Gamasutra has posted an interview with David Sirlin , whom you know as, if you’ve been following our blog (If you haven’t, you should!), the man behind the remixing of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix. The interview probes Sirlin and the changes and why they were made, and why he thinks it will ultimately help bring in a new generation of Street Fighters without ruining it for the hardcore fans.

David Sirlin: There‒s been a lot of reporting that the game was dumbed down or something, but I think people are off base there. The changes that make the moves easier to do, do not really affect high-level tournament play at all. There‒s a couple of cases where the move changes really do affect it, and I‒ve changed the properties of the moves to compensate, but in most of the cases, it doesn‒t really affect the balance.