Street Fighter series producer Yoshinori Ono has teased surprises for the franchise's 30th Anniversary – perhaps they'll include an actual game being patched into Street Fighter V? Speaking with IGN, the ever-jovial executive explained: "Around E3 timing, maybe even San Diego Comic-Con, we have one or two surprises we hope our fans will look forward to."
Capcom's releasing a version of Street Fighter II for the Nintendo Switch which it says will kickstart the celebrations – at $40, no less – but it's also got Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite and Season 2 of Street Fighter V to promote, the latter of which will surely appear during Sony's E3 press conference as it has done several years in a row now.
One thing that Capcom's not currently planning is more Rival Schools. "I'll let you know that the surprises this year are not going to be Rival Schools," Ono revealed, crushing our hopes and dreams.
[source ign.com, via gematsu.com]
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Just port Ultimate Street Fighter II to PS4 please. I'm pretty much done with V.
I love V since I got it on Black Friday. It's honestly a genre I only play in spurts. I'd love more single player content!
@Gamer83 as much as sf2 was my favorite street fighter until 5, I just don't think I can be on board with paying $40 on such an old game. Granted, I only paid 14.99 for SFV.
@ztpayne7
$40 is better than the $60 I dropped on SF V. My own damn fault, I gave Capcom the benefit of the doubt that despite bare bones at launch the game would get better over time.
Arcade Mode, please! =)
@Gamer83 It's insane really. There's no excusing the launch state, but I thought it would be so, so much better than it is by now.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
@Gamer83 sf2 (as awesome as it was) is too long in the tooth. It was comprehensibly beaten into history by the Namco fighters a few years later and everyone has moved on.
And yet the gameplay is still the best there is worth more varied and unique characters.
Lol, I sold my copy of Street Fighter V for Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator. The game's like £12 brand new on eBay.
It's going to be Rival Schools. Ono just gave it away by being Ono.
I LOVE sfv. Im one of the lucky ones i suppose. Also id rather play sf2 then any other fighting games. Especially any 3d fighters, eewwww.
FOURTY DOLLARS FOR STREET FIGHTER II?!
No. I am sorry, but absolutely not! You can get the EXACT SAME GAME minus palette swap characters for $9.99 ANY DAY OF THE WEEK, or $1.99 on Playstation Network right now.
You guys have got to be joking, I would never expect it to go above $20, let alone double that price.
Man, I sure love how everyone releasing games on the Switch want it to fail miserably with those god-forsaken prices.
I still wanna know who those 5 other characters are in Street Fighter V Season 2. Not sure if I want that that Street Fighter II game on Switch. If Capcom just made Street Fighter II HD backwards compatible for Xbox One I'll just stick with that. I am looking forward to this surprise though. Maybe the Alpha games will be ported to current gen systems or porting X-Men vs Street Fighter and Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter. With online play of course, that would be great.
An arcade mode would be welcome. Or at least, make the survival mode have a random opponent showing up instead of pre-determined encounters.
Switch Fighter 2 is really appealing to me, but maybe for 10. 40 is lunacy!
@ztpayne7 just because it's very easy to miss if you buy the game now: there's a story mode you can download for free from the PlayStation Store - it won't be downloaded with the updates for some reason.
Looking forward to the surprises - I truly hope the best fighting game out there can will finally meet its potential.
Shade.
@Feena yes, thanks for the heads up. I did play through that on regular mode. Everything was normal except that last nash v bison.
The biggest complaint I have with the game is that the difficulty spikes like crazy. I wish it was more consistent. Survival on normal my first go around was cake for the first 27 matches but then match 28 happened and it felt like I was playing against a pro.
@ztpayne7 Yes, basically in the last 5 matches you face AI level 6 instead of 4. It's cheap and not anywhere close to human-like.
I recommend playing cheap and dirty and spam things that seem to work...you can't fight the AI as you would a human player. Meaning, you can't play rationally or reactively.
It's stupidly open to cross ups and sweeps though. And turning the online matches requests on (with confirmation) could sometimes save you from a bad match vs the AI terminators.
@Feena yes I did read up on it. It's just annoying you have to go through so many meaningless battles. I didn't know going into it and I was owned by Nash #28. Just need to go into it a little more prepared. I was also not playing as one of my better characters - but as the one I seemingly did the best with on easy. It made so much sense to try them first (vega) but when I got to Nash I didn't really have an answer. I'll try someone else eventually. I just wish I could practice on the equivalent. Would you say lvl 6 would be similar, then?
@ztpayne7 yes, very comparable. Crank the AI even higher if you want to be really brutal in your training.
Free arcade game patch ?
Don' t be silly, that wil be a 40 bob-euro-dollar upgrade to Super Street Faita V, plox.
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