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Marvel vs Capcom 3 producer, Ryota Niitsuma filmed a video explaining some things about the games and answering questions from potential players. Not a whole lot new here but still worth a watch.

Nothing earth shattering here but it’s worth a watch anyway just to see what Ryota Niitsuma has to say about Marvel Vs. Capcom 3‘s development.

VideoGames Daily’s Rupert Higham had a chance to talk to Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 producer Ryota Niitsuma. During his talk he got to grill Niitsuma about the lack of Darkstalkers characters in MVC3. The reasons he gave might surprise you.

Basically he said the Darkstalkers characters transform too much and when you are dealing with polygons and not hand drawn sprites it tends to use a lot of memory. According to Niitsuma the Darkstalkers that did make it into the game, Morrigan and Felicia, take their toll on memory.

Also Ryota Niitsuma said that a fighter like Demetri who transforms other fighters into the opposite sex might now sit too well with the higher ups at Marvel.

‘Darkstalkers characters are all complete memory hunger-mad characters because they constantly transform into things. They can’t just walk – they have to change into something when they move and it just uses a lot of data. Even just having these two is a big deal. To put Demitri in we’d have to have time to make a whole other game. Doing that in 3D is a big issue. Maybe it was one of those things that we could only do because it was 2D. But fighting games have started to catch on again so perhaps at this rate… you never know.’

UPDATE: Here’s a link to the full interview in which that quote was made.

[Video Games Daily]

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