Street Fighter 6 Devs Talk Accessibility, Modern Controls, and DLC Characters

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By all accounts, Street Fighter 6 is a hit fighting game that's received overwhelming praise from critics and players alike, selling more than two million copies since June 2, 2023. It headlined the Evolution Championship Series. It's a staple on Twitch and other streaming platforms. So, when I had the chance to chat with members of the game's development team at Evo 2023 during Sunday Finals, I leaped at the opportunity.

Below is my brief chat with Capcom's Takayuki Nakayama and Shuhei Matsumoto, director and producer of Street Fighter 6, respectively. It's translated from Japanese to English, and lightly edited for clarity. The interview was conducted before Capcom revealed A.K.I. as a new DLC character.

PCMag: Rashid is the new DLC character. What is the process of determining characters that appear in the default roster vs. DLC?

Capcom: In the case of Rashid, he was obviously a very popular character in Street Fighter V. We didn't have any other characters from the Middle East, so that's some representation that we wanted to include. But in terms of how we determine post-launch characters, it's based on what we currently see in the original lineup. For example, do we have global characters? We also try to maintain a healthy balance between male versus female characters, and try to have a variety of different fighting styles. So, all these things are taken into consideration to determine who the next character should be in the lineup.

Will DLC characters appear in the World Tour mode?

Yeah, definitely. All DLC characters. 

World Tour mode was such a love letter to Final Fight . Will Cody, Haggar, or any of those characters appear as DLC characters?

We can't really say anything about future characters beyond