Quote Originally Posted by j_factor View Post
It was still alive in the west. It's not exactly outlandish to suggest a port for markets outside Japan. I mean, considering North America and Europe got their own special 16-bit "port" of Virtua Fighter 2 in 1996, it's not such a stretch to suggest a Genesis version of Street Fighter Alpha 2 around the same time. (The last Genesis game was released in 1998 )

Maybe sales figures went into consideration? How well did the SF franchise sell on the Genesis? Anyway, Virtua Fighter 2 is a special case since it's a first party title and it's in the best interest of Sega to take advantage of the Genesis installed base, just like Nintendo when they decided to buy the distribution rights to release SFA2 in America and Europe.