By delt75

By Guru_Larry

@Guru_Larry and myself did an episode of fact hunt where TTI claimed to have almost had to exclusive rights to Mortal Kombat!

I have a feeling that this Street Fighter 2 story is *****

By dodgykebaab

TurboGrafx/PC Engine was great but this would've done more damage than good for the game itself.

By BlaizeV

By sdelfin

By JJtheTexan

Forgotten Worlds bombed in the arcades, so Capcom were happy to license them out to both NEC and Sega for them to develop and release home ports on capable hardware.

I am of the belief that Capcom originally intended Ghouls 'n Ghosts/Daimakaimura as a launch window port to the Super Famicom in 1989. When the SFC got delayed, Capcom must have realised that a direct port would have missed the boat, so they repurposed the project into Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts/Choumakimura instead. When Sega (and later NEC) came knocking for the rights to home ports of Arthur's second adventure, Capcom were happy to grant them to keep the brand fresh for the future SFC title and earn some royalties in the process.

By BLAZINOAH

By turboxray

By delt75

Could be that some discussions did take place, and it seemed like a real possibility at the time, but a small degree of misinterpretation and/or exaggeration on his part turned it into "We had it in our pocket."

By smoreon

By sdelfin

By slider1983

By jygsaw

Capcom and NEC/Hudson might have had some conversations about a SF2 port to the TG16 in late 1990-early 1991 due to the fact that SF1 had been a launch title for the CD-ROM2. Yet I doubt Capcom were interested in licensing a TG16 release at the time. Capcom licensed SF1 to NEC/Hudson for development and publishing because the NES wasn't powerful enough to do it justice, while Sega were still also-rans focusing on the Mega Drive's launch. By 1991, the situation had changed. The SNES had launched and was powerful enough to port SF2 to the machine. Capcom enjoyed a good relationship with Nintendo and Sega were picking up steam in the West, whereas the TG16 had bombed stateside. SF2 was always heading to the SNES first.

When SF2 became more successful than Capcom's wildest dreams, combined with greater competition in the console space leading to more favourable terms for third parties, it then made good business sense to port SF2 to the TG16 and MD.

By BLAZINOAH

By mjparker77

I just flicked through my copy of Like a Hurricane by ROM and I couldn't see any mention of this in there either. Prior to the SFC release the only rumours I read in the gaming press were reports of SF2 coming to the Mega CD.

Unless very large sums of money were exchanged why would Capcom lock down their biggest hitting title to a machine that didn't have the largest user base in 91/92 and was only succeeding in Japan, failing in American and barely registered in Europe?!

According to Wiki, by 1992 the PC Engine had sold 5.4m units in Japan, whereas the SFC had already sold 7.9m units despite releasing 3 years later. Plus Nintendo completely dominated Japan back then and had a stranglehold over many publishers so them getting temporary exclusivity makes sense. Then again, maybe Capcom used NEC as a pawn to get a higher fee out of Nintendo for this?!

By bring_on_branstons