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Street Fighter producer does not want main series to stop at IV

"I don’t want to stop Street Fighter’s main numbered series at IV,” series producer Yoshinori Ono says.

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Street Fighter series producer Yoshinori Ono has made it clear he does not want the main Street Fighter series to end at number IV.

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An interview with 4gamer (translated by Siliconera) quotes the Street Fighter series veteran as stating, "Personally, I don’t want to stop Street Fighter’s main numbered series at IV,"

"Realistically speaking, developing a title for next-gen consoles requires a huge amount of staff members, and a large sum of money. The issue of money also applies to everyone else, as it’ll be required to invest in a new console, game, and arcade stick." Ono said.

The issue of money has been brought up in the past, when Ono tweeted that he had no budget for a Street Fighter V on next generation consoles.

"I don't have R&D budget and staff," He said in response to a fan who asked if he was secretly working on Street Fighter V for next-gen. He further explained that his team is now focused entirely on Ultra Street Fighter IV, which was announced at EVO this year.

Ultra Street Fighter IV is in development for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC with no plans to bring the updated game to next-generation consoles. The game includes five new characters, six fresh stages, and a host of gameplay tweaks. For more information, check out GameSpot's interview with Capcom about the pack.

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Guess we'll never see a nicely 2d animated Street Fighter ever again?

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@somatzu @Ranma_X_basic True but Blaz blue only released two additionla games unlike Capcom who feels the need to Release the same game just to add more characters, Tweaks and stuff like that.

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@somatzu @Ranma_X_basic True but at least the blaz blue games aren't as bad as Capcom needing to rerelease the same game every year just to add more new characters, tweaks and so fourth.

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then release a SFV, instead of making 1000000 editions of IV...

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Other than graphically, I'm not sure you can get much better than IV.

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If capcom doesn't want to join us in the next gen. It's going to be GG Xrd for me. Tell me madcatz won't make a fight stick for that game.

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can't wait for the next 10 editions of street fighter 5.

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@rad8045 You're saying it sarcastically, But I really can't wait.

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@Busta @rad8045 I'm with you.

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@Busta @rad8045 LOL

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Unless both the digital upgrade and the retail copy include all existing costumes, I'm still boycotting Capcom.


The game and Capcom have for for how many years milked gamers for any alternate costumes since the first game? While other fighters only charge you alternate costume free.


If the existing costumes are only limited to the retail copy of the game, Capcom can suck on my ****!! I won't buy the upgrade.

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@mike468 The goofy costumes are the only things that kind of irk me about how Capcom has handles Street Fighter IV. But, the pay-to-download color swaps of Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online straight up pissed me off.

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Better wait for Super Ultra Street Fighter 4 Turbo!

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fucking ridiculous a dlc at a full game price, sick of this fucking milking franchises

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@Barrakas21 It's DLC at DLC price. There hasn't been a console Street Fighter game or add-on at full-game price since Street Fighter IV came out in 2009.

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@IceJester45 @Barrakas21 Yet they release the same game over and over again with 4 or 5 new chars and a diferent name every year. If i want to play street fighter i still have my mega drive so i dont really care.

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@Barrakas21 @IceJester45 I know you don't really care. If you cared, you'd at least bother to get your facts straight.

And you're still wrong. They don't release the same game over and over again every year. There hasn't been a new Street Fighter game since 2010. If you think Super Street Fighter IV is the same game as Street Fighter II, you're delusional.

And the Mega Drive version of Street Fighter II sucks.

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@IceJester45 @Barrakas21 Noone knows that because they aren't really interested in street fighter. They just want to complain.

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I'd love Ultra on the Vita... best handheld for fighting games. Also, please keep making em fighters, Mr. Ono.

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It better not stop, you magnificent bastard!

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I would have preferred SF 5 over SF xTekken

I admire the new ultra I don't like the rip off strategy CAPCOM is implementing but its adding more characters and stuff makes me comeback to the game

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No comment.

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Ok, so Capcom will release SF 4.5 Alpha, and then 4.5 Alpha 2, and 4.5 Alpha 3...

Big surprise.

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I dont think street fighter will ever die.. nor should it, but i do think they need to look at the best features in past SF games and put them together.. I very much miss the risk versus reward parry system in SF3, i love the world tour mode in Alpha 3 etc

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@mrsalgado76 World Tour mode was really cool back in the day.

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@Chico86_basic @mrsalgado76 I'd love for them to try to adopt a LoL f2p set up.

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Capcom is just milking and refusing to let the game die, period. It's like Microsoft and Games for Windows Live. It's practically a vegetable... but they refuse to let it die. Same formula.

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@Scisor50 If these add-ons didn't do well financially, Capcom wouldn't release them.

Super Street Fighter IV is still the main event at most fighting game competitions. It is far from dead.

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So, how is Ultra Street Fighter bad, exactly? Super Street Fighter IV released in 2010 for $40. The game got a $15 add-on in 2011. Then, it got a free major update in 2012. Now, we're looking at a $15 update in 2014.

If you were involved in Street Fighter from the day Street Fighter IV launced in 2009, you spent $60 on SFIV, $40 on SSFIV, $15 on the Arcade Edition add-on and $15 on Ultra. $130 over a five-year period -- with numerous free patches over that same period -- doesn't seem bad to me. That's a little more than the price of two full, new games. If Capcom is milking, they're doing it wrong.

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Seriously **** Street Fighter IV

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You're all idiots. This isn't a full priced game they're coming out with. It's an expansion pack. 1/4th the cost of a full game. If you don't have SSFIV then it's half the cost of a full game. Gamers will whine about anything. We're the must self obsorbed and demanding demographic.

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@lowkey254 I'm willing to bet that half the people who complain about the iterations don't even play Street Fighter IV. That or they don't enjoy the game to begin with.

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... Street Fighter III, Street Fighter III 2nd Impact, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Street Fighter III Online Edition

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The series stopped at three! I don't care what anyone says! It didn't sold very well at home and at the arcades and that's the Street Fighter era (1, 2 and 3) that I remember!

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@91210user Exactly my thoughts. I want SF2 glory days back not more of this nonsense. Arcades over here don't even carry SF4.

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Please Please Please Stop it and make something new.

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Borderlands 2 Mechromancer Class

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This is a great value for real fans of the series. However, the new characters are VERY unexciting for anyone who spent any time with SF x Tekken.

While, from a business perspective, it may seem impressive that Capcom has been able to make money on this title for so long (and is a tribute to the original game design), one can't help but wonder how this prolonged life cannibalizes any other potential new fighters from Capcom. Lately, it's all been patches and "HD" digital re-releases. And it seems like there is nothing new on the horizon either, because the executives want to play it safe with their current cash-cow. Not to mention how keeping SFIV on life support kills hype for SFV.

While I'd love to see a new Darkstalkers, I really don't think it would be worth it for Capcom. SFIV did so well because it is iconic. Even young gamers knew SF characters before SFIV was even a thing. Darkstalkers is more niche, and really always will be.

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he wants it to stop at super arcade bowling alley pink lemonade expert edition.

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@Art3Zero Bowling alley LOL!!!!!!!!

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I am not understanding the hate here... So you can update Super Street Fighter IV: AE for 14.99, which adds 5 characters, 6 Stages, and many fixes in the game. Or if you do not own any SFIV editions the disc based version is 29.99.

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@Arthas045 The sad truth is that there is no justified hate. Anyone who plays this game are actually excited for the update. The only people complaining about it are the ones who don't play the game in the first place.

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@dariusq @Arthas045 or used to play the game...

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In other words : This is what Capcom wants to do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8627wXneBg

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Thank god I never about all those costume packs...

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I bought the game on origin lately and it had all the costume packs, seriously as annoying as it was to purchase on PS store when you have all costumes it makes the game more fun and variant, you start loving characters that you never cared for.

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@somatzu @Ranma_X_basic The stories were different. Calamity Trigger lead into Continuum Shift. Though if you get CS Extend then you don't need any previous version as it contains a reconstructed version of CT's story.

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I wish Capcom would outsource Darkstalkers to Arc System Works if they don't wanna make it themselves. And yes, it (Darkstalkers) was mentioned in the original article that Gamespot left out.

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Street Fighter fans such as myself wants to buy fully $60 for fighting games with replay value meaning a good story mode and other variety of gameplay. Will be getting USFIV for I never played any of the SFIV's. Too bad I'll probably end up battling cheap players/spammers online.

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