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Capcom supporting quake victims with donation/Street Fighter 4 sales

Posted — March 15, 2011 at 9:17 a.m. PDT

Capcom announced what their plans are on the Unity website to offer relief to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Thank you to everyone who has sent inquiries and wished us well during this crisis. We want to reiterate that all of our employees in the Osaka and Toyko regions are safe and well, and we thank everyone for their support.

In response to recent events, Capcom will immediately donate 100 million yen to help victims of the earthquake and communities recover from this tragedy.

For one week from today, March 15, Street Fighter IV on iPhone will be available for 99cents/115yen, and all sales of the title during this period will be donated to support earthquake relief activities.

Capcom will also suspend operations or shorten operating hours as necessary at amusement arcades and other business sites that are located in areas served by Tohoku Electric Power and Tokyo Electric Power. In addition, Capcom will refrain from holding special events.

Again, thanks to everyone who has supported Japan during this difficult time, and please help to spread the news about relief efforts.

If you're interested in helping out in other ways, there are several organizations you can donate through, including the American Red Cross.

Story sent in by Moguaiz, Trigger Aznable and mrdrofficer.

Comments

x_Who_Is_Alpha said on March 15, 2011 at 9:35 a.m.

Very Nice Capcom. Showing your merits here.

zIIGhostIIz said on March 15, 2011 at 10:02 a.m.

very good idea, i just bought it, allthough i may not play it haha

tomahawk said on March 15, 2011 at 10:22 a.m.

sweet earthquake/tsunami caused sf4 to be $.99.
Earthquake/tsunami ftw.

HardRojo said on March 15, 2011 at 10:34 a.m.

Capcom will refrain from holding special events.
I hope they don't cancel Captivation but if they have to that's OK :]

PhinnyCupcakes said on March 15, 2011 at 11:04 a.m.

this is better than what SOE is doing - a free month of everquest for everyone in japan... please...

This is a much better idea.

Sektah84 said on March 15, 2011 at 11:21 a.m.

Pretty cool of Capcom. I'll def purchase since it's for a good cause.

duckmouth said on March 15, 2011 at 11:25 a.m.

Catalyst, can you get tomhawk to f*** away from Ehubs please?

Gameplan said on March 15, 2011 at 11:27 a.m.

Great idea Capcom, well done.

Weaponx said on March 15, 2011 at 11:35 a.m.

I'm picking this up now.

SJDevs said on March 15, 2011 at 11:58 a.m.

Great idea indeed, Capcom!

@3
How rude, insensitive, and embarrassing. Are you attuned to reality at all? You should be ashamed.

@7
I second that request.

#10

songman said on March 15, 2011 at 12:43 p.m.

why 100 mill of yen? you can do better capcom. make it atleast 1 mill dollars of U.S money. they right now dont even have power... ouch!!!!!!!! but yea i donated 10 bucks. but im not Rich as capcom

#11

cloudxs said on March 15, 2011 at 12:56 p.m.

@11
Hey, at least they are able to donate something. They go out of the way and help out. Great Job Capcom!

#12

duckmouth said on March 15, 2011 at 12:58 p.m.

@songman #11

100 million Yen = $1,237,000

#13

ryuhayabusa13 said on March 15, 2011 at 1:19 p.m.

Well Done Capcom! Wishing Japan to recover from this disaster and take care of the power plant.

@3
This is no time to be a douchebag, even if you are a kid. If that happened to you, you wouldn't be writing that.

Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for the best.Stand back up Japan

#14

wongba said on March 15, 2011 at 2:31 p.m.

i certainly applaud capcom for doing this, but just FYI, apple takes a 30% cut of every purchase. if your wish is really to help quake relief, you can just donate to the red cross.

not an apple hater btw, that's just what it is.

#15

MALDA said on March 15, 2011 at 3:31 p.m.

(This user was banned.)

#16

CrimsonRelic said on March 15, 2011 at 5:19 p.m.

Nice, they took all the Jill/Shuma DLC rip-off money and donated it to help.

Good thing you can get back all the money you donate, eh? I'm sure that's what they're thinking.

#17

Astar said on March 15, 2011 at 9:57 p.m.

@11
Hey, Capcom gave us what they have to offer over the years, I think we should do them a favor.

#18

bobdole0 said on March 15, 2011 at 10:25 p.m.