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Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition
“After last April, when Super Street Fighter IV was released, we got a
lot of requests and a lot of comments from fans letting us know what
features they wanted to see if we were to do a sequel,” says Yoshinori
Ono, the game’s producer. The result is Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade
Edition, which brings four new characters and a variety of tweaks and
enhancements to the game.
Players will be able to get their hands
on Arcade Edition in one of two ways. First, existing Super Street
Fighter IV players will be able to download the additional content
through a DLC bundle. It’s scheduled for a June 7 worldwide release for
$14.99. In addition to that, the Arcade Edition will be sold at retail
near the end of June at a price “that won’t break the bank,” as Ono puts
it. The game is also hitting the PC, which should come as good news for
players itching to put their homemade arcade cabinets to the test.
In
addition to four new characters—Evil Ryu, Oni, Yun, and Yang—a new
robust replay channel has been added. The channel will allow players to
track five of their favorite players, automatically downloading their
most recent match highlights. In addition, onlookers can filter searches
to only show replays from players with 3,000 or more PPs, providing a
glimpse of how the pros do it. Players can save 50 files locally and
share them with their friends.
Capcom is keenly aware of what
kind of accidental effects this kind of DLC strategy could have, and
they’ve taken steps to avoid problems.
“When you do something
like this, a lot of times it’s easy to accidently splinter the
community, because you have people with regular Super Street Fighter IV,
you have people with DLC, the disc, etc,” says Ono. “Right now we’re
looking at a situation where we have a community of dedicated Super
Street Fighter IV players of between anywhere from three to four million
people. The last thing we wanted to do is to splinter that community or
harm it in any way, so we’ll be patching Super Street Fighter IV so
they can have matchmaking sessions with people who do have the upgrade,
so nobody is left out in the cold. Your copy of Super Street Fighter IV
will be perfectly playable online; you’ll be able to play anyone who has
any version."
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