SNK Expresses Interest in Reviving SNK vs. Capcom
Fighting games are a decent portion of SNK and Capcom’s individual libraries, but the two companies used to make crossover fighting games with each other’s properties. The series has been inactive for decades, but it appears as though at least SNK is interested in reviving that relationship.
【EVO2022 SNK x Capcom】 After more than a decade, SNK and Capcom are back for two collaborative posters from the legendary illustrators Eisuke Ogura and Shinkiro!
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According to an interview with Video Games Chronicle, Yauyuki Oda, who was producer on multiple recent fighting games like , , and, said he was into the idea of bringing those crossover games back.
“Definitely in the future, that’s something that I think everybody on all sides, in both parties, are interested in making a reality,” he said.
While he spoke on Capcom’s behalf, a company he used to work for, he admitted that SNK hasn’t talked “in detail” with Capcom yet.
“We haven’t really talked in detail with anybody at Capcom about it. It might have come up as a vague comment,” said Oda. “However, we have a lot of experience [in crossovers] with things like Akuma and Geese in, Terry [Bogard] in, Terry in, and Baiken in. But recently, we haven’t actually done anything with Capcom, even on character collaboration stuff. So that poster [at Evo], in our sense, was
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