Opinion: Aris Bakhtanians’ sexist and offensive remarks during Capcom’s Cross Attack event kicked up a justified storm. Is an apology from Capcom enough, or should they and other fighting game developers take more responsibility?
One of the highlights of FanimeCon 2025 was the Capcom cosplay gathering.
Capcom has removed GFWL from PC versions of Lost Planet 1 and 2 as well as other titles on Steam alongside support for online features.
The earnings reports of Capcom's Fiscal year 2024 showcase the growth of PC over console, with 60% of game sales being made on the former.
What’s interesting is that, given how well their games sell, it’s very likely most of them fall into the 25/75 revenue split bracket. The larger ones, like Monster Hunter, are in the 20/80 bracket.
So even accounting for the vastly superior regional pricing on PC, I wouldn’t be surprised if revenue-wise from digital sales, both platforms are close, or if PC is ahead as well.
Yes PC is the biggest platform and it has definitely improved as a home console of sort plug and play. It's the only platform with actual freedom for gamers with modding. I was a console gamer for over 38 years and now I only play on Pc. Whether you are buying pre-built or building it yourself it's now easier than ever before to jump in
And my experience with pc gamers has been excellent, they are helpful with any questions on pc boards
As a gamer who also loves replaying his old favorite titles, possibly with a few mods as well, I can’t imagine ever getting another console.
They spoke about resident evil and monster hunter I would actually find the monster hunter breakdown more interesting tbh as I've always felt like this game would be at home on PC
but for resident evil it's always felt like a PlayStation mainstay despite having exclusivity elsewhere likely because it was where I first played it. The game feels like it's begging to be played lights off in the loungeroom late at night or also in VR I've never been as scared as I was playing re7 in VR
Is this really suprising? Looking at the evolution of the Switch, X|S and Playstation 5?
The biggest cause is probably the lack of game purchases on the Xbox platform. Also keep in mind this is only digital sales so there is a chunk of sales not being shown here.
Geee... while we are at it, let's try to get the porn industry (another form of media) to apologize for "objectifying women"!
It doesn't really matter how ridiculous it gets. There will always be a very, VERY loyal band of supporters for this kind of crap. Anytime it's brought up, you get the same ridiculously fallacious arguments: the "human form" argument, the "prudish American" argument, and the "inverted double-standard" argument.
It's a community that at once loves to ogle and quietly subvert women.
Let me make one thing clear. Aris does NOT represent the fighting game community at ALL!!
He is one person (sub-human) who opened his yap and garbage spewed out.
my friends and I in the FGC did a face palm when he dropped those comments.
Why would you judge a community based off of what ONE person said? Please do not generalize a community like this. It is just very unfortunate that it happened to be on stream
So everyone in fighting game is judged in the same light just because some guy said some crap?! WTF. Sex sells. Is that so difficult to comprehend? Its like 2012 and that hasnt sunk in yet? Whats all this about complaining that female fighters are all exposed etc and male exposure of flesh is somewhat for a purpose? You want to see his penis or something? What the hell is this? Are you Islamic/Muslim or something? Such absolutley garbage journallism.
There will always be that one a-hole in all forms of competitive activities, whether it be sports or video games. Making the loosely based argument that some of these sexualized characters fuels this sort of behavior is weak in my opinion.
So the writer's solution is basically censorship. A cheap "band-aide" approach that doesn't address the real issue. This is b/s because this is no different than the media blaming the violent acts of a few on video games. Think about it for a second there.
Violent video games do not turn gamers into violent people. There have been many study's concluding that there were no links between violent video games and aggression. Of course most of we the gamers have known this already. Just as sexualized female characters do not turn gamers into a-hole sexist. There will always be people like Bakhtanian regardless of censorship or not. This kind of behavior stems much deeper and elsewhere than what the writer suggest is a factor.