It turns out that the Street Fighter 6 developers considered unifying character names across all regions, but ultimately gave up. This means that, at least for the foreseeable future, M. Bison will be Vega, and Dictator will be Dictator. Oh, and Balrog is still M. Bison in Japan. Call them what you want.
Both Takayuki Nakayama and Shuhei Matsumoto spoke to iGamesNews at Summer Game Fest about this dilemma. This is part of a longer interview that you can read here!
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iGamesNews: Speaking of not confusing new players… I’ve talked to a few developers who worked on old Japanese games like Sonic Team because they had the same problem with games like Eggman and Robotnik… Don’t you want to say, forget it, just unify the name? Pick Vega or Bison and say that’s the way it’s going to be from now on everywhere?
Nakayama Takashi: So actually, I personally did want to unify the names so that they were the same across all regions. We were heading in that direction when designing and creating this character. But after thinking it over and over again… we came to the conclusion that Japanese players would want to call him Vega, and American players would want to call him M. Bison.
iGamesNews: And some people will keep saying dictator!
Shuhei Matsumoto: Yeah. And it was kind of hard. So we just kind of… gave up. [laughs]
It’s a bit difficult.
Currently, the names are going to vary depending on what you’re used to and where you grew up. I actually think it’s a beautiful relic of the old days that you really don’t see anymore nowadays. Tell us what you call each Street Fighter character below!
