Street Fighter Producer Takes Break Following Health Scare

After collapsing from exhaustion and being rushed to a hospital in South Korea during a Street Fighter X Tekken event, Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono is taking a break from his role at the company, he wrote on Twitter Thursday. “I’ll refrain from work for current job for a while,” Ono wrote. “Another person in charge […]
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After collapsing from exhaustion and being rushed to a hospital in South Korea during a Street Fighter X Tekken event, Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono is taking a break from his role at the company, he wrote on Twitter Thursday.

"I'll refrain from work for current job for a while," Ono wrote. "Another person in charge of SF series for a while. Of course I'll constant support to it."

Ono wrote that he doesn't know when exactly he'll return to his role as producer on the Street Fighter series, but he's going to use his recovery time to think about his future with the fighting game franchise.

Most recently, Ono served as producer on Street Fighter X Tekken, which Capcom released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 earlier this month.