Those of you following the news around the Tokyo Game Show may have heard the rumors about this, but it’s finally been confirmed: Capcom just officially announced that Street Fighter IV will be updated next year with Super Street Fighter IV, which adds new fighters (8 in fact), new online features, and ‘rebalanced characters.’ Amongst the new characters added to the roster we have original Super Street Fighter 2 characters Dee Jay and T. Hawk (giving us the full final Street Fighter 2 cast, which is kinda cool), a new character named Juri, a female Korean Tae Kwon Do fighter. The rest of the additions have yet to be released.
There’s a caveat to all of this: while this is clearly an update to the franchise and not a full on sequel’s worth of game, it’s going to be a whole new disc requiring a whole new purchase of the game, and an unfortunate splintering of players, at least initially. The producers have stated that the game will be released at a “discounted price,” and that owners of the original version will be given an undisclosed “bonus.” Even so, it’s a little bit unfortunate and more than a little suspect that the production team somehow couldn’t manage to make this a $20 downloadable add-on a la GTA IV’s Lost and the Damned.
Full details of what’s known at the moment and first impressions from the GameStop people below, and even further below you’ll find a teaser video that show’s absolutely nothing new information-wise, but sure is purty to look at!
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