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They later stated that development took more than two years.
Capcom however insisted to stick with 2D sprites for their games, and to this end started development on the CPS-3 arcade hardware to support higher color counts for said sprites.
In an interview with gaming website Polygon, when asked if in retrospect the game would have done better if it had not been a Street Fighter title, Yasuda stated while he liked some of the characters, "if I had to change the past, I'd rather just not have worked on that game at all".
In an interview shortly before this show, Capcom senior planner Shinji Mikami stated that it would be impossible to convert Street Fighter III to any of the home consoles on the market at the time.
Capcom referred to the Nintendo 64 release as "just a rumor", and Nintendo would coincidentally delay the launch of the 64DD peripheral until December 1999 anyway.
Amending Mikami's earlier statement, in late 1997 Capcom said it might be possible to port Street Fighter III to the Sega Saturn if one of the console's RAM expansion cartridges were used.
General producer Noritaka Funamizu explained the controversial decision to keep the series in 2D: "We feel that 3D is not really suitable for the head-to-head fighting ... and, to be frank, Capcom doesn't really have the techniques to display high quality graphics in 3D."
Next Generation reviewed the arcade version of the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "The great mystery is why Capcom called this SFIII instead of leaving that honor for a more powerful and revolutionary 3D title.
They also said the new characters are a mix, with some of them seeming like they would be more appropriate for the Darkstalkers series, and concluded that the game "makes you look forward to the next SF installment rather than getting you excited about playing this one repeatedly".
Jim Preston reviewed the Dreamcast version of the game for Next Generation, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "It's a no-frills port of the arcade game that is great at a party but pointless for single players."
In 1997-2 the 1st game, Street Fighter III: New Generation, began operation as an arcade game.
It took 7th place for the Grand Prix in the 11th Gamest Grand Prix (1997) run in the magazine Gamest (Shinseisha), as well as 4th for Best Fighting Game, 1st for Best Graphics, 5th for Best VGM, 7th for player popularity and 4th for income popularity, and for Best Character Ryu took 12th place, Ibuki 14th, Alex 22nd, Elena 27th and Necro 37th.
It took 7th place for the Grand Prix in the 12th Gamest Grand Prix (1998) run in the magazine Gamest, as well as 5th for Best Graphics, 6th for Best Fighting Game, 12th for player popularity and 12th for income popularity, and for Best Character Urien took 26th place and Ryu 30th.
Worldwide arcade sales estimates range from between 1,000 and 10,000 units sold.
The first home port of 3rd Strike.
Production at Capcom on the first game in the series started in 1994, and was initially planned to be a separate fighting game franchise entirely.
The game was first unveiled at the Japan Amusement Machine and Marketing Association show in September 1996, in the form of a few minutes of footage incorporated into Capcom's PR demo tape.
The soundtrack to the first game in the series was released on CD by First Smile Entertainment in 1997, and the 3rd Strike original soundtrack was released by Mars Colony Music in 2000 with an arranged version afterward.
(1997-10-16) A version with several bugs fixed
(1999-6-8) A version with several bugs fixed
Character balance also proved an issue, as unlike other Capcom fighting games each developer was in charge of fine tuning their own character's gameplay, resulting in some feeling more suitable for Street Fighters gameplay, while others felt more in line with Capcom's Darkstalkers fighting game franchise.
General producer Noritaka Funamizu explained the controversial decision to keep the series in 2D: "We feel that 3D is not really suitable for the head-to-head fighting ... and, to be frank, Capcom doesn't really have the techniques to display high quality graphics in 3D."
3rd Strike in particular is highly rated by players, and even in 2019, 20 years after it began operation, tournaments and streams are still held.
is a 1997 fighting game in Capcom's Street Fighter series, originally released as a coin-operated arcade game.
Meanwhile, Capcom's North American branch's design support for the title, Chris Tang, expressed shock at seeing the new character designs once they were revealed, with the character Oro in particular causing him to question if Yasuda had left Capcom.
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