Super Street Fighter IV is coming. Yup, total surprise, I know.
Here's what you didn't see coming: it will be a standalone retail disc, but it won’t be sold at full retail price. Capcom wanted to release the new content as DLC, but it’s not possible due to all the changes they've done. SSFIV will provide current Street Fighter IV owners with some kind of special bonus though, which sounds kind of odd.
So what’s going to be in Super Street Fighter IV? Eight new characters are coming, two of which you already know about: T. Hawk and new female fighter Juri. The number of new characters could change though as Capcom is open to fan feedback. In fact, a lot of the new content here is based on fan feedback.
A lot of tweaks and rebalancing work is being put into the online code and the original 25 fighters, and because of that, there won’t be any online verses compatibility between Super and regular Street Fighter IV.
The new game will be out in Spring, 2010 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. So how do you guys and gals feel about Super Street Fighter IV? Here's a round-up of our continued SSF IV coverage:
 | Arcades: Super Street Fighter IV not coming to them
Xbox 360 No need to stand while playing Super Street Fighter IV. According to SFIV producer Yoshinori Ono, the title will be a couch-constricted affair. That is to say, of course, that the title won&rsquo... |
 | Guide: How to STFU about Super Street Fighter IV
Street fighter Editor's Note: We're not just a (rad) news site -- we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive the opinions of Destructoi... |
 | T. Hawk and Juri gameplay footage from Super SF IV
Xbox 360 Hey look, it’s a bunch of media for Super Street Fighter IV you've already seen! Deal with it. New screens, new artwork and the new teaser trailer all await your brains pleasure zone. T. H... |
 | Super Street Fighter IV screenshots appear!
Xbox 360 In an effort to write as many stories about Super Street Fighter IV before it's officially announced, here's another one -- French Web site JV247 has some images now! (Yes, that's their watermark... |
 | Is this a Super Street Fighter IV teaser site?
Teaser Of course it is. But as a quasi-journalist, I know not to say that until it's been officially confirmed. Instead, I'm meant to tell you that Capcom has launched a mysterious new website, whose ... |
 | Rumor: Super Street Fighter IV accidentally revealed?
Street fighter A Gamepro Germany writer took a picture with Street Fighter IV's Yoshinori Ono doing some Hadoukens during TGS this this past week. Nothing strange about that at all. But look in the background. ... |
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8:30 PM on 09.28.2009
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If Shivering Isles can be DLC, SFIV tweaks and characters sure as shit can.
I don't think its a size issue, so much as busting up any hooks they may (or may not) have put in place at first.
Then again, I'm a bit more trusting of most devs at face value than most.
Glad to hear its not full retail price, though. More than $30 seems a bit much, so long as we're assigning arbitrary value to months of work (at least).
UNLIKE BLAZBLUE......with it's 2 characters and balancing.
AALLL that said, I'm interested. Knowing it won't be full price and that owners of the original will get a little something extra makes it not feel as bas as it should.
Also, Dee Jay is already confirmed. There's screens in the new Famitsu.
I don't know, I think Capcom could have made this DLCable, but I guess they want more dollars (assuming they didn't go for DLC for people with no internet in their consoles, lol)
I knew when I bought SFIV that Capcom wouldn't let it be and would do an incremental follow-up, it's just what they do with SF, but considering the times we live in I had hoped it would be DLC rather than a whole new version of the same basic game. If they really make it worthwhile with the pricepoint and supposed bonus content I won't mind though.
"Super Street Fighter IV will be a standalone retail disc, but it won’t be sold at full retail price. Capcom wanted to release the new content as DLC, but it’s not possible due to all the changes they've done. SSFIV will provide current Street Fighter IV owners with some kind of special bonus though, which sounds kind of odd."
High five, Capcom. Don't listen to the self-entitlement punks! Do yo thang, grl, do yo thang.
My guess for the bonus is a few extra costumes, taunts, or SFIV online avatar pics.
I hope they prove me wrong and make it something worthwhile: otherwise there'll be a lot of people trading in their copies of SFIV for this. Hell, I might!
I'll buy this.
See, I'm just not a personal fan of Capcom's "Super" "Hyper" "Turbo" "Second Impact" "Third Strike" minor tweak cash-in attempts.
My favorite Capcom fighting games (and I feel the best ones) are fully justified sequels, like SNK 2, Alpha 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, and many others.
Don't forget the new challengers
Now if it comes with all of the Street Fighter 4 multiplayer content on a second disk, easily worth sixty :)
Seriously, this new girl has no chance of making it into classic SF character design. She looks like she should be in an SNK game (what character have people said of that before?). Chun-Li, Cammy, Sakura, Ibuki, and Makoto (and Elena and Rose a little) are as classic as character design gets. Clean and crisp. They aren't overtly flashy, but they also shine through with personality and thought put into their characters. Juri looks like some fan made her up.
I shouldn't be surprised. Abel alone was the sole good character added in IV (El Fuerte would have passed with me if it wasn't for his insulting Chef bit (way to respect Lucha Libre Capcom!)), where the rest of the characters didn't at all match the greatness of the classics. IV competely misses the
point by either ripping other characters, or forgetting the series is called Street Fighter, as in people who look like actual fighters (okay, exaggerated, but still believable in a fantastic way) and could throw a punch.
I'm not going to stop anyone from enjoying IV. Hell, I'll admit it's a good game (because Super Turbo is a good game). But damn if Capcom isn't willing to advance the series. SF Alpha and III didn't kill SF (hell, they tried to save it!). SFII did. It looks like history's repeating itself and the fans cheer as it happens again.
P.S.: Even though I hate Capcom's shameless reusing of older characters ("for the fans". Ugh!), I'm glad T. Hawk and probably DeeJay made it in. For the longest time I hated those characters along with everyone else. Then I actually started playing as them. That's when I realized I love DeeJay and T. Hawk, and the only reason I hated them was because I was supposed to (group mentality). Hell, I'll state that T. Hawk and DeeJay are the best additions to Super II, and among the best characters in SF period. So stand proud Thunderfoot Warrior and Kickboxing Rhythm-Man, you are worthy!
It's been ten years since SF3...
Did you really think Capcom, or for that matter, any smart business would venture back to a an old franchise and simply try to continue where it left off? Hoping for a successful outcome? Especially in a niche genre like Fighters?
They made the right choice.
That said, this not being DLC is a load of shit.
Capcom is fucking awesome, the end.