The fact that an official statement from Capcom themselves on who the 12 characters are going to be pretty much made that rumour fake. Just because they went out of their way to be as detailed as possible crafting the “rumour” =/= legit.
I was hoping it was real just because I hate the fuck out of Blanka. And I haven’t been following this game very closely so I don’t know what’s been confirmed or not.
^^ Feb 21 Press Release.
[details=Spoiler]STREET FIGHTER™ FANS REJOICE AS CAPCOM® BEGINS CELEBRATING
25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS FIGHTING FRANCHISE
2012 Promises to Pack a Serious Dragon Punch with Half Million Dollars in Tournament Support and New Characters for Street Fighter™ X Tekken™ on PlayStation®Vita system
London, UK – February 21, 2012 – Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today revealed exciting long term plans and activities for the Street Fighter™ franchise, including the upcoming Street Fighter™ X Tekken™ game. 2012, the Year of the Dragon, marks a major milestone for one of the premiere video game franchises of all time. As a way of celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Street Fighter, Capcom plans to give back to its loyal fan base by hosting numerous international tournaments honouring the series. Additionally, the company will be releasing Street Fighter X Tekken, an all-new standalone product that features action-packed long-term DLC support, new characters on the PS®Vita and even an upcoming fighting competition reality show!
Releasing soon on the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft®, Street Fighter X Tekken is the newest addition to the Street Fighter family and will rely heavily on player feedback as a way to enhance and evolve the experience. Exciting new features and additions will be consistently introduced, allowing fans of the game to tap into a wide variety of robust Downloadable Content (DLC) options that will breathe new life into the product. The retail version of Street Fighter X Tekken will be the only disc-based version consumers will need to own and all future upgrades will come from post-launch DLC.
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Street Fighter and the upcoming new product launch, Capcom is in the process of organizing a series of tournaments throughout the year in locations across the globe, providing cash and prizes totalling over $500,000. These high-stakes tournaments feature the upcoming Street Fighter X Tekken game, in addition to previous titles from the highly-acclaimed Street Fighter catalogue. More details on the specific territories and tournament structure will be coming soon.
In order to provide the most intense fighting experience possible, the Street Fighter X Tekken development team is working closely with the tournament community and organizers to offer a post-launch game update that will help streamline the Gem selection process for competitive players. A customized gameplay experience is at the heart of the new game, and the innovative Gem system adds an extra level of depth and provides a pioneering way to experience fighting games.
Also joining in on the 25th Anniversary festivities, 12 new fan-favourite Street Fighter X Tekken characters have been selected to be introduced in the PS Vita system version of the game when it releases later this year. Fighting their way into the handheld world of Street Fighter X Tekken, from the Street Fighter side… Blanka, Cody, Dudley, Elena, Guy and Sakura will be playable and from Tekken…, Alisa Bosconovitch, Bryan Fury, Christie Monteiro, Jack, Lars Alexandersson and Lei Wulong will all make their debut on the PS Vita system.
Additionally, Capcom is excited to be collaborating with iPlayWinner and Team Sp00ky to deliver the first ever fighting-game-centered internet reality show, completely LIVE. “Cross Assault” begins airing on February 22, 2012 and will feature 10 players (split between Team Street Fighter and Team Tekken) who compete for pride, fame and a grand prize of $25,000. Competing on Capcom’s next premier fighting game, Street Fighter X Tekken, players will receive strategic advice from the coaches and must work together as a team to find the most effective strategies to win team challenges, or risk elimination. Capcom is working closely with IGN to bring this innovative fighting game experience to fans everywhere. Tune in to http://www.ign.com/crossassault/ and… FIGHT!
Street Fighter X Tekken launches in North America on March 6, 2012 and March 9, 2012 in Europe. A PC version of Street Fighter X Tekken is due for release on May 11, 2012 and the PS Vita system version is slated for this autumn. More details on the PC and PS Vita system versions will be announced in the near future.
For more information about Street Fighter X Tekken, please visit www.capcomeuro-press.com and http://www.capcom-unity.com.[/details]
One of these days, we all need to put our collective heads together and start our own fake fighting game rumor. That Day 1 DLC list was almost EVERYWHERE, even on otherwise reputable sites. Imagine what we could do if we collectively came up with a rumor and spread it around places like neoGAF and eventhubs.
That’s pretty much what happened with the first “leaked list” that came out. Someone posted a picture of their friends’ wish list for the game, even made the comment “Hey, here’s who my buddy wants in the game, he made this pic, what do you guys think?” Two pages later, on the same god damn thread, people started calling it a leaked list, and in two days it was on every other forum, usually credited to Lupinko.
Sora from Kingdom Hearts and Sonic the Hedgehog are day one DLC my dad who works for Capcom told me.
Shadow as an alternate costume, confirmed.
I still don’t know why they gave Sora that Shadow costume, It looks terrible. But Riku Sonic is pure swag.
-_-’ Omg, do people just ignore the fact they said they won’t re-release the game again. w/e forget it, keep thinking that…
“omg are you serious capcom does this shit all the time. gonna wait for super ultra mega awesome street fighter x tekken dark resurrection turbo hd remix arcade edition”
Seriously, stop. This shit isn’t funny. A lot of games has updates/re-releases (hi pokemon), why are people acting like Capcom is the only one that does it and act like it’s always a bad thing?
I know that feeling. 
Perhaps his DLC status will keep his numbers down…?
Capcom has already stated they won’t reissue another disc for the game.
But that doesn’t mean they’re not gonna stop updating this shit. In fact, it’s better for them to offer “updates” as DLC, because they won’t have disc costs, or suffer the effects of used sales. AND they can always charge it at full price.
can someone confirm to me that you can’t tag cancel a fireball? can you only tag cancel a physical hit? or are you only allowed to tag cancel a fireball when it hits your opponent (or they block it)?
This is the rumors thread pal, best asking in the general thread or the Ryu thread for that.
This time they said there were doing DLC updates instead of re-releases “this time” I’m going to hold them to that, I didn’t say other companies like THQ, EA, Square, Namco, ect. didn’t do the same BS, but this is not about them. I’m holding them to their word in that all future updates will be in the form of DLC, period
you can take you however you want but I not neglecting the practices of other companies >_>’
Man, it’s been contentious all over the place the past couple days.
I… I feel I missed something. We were talking about how rumors get started, right? o_O
Either way, I agree, it’s not as though Capcom’s the only company that does that. Really, they get a bad rep for it from a few incidents that are always recalled… namely, the obscene amount of SFII udpates/releases, and more recently of course, MvC3.
But true, it’s not like other companies are innocent of that, and Pokemon is a good example. (aaaaand I buy every expansion, lol)
In any case, it’s the first time I can recall that Capcom’s gone on record as saying they are completely dedicated to a game not getting a disc-based “update” and fully committing to an AE-style update if necessary, which is a good sign.
Because they shot themselves in the foot with the amount of SF2 releases they did, automatically simple minded people associate Capcom and Street Fighter with excessive expansions.
And then when they pulled the UMvC3 deal mostly everyone completely lost hope that they had changed (Which they have, anyway, but you get my point)
Well I would only really complain if the updates are rushed or too expensive, but they are not. “Super” was a really nice update to Street Fighter 4 and “Ultimate” was also excellent for Marvel, so I’m fine with updates.
Besides, which game doesn’t get any addons?
“Hello everyone! We are here to announce Street Fighter X Tekken Super Special Awesome Edition, coming to an arcade machine near you!”
“But you said-”
“We said no more disc based updates!”
“rageface”
While I’m glad that they are supposedly going to do DLC updates only, I just hope that doesn’t mean that us PC users will have to wait 2+ months for the update like they did with AE 2012 and now SF X Tekken. I mean, I’m a patient person, but sometimes it bothers me that I have to wait 2+ months while my friends are busy practicing with the new version. :shake:
Also, anyone else think that Bryan’s Super Art is going to involve a machine gun? I think it’s about time he used one outside of cutscenes…
I was thinking he’d do the whole “mounted on you, punching your face until it sounds like meat” thing he does for his win pose in Tekken.
But they gave MarDOOK that.
Actually, I wonder what else he could even have for his super art. Cross art would be easy enough, but his super is going to either be a lame set of punches, or some epic beat down.
Whatever it is, if he doesn’t end it that laugh taunt, it’s a fail.