Street Fighter and Resi 5 are Home-bound

By Oli Welsh Published 3 February, 2009

Costumes, game launching, Africa.

Capcom Japan has announced plans to support PlayStation Home with Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5 content, including costumes and a themed game space.

Famitsu (interpreted by Joystiq) has the news and some shots, showing some striking authentic Street Fighter costumes and an impressive recreation of Resident Evil 5's African village setting for Home avatars to explore.

Street Fighter IV will also get a post-release patch adding support for Home's game launcher, so players will be able to jump straight into SFIV bouts from the virtual world.

As with the recent SF outfits for LittleBigPlanet, the costumes will be for sale from the PSN store - along with, we assume, the decorative Street Fighter and Resident Evil figurines shown in the shots. The Resident Evil 5 zone, meanwhile, will host themed events.

Whether this content will be coming to the US and European version of Home is unconfirmed, but we'd be very surprised if it didn't.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Dizzy #1 3 years ago

    Oh dear.

  • Rash' #2 3 years ago

    You got to give to capcom this gen. They've had the most productive, risk-reward strategy of all the third parties and so far it's paying dividends for them.

  • b00n #3 3 years ago

    I really wonder why people put up with having to pay for this kind of content..

  • Rash' #4 3 years ago

    "Oh dear"

    Typically provocative Dizzy...

  • Mr_Dodger #5 3 years ago

    "Whether this content will be coming to the US and European version of Home is unconfirmed, but we'd be very surprised if it didn't."

    Unlike, say, Uncharted (US only) or Siren (JP only) game areas.

    I could understand this kind of segregation if a game was only released in that region, but where they are released everywhere why limit the content for the fans of those games?

  • redneon Verified Programmer, SUMO Digital #6 3 years ago

    Is this really in the MMO section? Home? MMO? Really?

  • NotSoSlim #7 3 years ago

    Think thats the definition of a fanboy is. As well as being a complete moron

    Fanboy-ism is a disease plain and simple
    Edited by 2 at 03/02/09 @ 11:58

  • penhalion #8 3 years ago

    @Dizzy
    Oh dear

    You stole my line! Maybe I should have patented it.....

  • penhalion #9 3 years ago

    @NickyB0y

    How can gamers be happy. What you are seeing is a major backlash against overhyped games. Gamers have bought so many hyped up pieces of crap that they genuinely don't believe or trust anything coming out of a reviewer or developers mouth anymore.

    Look on any forum for any games website and you'll see people cursing and rubbishing every new game out there. Developer says game A has X, Y and Z and the now cynical gamers think "So that means it has neither feature X, Y or Z but, instead has a half arsed attempt at those features"

    The Japanese seem to be the first to be turning away from hyped up games and sales over there are falling steadily. I'm guessing the americans will be next, lastly followed by the british. Don't get me wrong though. Good games will sell through word of mouth as they always have. It's just that so called AAA titles (baring a new gears or Halo) will find that there isn't that automatic rush out and buy that used to exist.

  • Agent_Llama #10 3 years ago

    Nice idea, hope they expand it to other games. Of course, I'd prefer it if PSN was fixed in the first place so I could actually log onto it.

  • menage #11 3 years ago

    Not one that hates DLC.

    But those LBP costumes are 3 euro's too expensive

  • HermitArcader #12 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:17:39 22-12-2011

  • Widge #13 3 years ago

    Someone on the forum has mentioned that playing the game will unlock stuff in home too... for the non-spendy among us.

  • GamesConnoisseur #14 3 years ago

    !! Now I m gonna choose PS3 version of RE5 purely because of Home contents!!!!

    /Coughs

  • GreyBeard #15 3 years ago

    Using Home as an extension of the whole trophy system seems like the best use for the thing imho. Sony really need to think hard and long about what sort of content to add, as it really lacks anything compelling to draw people in right now.

    Ultimately the idea of promotional sub-areas can only be justifiable if people are enouraged to use the service, and right now it seems like there's a lack of impetus to try it out. The sad part is that like Sony's whole online system, if you added all the bits from the different territorial zones together it'd be a lot more impressive than what any individual zone has on offer.

    To tell the truth I'm at a loss as to why Sony have taken such a fractured approach when surely the most significant advantage of net-based promotion/commerce is its internationalism by default.

  • Mr-Bozzey #16 3 years ago

    "Is it just me or do gamers bitch about everything to do with gaming?. I mean is there no such thing as happiness anymore?. It seems everything is a major fucking problem, a game getting 9.5 instead of 10, a tree texture looking better on a another console. A demo getting released a day early in another country.

    I love gaming but cannot stand the people that play the games, miserable cunts the lot of them. "

    @ nickyb0y


    if i was to meet you in a pub i would buy you a pint for that comment because its sooo true

    you just took everything i feel about most gamers and summed it up better than me.

  • Slipstream #17 3 years ago

    That's wonderful news.
    Capcom's intentions toward Sony are still good.

  • michaelius #18 3 years ago

    I hope this patch will be a bit faster than Bionic Commando trophies :)

  • Marshall2008 #19 3 years ago

    Does anyone actually use home? I wandered about in it for 20 mins near the end of the Beta and have had no inclination to return.

    BTW is the KZ2 demo up yet?

  • FenderMaster #20 3 years ago

    RE 5 demo up on the US store, loving it!!

  • wanderingkid #21 3 years ago

    This news makes me happy : )