Street Fighter 4!?!?!?*%?!?!!?

[Jalapeño]

So, apparantly, Capcom will be debuting Street Fighter 4 at Jamma or something like that in Japan. Going to be running on the AtomisWave hardware instead of CPS4 (does that mean we'll see emulation faster?)

Anyway:

There are already a few things known about SF4.

1) It will in fact be 2D

2) Ryu will be the only (classic) returning character

3) They have begun to work on it

4) The game will come out when Capcom celbrates SF's 20th Anniversary, which wont be till 2007 or 2008 (depending if you go by the US or Japanese anniversary of SF)

All of these things have either been stated in interviews, or at shows, by various Capcom employees or represenitives.

Rumors:

- The 2D Animation will rival most animated shows or movies

- Mel Masters (Ken' son) will make an appearence

- Based on a leaked concept sketch, Ryu will have a new look (3 diffrient versions of Ryu appeared in the sketch, all had diffrient gis, but they all had an unshaved [but not a beard] look to them)

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I read "Street Fighter 4" in production, and my brain went *pop*.

The only downside I see is that it will come out in arcades in 2008. So it will be quite a while before we get a homeversion.