It turns out that the developers behind Street Fighter 6 had considered unifying the character names across all regions, but eventually gave up. This means that, at least for the foreseeable future, M. Bison will be Vega, and Dictator. Oh, and Balrog is still M. Bison in Japan. Call ’em what you like.
Speaking to VG247 at Summer Game Fest, both Takayuki Nakayama and Shuhei Matsumoto offered their insight into the dilemma. This was part of a larger interview which you can read right here!
VG247: Speaking of not being confusing to new players… and I’ve had this conversation with a few developers working on older Japanese games, like Sonic Team, because they’ve had the same problem with Eggman and Robotnik and all that… do you not just get tempted to say, screw it, and unify the names? To pick Vega or Bison and just say that’s it worldwide from now on?
