After having spent a decent amount of time with Street Fighter IV at CAPTIVATE last week, I must say: "Do want." That said, the lack of arcades in the United States is going to make it difficult for me to find places to "put up my quarter."
So the home versions of the game (for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC) are the only way I'm going to get my fix. It's too bad it doesn't look like that will be happening this year. According to a recent listing found on GameStop's point-of-sale (image attached), Street Fighter IV is tentatively scheduled for a February 3, 2009 ship date. Yes, that's next year.
Speaking to him at CAPTIVATE in Las Vegas, producer Yoshinori Ono told us that his team would begin working on the home ports as soon as the arcade game was complete. As he put it "they wouldn't be getting vacation," and they'd be trying to get the game done as quickly as they could.
While GameStop doesn't think slave driver Ono-san will have it done for North America before the holiday, there's always a chance. Retail release dates have been wrong in the past, haven't they?
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7:23 PM on 06.05.2008
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I Have been waiting for Duke Nukem Forever for 12 years
But seriously, as long as they use the time to add more characters and make sure the net code is fine and stuff, I'm ok with it. I'd loooove to have it by Christmas though.
My Dad, however, is bummed out.
Also: Is the PC version delayed to February along with the console versions? The Arcade machine is basically a PC in a cabinet with a special controller after all, it runs Windows and has upgradable hardware and everything, so the PC version is essentially DONE already.
Touche! I gave up on Duke Nukem a long time ago. I am still hoping for a new battletoads game! It's been FAR too long.
Where I live we missed out on Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection in arcades because Namco released Tekken 5 on consoles so soon after the arcade version that everyone stopped playing at the arcade and the owner saw no reason to invest in an upgrade when it would probably come out in 6 months tops
Yeah, but usually because the game is delayed further.