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No Street Fighter V until 2018 - Capcom producer

Tomoaki Ayano says that road to fifth Street Fighter title will be "long and arduous"; explains that new Ultra Street Fighter IV characters are not simple rips from Street Fighter X Tekken.

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It looks like fans wanting a fifth Street Fighter game will have quite a while to wait.

Fighting game fans will be stuck with USFIV for a while.
Fighting game fans will be stuck with USFIV for a while.

Capcom producer Tomoaki Ayano said in a VG247 interview that it will take the company until the year 2018 for Street Fighter V. "Game development is a long and arduous process. If you look at the history of the series, it took six years to go from Street Fighter II to Street Fighter III, and nine years to go from Street Fighter III to Street Fighter IV," he said.

He added in the interview that the new Ultra Street Fighter IV characters--Elena, Rolento, Hugo, and Poison--are not simple character rips from Street Fighter X Tekken. "If we [copied and pasted them from SF x Tekken], they would undoubtedly be the strongest characters in the game. The reason for this is down to the difference in gameplay systems, most notably Boost Combos," he said.

"Boost Combos formed the basis of the battle system in Street Fighter X Tekken and do not exist in Street Fighter IV. Besides adjusting the characters for a game engine without Boost Combos, each will need to have many moves added as well, such as Ultra Combos and Super Combos.A simple rip wouldn't allow us to make the necessary changes, so a lot of work is going on behind the scenes."

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Mortal Kombat X it is...

Mortal Kombat is hard to top anyways...

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@TheExxorcist This was article was posted in 2013, before the SFV announcement and trailer. It's coming around 2016 bro.

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If SFV isn't due until 2018- why announce it now with a trailer that looks like SFIV with a fresh coat of paint? Yeah, it was leaked ahead of schedule BUT it was still made almost four years before the game's release to be shown at some point in the near future.

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@fantasticfreno This was posted in 2013...

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Edited By magnumxd

next will be turbo street fighter iv i guess :P

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just fix the graphics of game its very old for 2014 year seriously

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they will release an edition every year till 2018.

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Why waste time developing new characters for such an old game? Work on the new one.

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@atopp399 But the game already has the modern look yet the core game mechanics still remain faithful to its roots.. Why not expand while spending the time to create a quality successor (just like Capcom has always done for this franchise since the beginning)

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You've got to be fucking kidding me....

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I don't care for the wait of Street Fighter V I really want to see Tekken X Street Fighter

That's the Game I want

If Ultra Street Fighter IV has the Same Modes in Street Fighter X Tekken like tag modes and Scramble battle This will be my last Street Fighter game

I can Understand why people doesn't want to buy it. After the whole DLC thing with SFxT I was so pissed off I had to pay content that was ALREADY ON THE BLOODY DISC!!!!

I like SFxT also if Ultra Street fighter IV had the tag team modes That would be cool I get to use my fav characters in a team battle.

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Capcom Might have another Street Fighter after Ultra Street Fighter IV Who knows?
might be Ultimate Street Fighter IV or Extreme Street Fighter IV.

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@Wahab_MinSeo Don't give them ideas. Otherwise, we'll end up with Super Ultimate Ultra Extreme Street Fighter IV: Okay-We-Swear-To-God-This-Is-The-Last Arcade Hyper-X Edition 2018 Version 7.

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@BrentJohn @Wahab_MinSeo WOW it's about a Time i was post my comment since Aug 2013!

Well Nothing New, Street Fighter 5 Gonna be on Next-Gen

i just wounder what next will come?

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Edited By Wahab_MinSeo

@BrentJohn @Wahab_MinSeo We Wait and See Street Fighter is Good Game Since 1991 and it's Grow and be better and more enjoyable!

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@Wahab_MinSeo @BrentJohn LOL! Yeah, better late than never. But anyways, this wouldn't really shock me.

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@Wahab_MinSeo I don't think it would be a very profitable move considering next-gen consoles are not backwards compatible. Might as well make a new game entirely at that point.

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Edited By Wahab_MinSeo

@bahamutdragons @Wahab_MinSeo True

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Edited By Wahab_MinSeo

Because There are make Tekken X Street Fighter is coming Soon
And For Next-gen Street Fighter X Tekken 2
Later gonna hit Street Fighter V also for the next-gen!
Rumor always shock people if they believe it.

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@Wahab_MinSeo i tho the cancel that game


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Edited By Wahab_MinSeo

@angelofbeast198 @Wahab_MinSeo Why they Cancel Enjoyable Game?
I don't think they will cancel it after they selling a lot & people love it!

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People need to stop viewing this as "new" games. You ONLY buy one game then whenever a new game is released you can choose to pay for it like DLC in any other game.

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i think its safe to say capcom has ran outta steam at this point that the games put off til then

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screw the constant SF4 updates where my Capcom All-stars (SvC style)

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Edited By soulless4now

Just in time for ps5 and xbox next.

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So, Ultra Street Fighter IV is still far from the last version of SF IV then. This game can set the new record for a game with the most version of all time.

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@jark888

I would be very happy to see an enhanced version of SF4 every two years for a couple of bucks.

This way, this game will be played for a very long time. Hopefully long enough to set the record for the longest played game of all time. :P

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@hochstreck @jark888 Agreed, people need to stop viewing this as "new" games. You buy one game then whenever a new game is released you can choose to pay for it like DLC in any other game.

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@rayonmachristie When more people have thought this way, Capcom just got carried away. So, we have another EA.

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Well, I guess I'll just keep playing 3rd Strike on my Dreamcast to practice.

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screw SF5... go harass SNK until you can get them to agree to CvS3

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2018? But that's like...like...9 years. :(

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actually 10, it came to the arcades in 2008

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It took 6 years to fo from SF II to SF III, nine to go from SF III to SF IV, one to go from SF IV to SUPER SF IV, another to go from SUPER SF IV to SUPER SF IV ARCADE, AND ANOTHER ONE TO GO FROM SF IV ARCADE TO ULTRA SF IV. Don't worry SF fans, from here to 2018, you'll get like another 4 or 5 "new" Street Fighter IV. Suggested names: OMG SF IV, LOL SF IV, OMGWTF SF IV, ROFLCOPTER SF IV, SUPER URSTILLPAYINGFORTHIS SF IV.


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@Kusann your sense of humor is sh1t !!!

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Perhaps they are hoping some of us older traditionalists kick the bucket by then so they can do something in full 3D again :P

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I am actually glad that they will take their time in innovating a new SF game. They always tried doing new things, and that is why we only have 4 games in the series

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@DeadManRollin I hate learning new moves and tactics annually for each fighting game.

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@jark888 @DeadManRollin You don't really need to, do you? There's still SF II tourneys being held annually!

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Well I just hope that they don't plan on re-releasing SF4 for the next four years. Give me another cross over or something.

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juri is hot end of history....

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why the surprise?

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MONO SODIUM GLUTAMATE! MSG, NOT MGS YOU FAT TURD!

FACT LICKING DICKFACE

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Looks like a simple rip to me buddy.


SF4 in general has been copy and past for the last 3 games....


I'll pass on Street Fighter 5. Ill just stick to Netherealm Games from now on.

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I still play SFII and SFIII. Take your time Mr. Ono cause a Street Fighter game is not something that you finish in a weekend and hope for a deal at Gamestop.

YOU

NEVER

STOP PLAYING

STREET FIGHTER.

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2018?

I don't even know if I will be alive by then.

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Yes, no SF5 for 5 years. But don't worry you fools, they'll release a new version of SF4 every 6 months until then.

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SFV in 2020 at the earliest.

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i don't get the hate.

I'm all for keeping this game for 4 more years.
The current SF4 is still very popular online.

If a SF5 came out now, everyone would ditch SF4 and we'd all have to shell out big bucks for new PCs and consoles if we don't want to miss the party...
All for changes that would be mostly visual...

I don't necesarily like Capcom and their business practices... But I think this time they're doing the right thing.

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@Icepick_Trotter

I think the hate has a lot to do with them constantly re-releasing the same game for a few years before finally releasing a new numbered entry almost a decade later....only to re-release that one over and over again.

Theres literally almost 20 different versions of Street Fighter II alone.....

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