Doing a console release with patches along with an arcade release makes a lot of sense.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that Capcom doesn’t care for their arcade scene. They’ve shipped software copies all over Japan, they’ve instituted a new card system along with the “store” to go along with together with the whole registration of tags on their system. Eventhubs even noticed that Capcom once said that an arcade port would be “easy” for SSF4, so that’s not even a problem. The theory stated above makes logical sense financially regarding game markets.
Also, I want SSF4 to come to University Pinball really badly when it reopens…
I know all this talk of an arcade release is uncertain but if Capcom releases a USA arcade version of SSF4 and it was a single cabinet to play 2 players and it cost 5K, then it would be extremely succesful. Right now the market is hot in America for SF4. Anywhere in the country if there is an arcade SF4 machine players will flock to it. So if Capcom is worried that SF4 is not doing good in Japan, I say Capcom forget the Japan arcade market and try the USA arcade market. All the 7-11’s will buy the machines and it will be like 92 again. As long it only takes 1 cab to play two players an arcade release will work here in the US. There’s a high demand for a arcade SF4 machine in America today believe it or not.
Capcom should work a deal with 7-11. Now that would be awesome. Believe it or not 7-11 still can have arcade games.
imo SUPER SFIV is the patch to SFIV… they aren’t going to do the online patch thing like other games. If there is new shit that needs tweaking, they will release SUPER SFIV TURBO.
And what parabellum said: The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
What really matters is an arcade release in Japan because Japan’s interest = America’s interest in SF. If Japanese arcades get SSF4 then eventually so will the U.S. If The Japanese won’t take this game seriously I wonder if Americans will. No arcade release means less competition and less support for the game meaning less players; people may not even try the game out because of the lack of players. I HOPE for an arcade release for this game to be a success.
How is Japanese interest in SSFIV even remotely relate to our interest in it? Does anyone here play SFIV just because someone else plays it, or do they play it because they like the competition? Where does our primary competition come from? I dont think any of us play Japanese players on a regular basis unless you live in Japan.
when you go on youtube and watch a fight, are you looking american fight or japanese one?
the hype you can feel in this japanese ARCADE fight give you motivation to play the game more and invest yourself into it.
it s all about the hype. no japanese arcade, no hype. no hype no motivation to invest yourself in the game. no motivation means low level and low level fight will just make you feel like stop playing this game.
it s in capcom interest to keep this game in arcade. personnaly if this game doesn t go on arcade and if sf4( not ssf4, SF4 hype get down) i will stop playing this game.
No arcade version means not serious game. Even blaze blue manage to release an arcade version.
capcom, please don t kill the hype of sf, just release an arcade version.
I can tell you if there is no arcade version, 3 month after game come out nobody will care about it anymore.
I mean seriously, if you wanted to see a match where the best of the best played against each other, would you want to watch an American match or a Japanese match? The answer is pretty obvious.
Ranix lives in Japan (despite what his location says), so… I’d say his opinion should be listened to.
It’s true. Americans may still play the game, but we won’t be as good as we could be if the Japanese don’t play it. I mean, forget about directly playing the Japanese… they just develop the characters light years faster than Americans do. Americans are good players, but our environment does not promote this type of rapid character development. Most of our high-tier stuff, we learned DIRECTLY from the Japanese by watching videos (or going there directly, as some of the top US players have done).
Look at the development of the console characters as proof. Very, very few people care about them, or consider them a threat. We have a small subset of top players trying to expand their gameplay (and good on them), but the console game has been out for 10 months now and we still really have no clue where they stand. After 10 months in Japanese arcades, the original cast had insane development.
Without an arcade release, we’ll take much, much longer to figure out how it works. Without a supremely dedicated player base in Japan, where 100 of the best SF players ever all live in a 50 mile radius and play 8 hours a day together, the game will suffer everywhere. I don’t see how this is even remotely debatable.
Anyway. I’d be 100% shocked if, 2 months after the console release, there isn’t an arcade release of SSF4 (or we know exactly when there WILL be one). Capcom is clearly going to do it.
This will get way way off topic,but i dont give two craps where he’s from that has less then no bearing.
And devlopment? a game called MVC2 might wanna talk to you about that.
Console chars? Justins Fei might have a thing or two to show us in that regard.
And to Quote Capcom’s Keiji Inafune ‘Man, Japan is over. We’re done. Our game industry is finished.’"
I have no argument that japan playing up’s us all,but kill the Japan is number one supa powa line already.
If needed we can take this to a new thread before we all get infracted for derails.
I don’t live in Japan, all I’m saying is that when their is global competition the game will be more hyped and have more people playing it. When people from the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia etc. are playing the game, there is a lot more people playing the game and a vast amount of competition and thats what keeps us playing. I mean how would it be like right now if there was no arcade release of SF4.
Just saying, calling someone a weeaboo who lives in Japan and goes to Japanese arcades regularly is a bit weird.
Whether you want to argue Japanese players > American players is kind of irrelevant, anyway. I think Japanese players are better, but it’s no big deal. The fact is, Japanese people won’t play it if it’s not in arcades. The player base gets much smaller as a result, and the development of the characters suffers too.
Yes, Justin, Sanford, Yeb, and so on are working on the development of some of the console characters. That’s great. It’s still a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of, say, Rufus development (even just the Rufus development that’s taken place since February, if you want to put it on an even timeframe).
I want to see the game released in arcades so that the game gets as much exposure to the best players as possible. It will benefit everyone’s game, even if you don’t live in Japan. That’s all. You probably agree with this, and that’s all I’m saying.
I’m using weeaboo in the context most people are guilty of, which is Japan>the rest of the world.
Aside from that fact i pretty much agree with you,i’m just really sick of that mentality especially from fellow American’s as we are the number one and worst perpetrators.
I dunno if It’s an actual delay, but still, could this be related to what was written in EH? Maybe Capcom decided to delay the console release for an arcade one before it?
First of all, there’s no evidence the console version was delayed. Having it pushed back to the new fiscal year is still right in line with a “spring 2010” release.
Second, I’m fairly sure they won’t be releasing any arcade release before the console release. They’ll either be at the same time (doubtful), or the arcade version will come after the console version by 2 months or less. That’s my feeling based on the remaining time and Capcom’s general tone about the whole thing.
Whats the point of having arcade? The only people who are going to get it are NY and Cali and them clowns are going to brag about how good they are and they are all tournament level players…
