Random: Did Street Fighter 6's Next DLC Just Reference Sakurai's Famous Smash Quote? Some Fans Think So

Capcom's social media teams have been known to make meme posts, so this is is definitely a wink to Sakurai's quote. I'm personally a bit bummed out none of the newer Street Fighter titles managed to make their way to Switch. But hopefully this will be rectified with its successor.

They're releasing a trailer for a character dlc for winter of 25?

Sakurai probably never actually said that and is going to be so confused when he logs onto X, lol.

Sometimes the American localization changes what Sakurai actually says. For example, in the Min Min gameplay demonstration that was recorded during the height of the pandemic, there's a part where a couple CPU opponents close in, and he pushes them away with Min Min's extendable arms. Sakurai made a joke in Japanese about social distancing, but this was translated as something else in English.

I don't doubt that Sakurai did make some sort of joke about why she was too suggestive to put into the game. But someone who understands Japanese should listen to that part of the presentation to see whether or not he explicitly used the phrase, "good boys and girls."

Don't care much about Mai's quote there (I didn't even notice it until this article lol) but I will say that her SF6 model looks quite good (though her DOA model is still superior imo to any other 3D guest appearances she has made so far).

And thankfully she does look much better then what Terry does. That guy's facial structures in SF6 will forever haunt me.
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@Mommar Winter 2025 also refers to Jan/Feb. Technically Winter is more at the start of the year than the end after all.

@Mommar Winter is coming.

@Mommar tweet says early 2025, So maybe they swapped the last 2 fighters release dates around.

Who cares. Most Westerns playing Smash wouldn't even know who Mai is.

More games should feature Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui. Like, maybe even ALL games.

Haha, the credibility of the translation aside, I am just wondering what Sakurai thinks of Bayonetta being for "good boys and girls" .

Mai has always been a favorite of mine, so I’ll be coming back to Street Fighter 6.

@Coolmusic Terry looks bad in SF6. Like, the kind of bad that would cause quite an internet ruckus if he was female.

After watching that SF6 trailer, Sakurai was right lol.

Here's hoping for a Switch 2 release of SF6. It's shame how Switch has missed out on some of the bigger third party fighters.

İ do not know her but Mai is from a fighting game. İ have searched now Mai is from SNK fighting games Terry is in SNK game or games too. That Terry is now a DLC character for Super Smash Bros Ultimate game.

@Not_Soos I don't remember exactly what Sakurai said in the original Japanese, but he said something along the lines that Mai's inclusion would've caused a conflict in the CERO rating.

That most likely would have caused a delisting while the games was re-rated from a CERO A (All Ages) to potentially CERO C (15+) just for Mai's inclusion. I'm probably exaggerating with the CERO C, but given that rating boards like to bump ratings for minor things, it's not that crazy to imagine.

Regarding Bayonetta, nobody talks about how she was slightly censored for her inclusion in Smash Bros., well certainly not the same way people complained about female Corrin. When she does her Wicked Weaves Smash attacks and summons Gomorrah for her Final Smash only her legs and arms get naked, her torso doesn't.

Anyway, I'm going on a tangent here.
I love how Capcom and SNK would rather make their characters guests instead of working together for a Capcom vs. SNK 3.

What I still don't get about Mai being left out of the SNK cameos in Smash is that she's had more reserved designs they could have used (such as her outfit from Fatal Fury 3) and even then, it's not like Smash wasn't above altering some character designs to keep the age rating lower (Bayonetta undoubtedly being the biggest example). I always felt like it could have been possible to include Mai without having to drastically alter her design to where it betrays the character which I know Sakurai also tends to be heavily against (hence why Ridley took so long to get in).

@Not_Soos from what I've remeber, what he actually did was something about CERO no allowing for Mai to appear in her original look. So yes, "the good boys and girls" was a localization choice.

@OstianOwl the problem was that, unlike bayonetta or even mythra, mai would require a DRASTIC change. So he figured it wasn't worth going through that just for a cameo.

What’s annnoying about this is Sakurai’s joke was at the expense of CERO, along the lines of “CERO has decided that Smash Bros is for good boys and girls” which makes it way funnier. But the localization left that out because they think we’re stupid and don’t know what a rating board is.

And so now english social media is full of “take THAT Sakurai!!” when he never passed that judgment on Mai in the first place.

Sakurai never even said that, unless you think he suddenly can speak English 100% and detached from his own mouth.

Yeah, that’s a stretch.

Wish she would kick my ass I would love it.