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Capcom has plans for Street Fighter's 25th anniversary

Posted by Catalyst — March 26, 2011 at 9:04 a.m. PDT

A blurb on the PaulGaleNetwork talks briefly about Capcom's plans for Street Fighter's 25th anniversary, which is coming up in 2012, it reads:

Finally, I had to mention that Street Fighter turns 25 in 2012, and ask if we could expect Street Fighter 5 or was Street Fighter X Tekken going to be all? After all, for the series’ 15th birthday we got the Anniversary Collection and then we got Street Fighter IV for the 20th anniversary. Although I didn’t get anything solid, at least I was told that “Street Fighter is as important as Mega Man and they’re both turning 25″…so my guess is that something is up!

Although the site mentions Street Fighter 5, that does seem very unlikely at this point, as Ono's team is currently hard at work with Street Fighter X Tekken and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition.

Also, with the DLC release of SSF4 Arcade Edition content being all but confirmed at this point, the Street Fighter development team probably has their hands very full at the moment.

Still, it's Street Fighter's 25th anniversary, and it sounds like Capcom will do something to commemorate the event.

Comments

NEWkidCJ said on March 26, 2011 at 9:08 a.m.

Street Fighter 5? Yea too soon

shano said on March 26, 2011 at 9:17 a.m.

Yeah releasing SF5 on it's 25th anniversary would be too soon seeing as we have had SF4 in 2009, SSF4 in 2010, MvC3 in 2011, SSF4AE in 2011 & SFxT coming in 2012 this is just my opinion though.

Chaide said on March 26, 2011 at 9:20 a.m.

It is way too soon for Street Fighter 5. I'd like to see more content added to the games they've already released than a sequel for the sake of a sequel.

PC users are still waiting on Super, AE hasn't even been released on consoles yet, and as mentioned in the article, there are just too many other side projects being developed to tide us over.

Ah well, let them do what they want with it. I just think SF4 in its current state has a lot of room to grow.

Nikon said on March 26, 2011 at 9:24 a.m.

I would like to see something announced for their 25th anniversary. Hell it doesn't even have to be a new game, maybe a wicked stick in partner with Madcatz or something. There are so many pros and cons with having few or a lot of fight titles. One of the ones I'm not looking forward is liking one of them and having everyone jump to another game and forget about that one. MvC3 stole Supers thunder but just left enough where it's still not impossible to find endless battles with decent players. I guess we will see what happens with this double edged sword.

caruga said on March 26, 2011 at 9:28 a.m.

"Coming up" in "2012"? I love these filler news articles...

CrossoverFighterRyu93 said on March 26, 2011 at 9:30 a.m.

Too soon, i mean the Street Fighter Franchise came back like, 2009 with an animated movie and america made that cr@p movie, then wanted to do super it up last year. Now 3Ds this year....Also Arcade Edition AND Street Fighter X Tekken. Yeah seriously take some time making it a better fighting game or something. Street Fighter 5!? C'mon why not take another few years to develop....maybe in 3 or 5 years or something to make it an even better Street Fighter than the 4th one.

gtfopanda said on March 26, 2011 at 9:33 a.m.

I hope SF5 comes out for the 30th anniversary or something VERY far. We don't need any more game at this point, in a couple years we'll still be playing SF4 (whichever version), MvC3, 3SO and SFxT.

That's just too much.

WorstGiefEVER said on March 26, 2011 at 9:39 a.m.

Evil Sakura and Crack Pipe Ken DLC, for every current-gen fighting game

ABJitz said on March 26, 2011 at 9:49 a.m.

SF5? yeah a little too soon IMO. Knowing Capcom tho, it's gonna be big. Capcom brought back SF; with SF4, SSF4, SSF4:AE(hopefully for console soon)! Big titles too such as MVC3 and the upcoming SF X Tekken! Whatever the 25th anniversary surprise it is, It's gonna be sickk!

pinoy929 said on March 26, 2011 at 9:49 a.m.

They should have a massive tourney of just the Street Fighter franchise, including their update versions (SF1, SF2->Champion->Hyper->Super->etc, SFAlpha1/2/3, SF3NG->DI->3S, SF4->Super->AE).

#10

duckmouth said on March 26, 2011 at 9:49 a.m.

@WorstGiefEVER

Ha, I think I'd actually breach my strict no-shoto policy if they released Crack Pipe Ken!

#11

SpicyBurrito said on March 26, 2011 at 9:54 a.m.

An HD version of SF2 CE maybe?

#12

MALDA said on March 26, 2011 at 10:02 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

#13

MALDA said on March 26, 2011 at 10:03 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

#14

J said on March 26, 2011 at 10:10 a.m.

Gief, don't forget Civilized Blanka and PMS Makoto.

#15

Kawalorn said on March 26, 2011 at 10:18 a.m.

@15

Maybe not 1 but a remix of Alpha 3 would be VERY appreciated. :)

#16

NEWkidCJ said on March 26, 2011 at 10:22 a.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbY5ha... Meanwhile on Cross Counter

#17

BisonBetterBeGoodInSSF4 said on March 26, 2011 at 10:59 a.m.

they should all give us SSF$ AE DLC for free as a nice birthday present lmao

#18

GodPride said on March 26, 2011 at 11:54 a.m.

It's too early for SF5, me thinks.

#19

kara said on March 26, 2011 at 12:04 p.m.

3s OE is good enough for me

#20

mo123 said on March 26, 2011 at 12:25 p.m.

I think there are 10 alpha characters and 11 sf3 characters missing from SSF4 at this point. Add them all for a grand total of 60 fighters, all wonderfully balanced of course, add some stages, and charge $100 for this ultimate edition. Now that would be an aniversery.

PS - special dlc fighters: Tired Hunchback Ryu and World Renowned Chef Akuma.

#21

cvs said on March 26, 2011 at 12:38 p.m.

Too bad the world ends in 2012. :(

#22

mo123 said on March 26, 2011 at 12:55 p.m.

We have until Dec 21 2012, so capcom better get this out before then...

Of course, if the Mayans really knew the future, wouldn't they still be around?

...and really good at fighting games?

#23

Batsu said on March 26, 2011 at 2:06 p.m.

How about a anime of SFIII? Been waiting for that.

#24

Raven said on March 26, 2011 at 6:03 p.m.

Waaaaaay too soon for SF5. Capcom needs to maximize profits from AE, MvC3, SFxTekken, and 3rd Strike: Online Edition before SF5 even comes to fruition.

Though doing something would be nice, I'd like 2 - 4 extra characters in AE, with maybe three new stages. I know it's work, but hey, we're paying for DLC, right? xD

#25

Sektah84 said on March 26, 2011 at 7:18 p.m.

A sf game with every sf character something like tekken tag.

#26

cvs said on March 26, 2011 at 7:32 p.m.

There is a game like that,it's called m.u.g.e.n.

#27

Sektah84 said on March 26, 2011 at 8:37 p.m.

^ that piece of fan made crap doesn't count lol

#28

xRELLIKx said on March 27, 2011 at 5:56 p.m.

Here's hoping for an xbla/psn alpha 3 + or something....id be very dissapointed if it was another re-release of sf2....-_-