Takayuki Nakayama, the current Street Fighter director, who had joined the project halfway through, detailed several of Street Fighter 5’s faults. He acknowledged in an interview with Game Informer that the game’s bare-bones debut was owing to a number of features under development by the game’s previous director, Yoshinori Ono, that were not completed in time for release. As a consequence, the game went through a lot of post-launch adjustments and course corrections, and Ono himself left Capcom in 2020. While a new post-launch strategy was being developed, certain cutbacks were made before it was even completed.
