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.
The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?
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.
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.
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.
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The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
This is really kind of a shame, but it's rather telling of the state of the arcade scene here in America I think.
I think they should have said no more because there are already some here.
http://www.eventhubs.com/ar...
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 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.
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!