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Edge: No Street Fighter IV for U.S. Arcades

Despite its rich arcade pedigree, Street Fighter IV will only be officially released for home consoles and PC in the U.S., Capcom told Edge on Friday.

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Tacki5642d ago

This is really kind of a shame, but it's rather telling of the state of the arcade scene here in America I think.

INehalemEXI5642d ago

I think they should have said no more because there are already some here.

http://www.eventhubs.com/ar...

Tacki5642d ago

Well, it's kinda like PS3 games. Certain titles might be banned in some countries but being that all PS3 games are region free you can just import any game that doesn't get an 'official' release in your country. So yes, you can still import a Street Fighter IV cabinet... but that's of course very expensive. No doubt considerably more than it would be if they were released here in America 'officially'.

INehalemEXI5638d ago

Nevertheless the title is misleading IMO.

housegroove765642d ago

wow, capcom just officially ripped the soul out of street fighter for the US. The SF games have always meant to be in the arcade. Its a complete shame. Im glad arcades are still alive and well in Japan

The gaming GOD5642d ago

The arcade business has never slowed down in Japan. Whereas on the other hand, in the U.S., arcades having been a dying breed. The only places you can play arcade games are some movie theaters, resorts like disney world and disney land, and a few arcades left throughout America.

Luckily, I live in NYC, so I'm sure Chinatown's arcade will get the import cabinet.

JonahFalcon5640d ago

There's still plenty of arcades, just subsidized and focused.

Such as in Dave & Busters or Chuck E. Cheese.

You'll always find people playing DDR in an arcade, even though you have home versions.

If you're telling me SF4 won't draw a crowd, you're nuts.

TheColbertinator5639d ago

Dave and Busters is a good spot.I was playing Metal Slug and some KOF there a few days back.

JonahFalcon5640d ago

Three words:

SCREW YOU, CAPCOM.

It's all well and nice to have the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions for sale, but people want to show off their mad Street Fighter skillz IN PUBLIC.

THAT'S THE ENTIRE POINT OF GETTING THE HOME VERSION - SO YOU CAN SHOW OFF IN PUBLIC!

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The 7 Best Street Fighter Games: Exploring the Franchise

The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?

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How Street Fighter IV Saved 2D Fighting Games (Ft. Maximilian Dood)

After Street Fighter II released in in 1991, it caused a fighting game explosion, both in arcades and in home consoles. But, as the decade ended, and arcades were failing, so too were 2D Fighting games. This is how Street Fighter IV completely revitalized the genre.

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Snookies12312d ago

I'd say Blazblue helped too. Didn't care for Street Fighter 4, but Blazblue was amazing during that time. Sad that the series kind of went downhill after the first 2 or 3 games though.

DarXyde312d ago

BlazBlue was phenomenal. Platinum'd Calamity Trigger because I loved it so much. I remember buying Continuum Shift back in the day at launch for like $40. They did have DLC characters (Valkenhayne, Makoto, and Platinum at the time) and it came out to just a tad more than it would at full price. Didn't mind at all.

Great fighting game.

Snookies12312d ago

Continuum Shift was definitely my favorite. Spent way too many hours on that game, haha... Had the counters for days with Hakumen.

DarXyde312d ago

I really like Makoto, Valkenhayne, and Hazama. Super fun characters

Terry_B312d ago

Valkenhayn ..just sayin'

Terry_B312d ago

BlazBlue was the much better, more technical game..and a real 2D Fighting Game after all. But yes, since it was a big name..the characters were still popular and the game itself was good, SFIV indeed helped a lot. However, I am pretty sure the much better-selling Mortal Kombat 9 would have been done without SFIV as well..and that one truly helped to make the fighting game genre in general more popular again.

Ryuha1234h312d ago

You’re sound dumb. Blazblue was not better than sf4. You’re just saying that because you’re a street fighter hater.

Redgrave312d ago

>calls someone dumb
>does it by saying "you're sound dumb"

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Terry_B312d ago

A SF Hater eh? Fight me in SF 2,3 4 or 5 and you will regret that stupid comment ;)

gold_drake312d ago (Edited 312d ago )

eyyy max xD

one of the very few streamers i can actually watch without it being cringe and awful ha.

GhostScholar312d ago

The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.

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Street Fighter Producer Says Fans Need To "Convince" Nintendo, If They Want More Entries On Switch

In the same interview at EGX 2019 recently, Capcom and Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono responded to a fan question asking if there were any plans to bring the fourth or fifth entries in the series to the Nintendo Switch.

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gamer78041644d ago

they botched SFV so bad, just start over, make a new version with proper single player mode and fully fleshed out with support for all of the consoles this time.

King91644d ago (Edited 1644d ago )

Gamer7804@ they already did kinda it call sf5ae it help sf5 sell like another 2 million copies.

Teflon021643d ago

SFV is actually great now. Bunch of modes, bunch of characters, alot of stages, not sure what else there is to even complain about. Costume MTX? Not a issue imo, I don't get what I don't want anyways

gamer78041643d ago

botched launch, and they launched only on one console and currently after a long time still on one console.

Enigma_20991644d ago

Did you see how Ultra and the Collection sold? We don't need to convince Nintendo of anything. Just put it on the console.PHYSICALLY.

King91644d ago

Enigma_2099@ they probably have to make a new sf game just for the switch they probably will need Nintendo to help fund it just like sony help fund sf5.

PhoenixUp1644d ago

You’re not seeing Street Fighter V come to other platforms besides PC because Sony helped co-fund the game so it’s staying only on PS4 & PC

NapalmSanctuary1643d ago (Edited 1643d ago )

Don't know why anybody would want SF5 on Switch. Especially if they owned a Switch.

rainslacker1644d ago

That doesn't makes sense. Is Nintendo saying that Capcom can't publish the game on the system because it's users don't want the game? if so, that's really stupid of them, because why should they care?

Nintendo isn't saying such things of course.

Capcom shouldn't pass the buck. If they don't want to make more SF games on the Switch, then just say so, and say why.

If they want Nintendo to fund the project, then they are the ones that need to convince Nintendo to give them money.

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