>>11848861
>Alpha 3
I can go back and play any version of a game like Alpha 3 I want. Even the surprisingly decent single player focused PSP version that added a ton of shit. The recent collection has Upper on it, one that many people are much less familiar with, but also isn't even the final version.
>Street Fighter 4
I can not only play any version, but the last version includes the ability to play any iteration of any character from the previous versions, and even a bonus broken as fuck ex mode for fun.
>Street Fighter 5
The last version. Thats all you can ever play, so it will always just be one game. With older games even as late as SF4 you could pick and choose what point in the game's history you wanted to play. They were iterative but CvS2 is a perfect example of people preferring to play a specific version.
Also this thread inspired me to check, but CvS2 had 48 characters, a number SF5 still never got to even with all its DLC over the years :)