Who desires to be a millionaire? Not me, I suppose, since each time I attempt to play a combating recreation it looks like my mind has been carbonated, however somebody at subsequent yr’s Capcom Cup definitely will. On the finish of the ninth season of its Road Fighter 5-focused Capcom Professional Tour occasion, which concluded final Sunday, Capcom introduced that subsequent yr’s Road Fighter 6 event will up the prize pool from $300K to $2 million.
$2 million is the prize pool for the whole occasion, however $1 million of it can go to the winner of the Capcom Cup, the ultimate occasion of the Professional Tour. To place that into perspective, this yr’s prize pool was cut up throughout an entire bunch of gamers (opens in new tab), with $120K, $50K, and $20K going to the primary, second, and third-place gamers respectively.
1,000,000 bucks is not a fortune by esports requirements, the place Dota and Fortnite gamers compete for prize swimming pools within the tens of tens of millions, however it’s loads for the combating recreation neighborhood. This yr’s first-place participant was a Dominican Road Fighter virtuoso by the title of Saul Leonardo “MenaRD (opens in new tab)” Mena, and Liquipedia lists his approximate complete winnings from competitions at round $400K. Even a super-famous determine like SonicFox (opens in new tab) sits someplace round $700K. The chance to take residence $1 million, then, is a wild outlier for combating video games.
Capcom hasn’t stated when the subsequent Capcom Professional Tour might be, however on condition that the final one simply ended, it is nonetheless some methods away. Most probably, gamers may have a while to familiarise themselves with Road Fighter 6 after that recreation releases on June 2, and the million-dollar Capcom Cup will occur across the identical time subsequent yr, in February 2024.
We’re fairly intrigued by Road Fighter 6 (opens in new tab) round right here. Road Fighter 5 launched to a tepid response in 2016 due to slim content material pickings and buggy netcode, however Capcom looks like it is learnt from its errors. We’re speaking an eighteen-character roster, rollback netcode, and a meaty marketing campaign at launch. There’s even a brand new “Dynamic” management scheme so helpless button-mashers like me do not look fairly as ridiculous at any time when we attempt to play. I do not assume I will be taking residence one million bucks anytime quickly, although. If solely there was a world Morrowind event.