Ono rules out Asura & Bad Box Art Mega Man as fifth Street Fighter 4 character, talking with EVO players about game balance

Posted by Jonathan 'Catalyst' Grey • July 14, 2013 at 10:31 a.m. PDT • Comments: 224

Capcom will be making an official announcement later in the year as to who the 5th character is that's joining the Street Fighter 4 franchise. Yesterday, Capcom announced that Rolento, Elena, Hugo and Poison would be added to the lineup, but they said there's one more who's never been playable in a Street Fighter game before.

Today, Capcom's Yoshinori Ono ruled out two candidates, Asura from Asura's Wrath and Bad Box Art Mega Man, who was a PS3 exclusive character in Street Fighter X Tekken.

OK Fat MM doesnt join to SF. RT @rafaelmartines Please promise me that the new character is not Fat Mega Man
— Yoshinori Ono (@Yoshi_OnoChin) July 14, 2013

Asura!! Unfortunately, he isnt. :) RT @RandomReduX any chance the new SFIV character will be Asura, since Ryu and Akuma showed up in his gam
— Yoshinori Ono (@Yoshi_OnoChin) July 14, 2013

Ono also said he's been enjoying talking to players at EVO about the balance of games like SSF4 AE v2012 and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

I could talk to a lot of SF/MvC series players about detail of tunning at this EVO time. Its very good experience.
— Yoshinori Ono (@Yoshi_OnoChin) July 14, 2013

Tip from Neoxon, Ice9 and Zombiebrian.