Street Fighter 5's Toned Down Focus on Female Bodies "Not Due to External Pressure"

People will always find a reason for offense. You could be sitting alone in a dark room for the rest of your life and someone will still have a problem with it.

Forget this sexuality controversy. The current art style of both men and women in street fighter has gotten too weird. They are all caricatures now.

Liars.

Ofcourse it is due to external pressure.

They are afraid of the fat women hate.

No worries dudes just enter the code: A, B, A, C, A, B, B

Remind me again on what is so offensive about the human body?

So it's okay for a half negat man to walk around fighting in a thong (Urien), but it's now okay for a woman to show off a little ass before a fight. That's crazy lol Being that I play SF for the gameplay, I will not be cancelling my preorder, but this is so one sided.

Glad I cancelled my pre-order.

you are not fooling anyone here mr ono. its pretty obvious you were pressured by outside sources and every gamer knows it. the crappy DLC character lineup was bad enough, but to challenge our intelligence like that is the real offensive insult. just admit that those outside sources and others pulled your development team's leg and was forced to do the censors and move on. its not the first time a gaming company was forced to do censors from outside sources and it wont be the last.

I hate Ono... not only he choose bad character DLC, but also he is actually believing is own BS.

"Stop bowing to *their* external pressure! Start bowing to *our* external pressure!"

-half the comments.

I mean, c'mon, you idiots even tried petitioning them. 7K signatures isn't gonna convince anybody you're the majority.

Well. I have no trouble believing Capcom does want more players. They chose to remove something that they feel might turn off potential players. Doubtful they believe it would have been a lot of players but a little might be worth their time. I donno.

They say it wasn't external, but these days, even if it was mostly internal I just don't think most people will see it that way. If they never included these things in the first place, people wouldn't even miss them or feel like they were being taken away.

I guess Ono at least acknowledges that he isn't going to be able to remove every element that's going to offend someone . . .

Yeah because we all know the huge market section that SJWs are... oh wait, they are an irrelevant group that has no interest at all in Street Fighter.

So all that whining from the GamerGate anti-"censorship" crowd blaming this on feminists or 'SJWs' was completely wrong.

I'd say I was shocked, but then I'd be lying.

The game hasn't even been released. Of course Capcom is fine-turning it's marketing strategies and of course they want to develop a robust player base, just as they did with SFIV.

The FGC is generally a pretty cool group of people. I guess if anyone out there is outraged and feels deprived of an animated butt-slap... don't buy the game.

If SF would only come out in Japan they would have done the opposite, they would have increased the sex appeal. Most of them have no problem internally with it, it's the problem of external forces that makes them do these changes internally, they have a reputation to uphold to whatever that is, they don't want any moms with overinflated defense mechanisms or any other morons coming at them.

Also don't worry StudioFow will show how it's properly done internally. XD

i feel to make things fair they should make it optional whether people wana see the animation or no .

Capcom lies and contradict themselves with what they say... feminism is one of the problems here and is ridiculous! BUT the real problem I see is that they shouldn't have put those camera angles in the first place. No one would have noticed it and this wouldn't be happening... maybe, I think.

Bovine excrement. Feminists are attacking anything and everything that titillates men and it has to stop!

Sort of feels like digital "slut shaming."

How is it fair them censoring Mika smacking her rear on camera because it offends females but it's OK to have Urien running around in a g-string shaking his package all over the screen since they don't care what males think. The only explanation is that Capcom is afraid of the feminazis.

This only shows that the feminazis have infiltrated gaming studios to further their vile agendas, just like the communists infiltrated USA during the Cold War.

But we have no proof that any communists infiltrated USA during the Cold War, so it isn't likely that feminazis have infiltrated Capcom either.

In either case, the fighting genre is the worst offender when it comes to sexualising women, so them toning things down isn't a monumental shift. It's a small step in the right direction, but nothing outrageous, so everyone can relax (if they're at all able to do so).

AKA "Your standard sugarcoated PR"
Come now - no video gaming company is going to be honest about this though I kinda wish every single company out there would give SJWs the "George Kamitani-styled" treatment.

Either way, I'm not too bothered by this particular change - it's just the camera angle and the character models seems to be untouched.
Shame about Cammy though - the new camera angle regarding her entree seems less badass now - the side-view landing looks pretty awkward.

They haven't changed any character proportions, any animations, etc. Mika still slaps her own bare ass before doing her “Ultra” or whatever it’s called in this version. The change is that the camera no longer zooms in on her ass cheek first. Cammy’s entrance animation and outfit are exactly the same. The difference is that the camera doesn’t linger on her crotch during her entrance.

Believe it or not, women play fighting games too. Some of the best DOA players I have ever played were women. Stuff like some of the camera angles they changed from the early versions of SF5 would have been over the top even for the DOA series.

So the internal team was ok with it at first when they released it, then after the world saw it, decided they wanted to remove it to not offend people?

IMO, There's nothing more beautiful or mesmerizing than the female form. And that holds true without the need for exaggerated and unrealistic representations of it. This "fan service" merely plays on the primal male sex drive; something advertisers and media have relied on as an "easy sell" because of high success rate.

Contradiction: The PR Statement.