Capcom is so confident in Luke that it has already added him to Street Fighter 5 and branded him the future of the series. The other - more promising - side to the story of the Street Fighter 6 roster is that it has the largest number of newcomers to the series since Street Fighter 3. Hell, Street Fighter 5 has an incredibly strong cast of newcomers, and even they could only have two spots in the next game.
The exact same story can be said for many characters in the series Sean, Urien, and C. Flash forward to today and he’s been in one Street Fighter game since and isn't even included in StreetFighter 6’s initial roster, when he's considerably more popular now than he ever has been in the past. In Capcom’s eyes he was the future of Street Fighter when the SF3 series began, he was front and center on the posters and was the one to take down the antagonist, Gill.
While bringing back iconic characters like Blanka and Guile is a proven hit, the overrepresentation of these characters five games later robs any newcomers of a chance to be icons in their own right. There are some duds in there - I don’t think anyone is in a hurry to get Remy or Twelve back - but Capcom’s success with Street Fighter 4 is a double-edged sword. In the years since Street Fighter 4, the cast of Street Fighter 3 has only become more beloved characters like Makoto, Q, and Dudley frequently top DLC requests for the series. The real issue was just how far they took it with the ‘New Generation’.
But the issue wasn’t with Street Fighter 3 moving away from SF2 - any fighting game sequel needs to make changes as it evolves. Street Fighter 4 was massively successful, proving to Capcom that banking on the nostalgia of the biggest fighting game of all time at that point was the correct move. The series lay dormant for ten years until the release of Street Fighter 4, which went in the complete opposite direction from SF3 by bringing back the entire cast of SF2 and making the core combat feel like a modernized version of that game. Street Fighter 3 didn’t exactly take the world by storm.
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