That second video is really funny (and sad), for those that didn't watch it Capcom gave Angry Joe their press release info with links to a bunch of digital content and said to spread the word, and he did just that, then they flagged him for it because they didn't like what he had to say.
Personally, I don't care as much that SFV is exclusive, at least not in and of itself. If Sony paid Capcom a hefty sum to make it console exclusive to PS4 then by all means Capcom, that's at least a motivated reason to do this. If however, their partnership really only amounts to assisting with marketing costs, then I do find that just to be a very poor decision, and one that's not worth cutting out a substantial portion of the Western market and the finger in the face of Xbox One owning Street Fighter fans.
And that's kind of what I suspect, after all Capcom has in the past decided to play favorites with no financial incentive to do so. I've no reason to suspect Nintendo paid Capcom to release Okamiden on DS, or Okami on Wii, and not release it on the Xbox 360 or PS3 at the time. I've no reason to believe that the Okami HD remake was paid for exclusive on Sony's part. Capcom tailored a few games to the GameCube a decade back with no real obligation for exclusivity as they later ported them to the PS2, games like Resident Evil 4, Killer 7, Viewtiful Joe. Capcom doesn't get paid off, they just play favorites. However, it was no secret when Capcom got paid by MS to make Lost Planet and Dead Rising timed exclusives to the Xbox 360. Yet, even when they were paid, they didn't follow up with timely sequels, instead they waited for exclusivity to end to port these games to Wii and PS3 and then develop console multiplatform sequels to them. Will they do the same here? We'll have to wait and see.
And I highly doubt Capcom needed money funding this game, especially since the franchise is a healthy seller, and Capcom is a big publisher. If that were true then Capcom must be in some serious financial trouble. But I doubt that's the case at all. Drawing comparisons to this and say Bayonetta 2 hardly compare. Bayonetta 2 was a game that the publisher wasn't going to publish despite it's critical success, and decent sales as a new IP. There's no shortage of criticism that all Sega will back is Sonic titles. And Joe is right, Street Fighter is a big of enough seller that it should easily pay for itself. If Sony were to pay off Capcom to make it exclusive then I hope they paid them good for that, I just highly doubt that was the case at all.
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