Street Fighter 6 director Takayuki Nakayama and producer Shuehi Matsumoto expressed their desire to bring Capcom's older fighting games to modern systems. Capcom's position in the fighting game space has been hotter than ever. Between the release of Street Fighter 6 and its post-launch content, the publisher has been revisiting its past and bringing back a lot of its older fighting games to modern platforms.

The most prominent of Capcom's efforts to bring back its older fighting games are the various collections it has released over the past few years. Capcom bundled a number of Street Fighter games together in the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, followed by the Capcom Fighting Collection, which includes underrated titles like Darkstalkers and Red Earth. This past June, several Marvel vs. Capcom games were bundled together as part of Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics. Capcom also announced Capcom Fighting Collection 2 earlier this August as well, preserving many older Capcom fighting games that haven't had re-releases, like Power Stone and Project Justice.

In an interview with Gamerbraves, Takayuki Nakayama and Shuhei Matsumoto gave their thoughts on preserving Capcom's many fighters. Even though Capcom Fighting Collection 2 is already bringing back games like Power Stone, Nakayama and Matsumoto want to bring back as many classic fighting games to modern systems as possible. According to a Capcom representative who translated their statements, the two are working on bringing back games that are no longer playable today, to make sure they are on as many playable platforms as possible in the future.

Capcom also acknowledged that there would be a lot of challenges involved in bringing back some of these classic fighting games for a potential Capcom Fighting Collection 3. One of these issues would be "physical limitations," which would mean troubles with the hardware and which versions of the past game to bring back. This reasoning would apply to games like Rival Schools, Tech Romancer, Star Gladiator, and Plasma Sword: Nightmare of Bilstein, all of which were experimental 3D fighting games released on the arcades and later the Sega Dreamcast.

The other challenge the publisher notes it would face would be the various Capcom crossover fighting games, which is likely an issue with licensing. Games like Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: All Stars, Street Fighter X Tekken, and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future, would be the ones that would require negotiations between all relevant parties, similar to the Marvel vs. Capcom collection. It's evident that both Nakayama and Matsumoto are passionate about making Capcom's classic fighting games accessible to everyone.

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