Yoshinori Ono: Super Street Fighter IV will not have an arcade version

Street Fighter has long been a favorite in the arcades, with the best players in the world performing their best with the arcade stick over the console controller. Even with console versions of past iterations, many would still opt to buy joysticks to play in consoles. Unfortunately, it looks like people will be stuck with doing that in Super Street Fighter IV for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions since it has been confirmed: there won’t be an arcade version.

Street Fighter has long been a favorite in the arcades, with the best players in the world performing their best with the arcade stick over the console controller. Even with console versions of past iterations, many would still opt to buy joysticks to play in consoles. Unfortunately, it looks like people will be stuck with doing that in Super Street Fighter IV for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions since it has been confirmed: there won’t be an arcade version.

Through an interview with GameReactor, producer Yoshinori Ono himself made the confirmation:

So, unfortunately, IÂ’m sorry to say to arcade fans out there: there wonÂ’t be an arcade version of this. I think a lot of people were kind of requesting an arcade update. I know that, in some parts of the world, it doesnÂ’t really matter if thereÂ’s an arcade version or not. But certainly in Japan and the rest of Asia and some parts of the Oceania, thereÂ’s still a lot of people playing in arcades. So, IÂ’m sorry to disappoint them but this time its going to be Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 only affair.

So that’s not a maybe, it’s a definite “no.” Can’t quite compare playing online with being in the actual arcades, but for Super Street Fighter IV, that’s gonna be as close as it gets.

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Via GameReactor