SNK vs. Capcom
SNK vs. Capcom, or alternately Capcom vs. SNK, is a series of crossover video games by either Capcom or SNK featuring characters that appear in games created by either company. Most of these are fighting game, and take on a similar format to Capcom's own "Marvel vs. Capcom" series, in which the players create teams of fighters and have them fight each other. Games in this series either contain "SNK vs. Capcom" or "Capcom vs. SNK" in their titles, with the first company named denoting the company behind the game's development. Reception to the series  has been varied; the Capcom-developed titles were the most positively-received, while the SNK-developed installments received more mixed reviews. History. The supposed origin behind this series was an issue of "Arcadia" magazine in which there were articles covering both "The King of Fighters '98" and "Street Fighter Alpha 3", both of which were released at around the same time. Readers had misread the cover, which said "KOF vs. SF", to mean that there was a fighting game that would pit characters from "Street Fighter" and "The King of Fighters". Because of this uproar, Capcom and SNK supposedly signed  a deal that would allow them to produce only two fighting games concerning both franchises in 1999 (the "Card Fighters" series (see below) were not fighting games and therefore were exempt from the rule). It is highly suggested that "" was only made in order to fulfill the contract obligations that SNK made prior to the company filing bankruptcy and their eventual closing in 2000. Also, if one company was the main creator of one game, the distributing company would gain the profits and not the company that licensed the characters for use (although SNK gave the rights to use the  SNK characters to Capcom for the first "Capcom vs. SNK" game, SNK did not profit from the game, which did not help their financial problems). In a 2021 interview with "Polygon.com", director Hideaki Itsuno confirmed that at one point, there had been plans for a new, 3D installment in the series, but that it had been cancelled due to SNK's bankruptcy. The 3D assets created for "Capcom vs. SNK 3" were later repurposed for the cancelled "Capcom Fighting All-Stars". There were interviews with SNK that it would be possible to renew their contract with Capcom to make new  SNK vs. Capcom games, but in another interview, both companies stated that they would not do any further collaboration with each other. "SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS" will probably be the last crossover game between both companies. However, in an interview from January 2009, Yoshinori Ono, the producer of "Street Fighter IV", expressed interest in a possible third game if fans demand it. While no new "SNK vs. Capcom" titles have been released since "Card Fighter DS", characters from both companies have appeared together in a handful of other titles, including Akuma and Geese Howard in Bandai Namco's  Tekken 7, Mega Man, Ryu, Ken Masters and Terry Bogard in Nintendo's "Super Smash Bros. Ultimate", Ryu, Chun-Li, Haohmaru, Genjuro Kibagami and Nakoruru in Cygames' "Granblue Fantasy" and Ryu, Chun-Li, Akuma, M. Bison and all SNK-created characters featured in "SNK vs Capcom" series in Netmarble/SNK's "The King of Fighters All Star". Reception. The SNK-developed games have been poorly received, with a Metacritic score of 48% for "Card Fighters DS" and 57% for "SVC Chaos". The two Capcom-developed games and SNK vs. Capcom: The Match of the Millennium have fared better, with "Capcom  vs. SNK 2 Mark of the Millennium 2001" achieving a Metacritic score of 81%. In 2012, "Complex" ranked "Capcom vs. SNK" at number 38 on the list of the best video game franchises.