A pretty insightful interview on design decisions and perspectives by industry veterans, one who basically helped define fighting games as we know them nowadays, but has mostly been on the sidelines over the years, and another that was inspired by him and has been working on his own fighting game series for about 20 years:

https://jiyunajp.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/akira-nishitani-katsuhiro-harada-interview/

I figure it was worth sharing here in a place where people tend to share their own experiments in fighting game design.