Capcom Overworks Ono, Says Famous Street Fighter Producer

[Berzerk]

the stink is strong with capcom yes.

Yoshinori Ono is another developer who decided to speak up about working conditions within the electronic entertainment software industry...specifically, working conditions at Capcom. In a lengthy interview with Eurogamer the producer tells writer Simon Parkin to use the headline "Capcom overworks Ono" because he says the company would sack him if he tried speaking up on the issues.

Just so readers have an idea of what this is all about, Yoshinori Ono is the famous producer who rose through the ranks of Capcom and eventually nursed Street Fighter back into the mainstream spotlight with Street Fighter 4. According to Ono, Capcom wanted nothing to do with Street Fighter after Third Strike because they didn't see it as a mainstream seller anymore and Ono says he received a lot of inter-office political opposition getting the game done and out there

Full Article;

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Capcom-Overworks-Ono-Says-Famous-Street-Fighter-Producer-43521.html

[TriniXaeno]

wow, I find that hard to believe.

I would think the game that best defined capcom would be Street Fighter.

That's like Namco distancing themselves from pacman or tekken.