So Capcom's NYC FightClub event has come and gone. While there weren't any announcement of any new characters and/or features, Capcom did let people (including pros like Justin Wong, Marn and Santhrax) get their hands on the game first. Here's videos of Capcom's Seth Killian explaining some details of the game while the aformentioned players get to try it out.
As an added bonus, here are interview with Justin and Marn on their impressions on DeeJay, Juri and T. Hawk.
Here's some new character art of the newly announced characters for SSFIV from the official "Nakky blog" (run by project manager Natsuki Shiozawa). These seem to be the select screen art for the new characters.
DeeJay - Epic grin is epic.
T. Hawk
Juri - is it me, or is she getting hotter and hotter the more they show of her?
The blog post itself seems to talk about how they create these portraits from the in-game models and shows an example of how they did the one for DeeJay.
Gamestop has just posted on their website that Super Street Fighter IV will be coming out in March 23, 2010 to the tune of $39.99.
The info does seem to go with what Capcom has officialy stated (spring release, lower than full price). Take note however, that Gamestop does have a habit of posting "guessed" dates that later turn out to be wrong just for the sake of pre-orders. However it would really be awesome if at the very least, the pricepoint turned out to be true.
That said, I'd gladly pay full price for this as the original SFIV has given more more than $60 dollars worth already.
Apparently, contrary to earlier, reports Super Street Fighter IV might be getting an arcade release after all. A post in the official Japanese SSFIV blog state that they're fighting hard for an arcade release for the game.
Do Want!
If you want to show support for an arcade release of Super SFIV, there are already a numberofpetitions where you can let your voice be heard.
Super Street Fighter IV has been officially revealed. A new version of the original teaser has been released showing Ryu and Ken duking it out by the sea.
The official Japanese site has been updated with the details of the first of the new characters T. Hawk and newcomer Juri.
Meanwhile, Gamespot has posted an interview with producer Yoshinori Ono with important details about SSFIV.
Information from the interview include the ff.
SSFIV will be released on a disc, and won't be available as DLC (Downloadable Content) — but the game will be priced as an upgrade — not a brand new title.
They're thinking of adding around "8-ish" characters to the game. (Recent rumours have pegged this at 10).
More features to the online modes are planne including changes so that people can enjoy playing as a larger group (likely referring to lobbies).
Existing characters will received tweaks and balancing.
Bonus Stages aren't 100% confirmed, but very likely.
You won't need the original disc to play this update, but those who have a copy of SFIV will be, "happy to have held on to it," as they'll be receiving something nifty.
Juri is a Korean Tae Kwan Do fighter and is very important to the storyline.
They skipped "Champion Edition" and "Turbo" and jumped straight to "Super" for the name of this upgrade because of the scale and size of what they're planning.
Classic looking logo taken straight from Super Street Fighter II
Juri giving M. Bison some of that old Tiger Knee action.
The pics pretty much confirm that the earlier leaked shot was legit. Here's hoping that tomorrow's announcement still has more surprises in store for us.
Edit: It seems that people are having trouble accessing the site meaning that it's either getting swamped with traffic or Capcom has asked them to take the article down. To make up for this, I've uploaded all the screenshots to Flickr.
After having been teased for the longest time, and then not appearing at TGS (except at supposed secret showings), Capcom Japan has now released a teaser for an announcement that will occur tomorrow at 5PM Japan time.
Click on the image to see the teaser.
The URL itself also contains the words "new warrior" which is sure to fuel speculation until tomorrow. So does this mean that the supposed Super Street Fighter IV (as hinted at this photo that was supposedly taken behind closed doors) is real? I guess we'll find out tomorrow at 5.