Gamers Helped Capcom Donate $500,000 for Relief Efforts Via Street Fighter IV

How about some feel good news?

Capcom Japan today revealed that a whole bunch of you helped the company raise roughly $500,000 to donate towards the earthquake and tsunami relief efforts ongoing in Japan.

Back in March, Capcom put the pretty decent Street Fighter IV for iPhone on sale for $1 for a week, with all money collected becoming aid for Japan. The results of those sales were released by Capcom today, totaling about $500,000.

"Capcom hopes that these donations may contribute to help provide the greatest possible amount of assistance to the earthquake victims," the company said, while announcing the impressive numbers. "Furthermore, we wish the restoration activities in the damaged areas progress as quickly as possible."

Capcom will also be donating another one million dollars towards the same cause.

This is good news!

Happy news.

That's awesome to hear.  I haven't heard much about how Japan is doing lately actually; I should go read up...

Huzzah!

That was a great idea.

^_^

" That's awesome to hear.  I haven't heard much about how Japan is doing lately actually; I should go read up... "

500,000 people bought an iPhone game for charity's sake? That's a lot of touching gestures.

" @boylie said:

" That's awesome to hear.  I haven't heard much about how Japan is doing lately actually; I should go read up... "

Yeah I feel like the news stations haven't been covering it as much as they should. "

When I saw the title i thought the donations were regarding them losing money because of PSN.

JAPAN GETTIN PAID

Shout Outs to Japan.

Grabbed it myself. Fun times and helping people, always a good combo.

" Shout Outs to Japan. "

Now if they sold the PSN/360 costume bundles for $1, they'd make much, much more.

Yay!

" When I saw the title i thought the donations were regarding them losing money because of PSN. "

I donated to the red cross right after the quake. I really hope more gamers donate, WE LOVE JAPAN!!!

Get Hype!!! for helping Japan!

The power of Street Fighter compels you!

This sort of thing is such a good idea. So many benefits.

Love this story. Gives that warm fuzzy feeling when gaming can make some sort of contribution for charity.

Sonic Boom!

Its nice to not feel depressed after clicking on a news article :).

This is great news -   Really good work by Capcom. Other publishers should take note!

Capcom complains about lost revenue due to psn being down, but donates a million dollars.

I know a million isn't much of hurt for a large company, but it seems like they could have just kept their mouth shut instead of being all

"PSN downtime hurts so much, we might not pull through"

Don't get me wrong though, love capcom and good for them.

" Now if they sold the PSN/360 costume bundles for $1, they'd make much, much more. "

awesome!

" 500,000 people bought an iPhone game for charity's sake? That's a lot of touching gestures. "

GO CAPCOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let's not forget the fighting game community raised at least $30 000 on their own with Fight For Relief etc

Let's not forget the fighting game community raised at least $30 000 on their own with Fight For Relief etc

More publishers should do stuff like this. I remember Sony - before those dumb bitch hackers got their hands on it, anyway - had those PSN themes where, if you bought it (for $2, $5, $10, or more - you pick what you pay), all the money would go to Red Cross relief. I bought a couple of those. It felt good. Way more opportunities should present themselves like this for gamers to help.

Sweet deal! :P So glad for everyone!

That's really impressive.

Good work Capcom and to all those involved!. Great news.

This is awesome!

Yo do that math... at 1 buck each,   500,000 people bought it.