Practically since the beginning of the year 2022, it was clear to everyone that we would have a new Street Fighter on stage. And the reason must be found in the usual cycle of this type of game but, above all, at the arrival of the next-gen and the celebration of the 35th anniversary of the franchise within a panorama where the eSports scene rules a lot, which, with each passing year, is gaining more and more importance within the saga.
At the moment a teaser and a logo
Capcom released on February 21 the first teaser trailer for Street Fighter 6 with what seems the beginning of a fight between the famous Ruy, who never misses one of these events, and Luke. The two pretend to fight with a demonstration of blows that shows more or less what the graphic evolution that fans expect for the new saga will be like. Essentially, hyper realistic movements and a smoothness that hopefully resembles that of the trailer itself, which makes for a truly amazing impression.
In any case, do not think that the fans were happy with that, since another of the important changes comes with the logo. If in previous deliveries Capcom did not dare to radically modify the forms making the old one created practically in the 80s evolve, for this sixth part he has preferred to throw the house out of the window and create a new one that is more compact and that saves putting the full name of the franchise. Just an “SF6” which, by the way, also leaves behind the habit of using Roman numerals.
The SF6 logo controversy
That Capcom had the right to change the logo of the game to give us the impression that a new era is beginning is beyond doubt, another thing is that simplification has led him to use one that was already (almost) designed in advance, available in an Internet photographic service that allows us to use an infinite image bank for any graphic resource we need.
For this new Street Fighter, the Japanese have taken one of those 80 dollar images, they have modified some elements of the S and the F and they have added the famous 6 next to it, giving it a look that has made rivers of electronic ink flow in networks. social networks: that if it is the icon of a app mobile with 6 notifications pending reading, that if the numbering of the game looks like a chat bubble, etc. And of course, we could get as far as this with a franchise that not only It is the watchword of the history of videogames of the last 35 years, but will have the obligation to be for the next decades.
Capcom is sure that he will have received the hint from the fans and now it remains to be seen if, after the complaints, he backs down, tells us that the material announcing the 21st is not definitive and that they are simply giving mystery to the moment in which they will reveal the new logo that, yes, will already be respectful of the tradition of the Street Fighter lifelong. And it is that it is what social networks have, that for good and bad, serve as an early test to find out if an artistic decision made by a company is accepted as expected. Or not.