SSFIV AE characters for consoles likely

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 24 February, 2011

Ono all but confirms Evil Ryu, Oni as DLC.

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has all but confirmed that the characters introduced by the Japan-only Arcade Edition of Super Street Fighter IV will be made available to download to the home console version.

Confusion was sparked by an Andriasang report this morning in which Ono was quoted as saying there are no plans to bring Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition to home consoles.

Why? Because Arcade Edition has some characters who were purposely made strong, upsetting the balance of the game. The Arcade Edition introduced Yun, Yang, Evil Ryu and Oni.

Some have taken Ono's comments to mean the four characters won't be offered as DLC, but the eccentric Japanese developer took to Twitter today to tease an announcement soon after the March launch of the Nintendo 3DS.

"Plz wait it after release 3DS in US/Euro !! ;D" was Ono's typically enthusiastic response to a call for SSFIV AE console news from one of his followers.

"I'll try not to disappoint every time! Is it right? ;)" he responded when asked whether the story that SSFIV won't be DLC was true.

Then, "I make someone less unhappy! Everything's going to be all right!"

And, finally, "Over my dead body!! It all right! ;D" in response to the question: "is it true no AE edition on console?"

Looks like it's a case of when, not if, then.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 1 year ago

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  • KujiGhost #1 1 year ago

    I'll say this for Ono, he's very good with his fans. His Twitter account is always entertaining.

  • menage #2 1 year ago

    This wasn't news back wehn they announced them in the first place. Making DLC money is Capcoms main business nowadays.

  • FuzzyDuck #3 1 year ago

    Considering how much they charge for costumes, what the hell are they gonna charge for new characters?

    I love Capcom dearly, but their DLC very rarely represents value for money.

  • tachometer #4 1 year ago

    When is Streetfighter V out?

  • kitsuneyo #5 1 year ago

    @FuzzyDuck - It's a good job their games (or at least SSF4) do represent great value for money then. The DLC is optional.

  • carrotcake #6 1 year ago

    Good, I like having a reason to go back to a game I finished playing. Not exactly an exciting roster update though with two brothers that look pretty much the same and two overpowered super versions of existing characters. The ultimate roster update will be... Street Fighter x Tekken... adding a bunch of Tekken characters into a Street Fighter game, I can't wait for that.

  • stevetuck #7 1 year ago

    Ono being the epic troll as normal

  • Alipan #8 1 year ago

    Im sure this will happen but the question is how much will they cost?

    Im guessing 560msp per character (same as Blazblue).

  • kinky_mong #9 1 year ago

    Is there much different with these characters, or are they just Shotos with different colour pallettes?

  • menage #10 1 year ago

    Yeah, I can't get to excited with another Ryu either.

    Especially since there's lots of other chara's too pick from.

  • FuzzyDuck #11 1 year ago

    @kitsuneyo

    Yeah, that is a fair point, Super launched at a fantastic price point alright. I only paid about €22 for it (from a bricks'n'mortar too).

  • coolbritannia #12 1 year ago

    Good, just bought this 10 min ago for £10 new!

  • CaoSlayer #13 1 year ago

    Considering how my character lost at the changes lottery, don't rush it.

  • FenderMaster #14 1 year ago

    With the exception of the absolutely horrible El Fuerte, SFIV introduced some really interesting new characters, Abel, Gouken, C Viper, Juri and Rufus especially, and the SFIII characters were nice additions too...

    But Evil Ryu? Did the game really need another shoto? We aleady have Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Dan, Sakura and arguably Sagat...

    At least Oni Akuma looks a little more interesting.

    And yes, SSFIV was great value, i walked into gamestop on launch day and paid just 30 euros for it...

    haven't seen new releases that cheap since late in the PS2 cycle!
    if the characters are reasonably priced, i.e. less than 12 Euro for all 4 new characters it might just be worth buying, any more than that is surprise unwanted sex.
    Edited by FenderMaster at 24/02/11 @ 22:01