Yoshinori Ono announces departure from Capcom after almost 30 years with the company

Yoshinori Ono leaves behind a massive legacy dealing with the battling game community. He has announced that he will be leaving Capcom this summer after nearly 27 years of being with the company. While other developers had actually continued to supply brand-new entries in their franchises, after Street Fighter 4, a number of fighting games would strike levels they had not seen in years.

Players all over the world discovered this enthusiasm either had for the very first time, or had it reignited in them. And now, after serving practically 30 years at Capcom, Yoshinori Ono is leaving Capcom in this summer. This suggests that he will resign his position as the brand name supervisor for Capcom’s different titles consisting of Street Fighter.

Yoshinori Ono signed up with Capcom back in April 1994, and was part of the Sound Engineer of Development team Department 1. Since joining Capcom, he had worked on over 30 titles with the company, consisting of Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Street Fighter X Tekken, Darkstalkers Resurrection, Street Fighter 5, and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Known for his high energy and hallmark Blanka toy, he would frequently do autograph sessions, and meet-and-greets at Fighting Game Community events, since he had become a cherished figure in the scene for his many achievements.

For many gamers, Yoshinori Ono’s many significant achievements were helping the fighting game resurgence back in 2008 and 2009 with the game and console releases of Street Fighter 4.

Yoshinori Ono is incredibly grateful that so many gamers and Fighting Game Community members and its related individuals have been supporting Capcom so that it can make the Capcom Pro Tour occur this year. He has been attempting to call those whom he has gotten to work with previously about his resignation. It is rather challenging to reach out to all of the individuals he has associated with throughout his career for nearly 3 decades, so he would like to humbly ask for everyone’s kind understanding.

Yoshinori Ono would like to extend warm greetings and his gratitude to those individuals and businesses he has had an opportunity to work with. Capcom personnel in the new generation will continue looking after the Street Fighter brand name and leading the World Warriors. And he thinks that Capcom will continue to make Street Fighter remarkable. He will eagerly anticipate seeing the new Street Fighter brand and how it is going to be expanded, as just one of the regular gamers next time around.

Since Capcom Cup in 2013, the Capcom Pro Tour has actually become an annual event because of the continued significant assistance from the gamers and Fighting Game Community members in the world. There have been lots of unforeseen occasions taking place globally in 2020. Particularly the Covid has actually been substantially affecting many people’s lives and health all over the world.

Yoshinori Ono hopes that everyone is staying safe and healthy.

Needless to state, Yoshinori Ono understands there has been some criticism about the particular format of this year’s Capcom Pro Tour. However, he is totally encouraged that it is necessary to clarify different hopes by keeping the event even in this method. He has been with the Street Fighter brand name for a long time, experiencing great times, hard times, and even non-existent times.

Yoshinori Ono’s heart is filled with gratitude to those players who have been giving kind and warm support on the brand name especially over the past years as all the activities on the Street Fighter brand restored sunlight and grew its liveliness. He thanks players, Fighting Game Community, and Street Fighter fans for their continued assistance. Capcom had numerous internal discussions about the format for the Capcom Pro Tour 2020.

It took a long time for Capcom to decide the format for this year, but it believes that conducting the event itself would repay those who has actually been supporting the Capcom Pro Tour, regardless of what the format is.