 
We have the MvC2 re-release out already on top of MvC3 and both games have plenty of X-characters in them.  (And MvC2 is still WAY better and MORE enjoyable than MvC3 will ever be as far as I’m concerned…)

There are many licensing deals that boil down to individual characters, too… and yeah, it’s usually something stupid like a prior development deal that precludes the inclusion of some character or another…  Happens in animation and live-action series all the time.  I hate hearing about how one exclusive TV development deal keeps a character from being used in an action/adventure show and years later it’s revealed those “in-development/done deals” never went anywhere!

My own guess is like most people’s — Capcom’s being cagey and spacing out their releases to avoid what happened with the 1990s fighting game burnout.  I don’t think it’s a licensing issue or even re-licensing costs.  (Unless Marvel’s really stupid and charges too much for licensing, they have to know that these fighting games are great advertisements for their characters and can only stimulate interest in character merchandizing and books…)  Capcom still has the original arcade code in its digital vault and porting to the current systems has to be a small fraction of developing an all-new game.

(I think the Norimaru character won’t make the cut for the digital download ports…  That’s a whole separate licensing issue in-and-of itself and the character was cut from the American arcade releases of MSHvsSF.  {He was a weird, unrelated character to put into the game to begin with!  He’s amusing, yes, but what was the point of putting him in the game?  We already had a useless, village idiot character named Dan!}  There was speculation that Marvel sought to end imports of the Saturn MSHvsSF port because of Norimaru’s stereotypical appearance but how is it even remotely racist when it’s Japanese artists drawing a caricature approved by the Japanese fellow it’s based on????  More likely it was another licensing issue and the Marvel games became too “high profile” for Marvel to let the American imports continue.  Glad I got my copy of the import Saturn game before the higher-profile import shops got scared by Marvel’s lawyers!)

The fighting game genre is not like FPS; even a half-dozen fighters released in the same year would be considered clutter unless there’s enough people to support all those games.  The sales on the store-bought games are down in general this past year or longer and SC V and SF vs Tekken from all reports sold below expectations.  Even FPS games have lower sales now but there’s still a much larger online and tournament participation for those games (though I think they’re even more redundant and repetitive than most fighting game series!).

I think we’ll see the other VS games show up later within the next two years as well as X-Men: COTA (which is the best of the last three unreleased Marvel fighters IMHO).  Most likely all three games will be bundled together…  (Throwing in my own piece, I’ve never liked MvC1 much at all.  My opinion is different from Capcom’s mouthpiece…  Much prefer XMvsSF and MSHvsSF to MvC1 which has one of Capcom’s cheapest final bosses.  I also didn’t care for how the third character assists were implemented, either…)

… and frankly Activision having the X-Men license is a joke.  Even Capcom’s weaker Marvel X-games (SNES era) are better than anything Activision has produced with the characters.  Activision and its developer partners have shown they don’t know how to make a decent fighting game but they sure know how to devalue a license and remind people that most movie-based/pop culture games suck!

CvS2 with redrawn HD sprites would just not be CvS2. No old Morrigan sprite, no buy.

Sadly, we’re getting the obscure transylva-armenian edition with purple and blue spiderman, vertically reverse DP superjumps ang Magneto with a new duckbilled sprite.

 No it didn’t. The best combo system of all the Marvel games is MSH. XSF took the beauty and harmony of MSH’s engine and butchered it to make the shoehorned SF characters more competitive by vastly ramping up the super meter gain for attacks, thus setting the stage for the Marvel Vs. games being extremely meter-management heavy when XCOTA and MSH were never like that.

Capcom also screwed MSH’s engine up in XSF by introducing Flying Screen on normal jumps air combo heavy hits, a fix for a handful of infinites in MSH that, instead of fixing the problem, actually made it 9879871298712398072  times worse.

 i still play it sometimes on my PC but yea i want that online play and it being a Capcom game most likely it would use GGPO so the netcode would be GREAT

Nope, I also like MxSF over XvSF and MvC.

Sad Seth isn’t here to help >: