Comments on: Hey, What Happened To Street Fighter IV PC?

By: Eury

Eury — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:37:35 +0000

hey man I don’t know why, Alec Meer said, “but it’d certainly be fascinating to see how a high-profile fighting game does fit this old box of ours”. Old box? Are you kiddung me? I have a dual-core 2.6Ghz processor and an Nvidia 9800GT in this box of mine!!!! And it’s way better than an Xbox 360 and PS3 combined!!! But yeah I will pay for Street Fighter 4 when it comes out for PC as long as it’s a Games for Windows Live game and hopefully it offers cross-platform play PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: SF_fan_since92

SF_fan_since92 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:43:23 +0000

Yep well looks like they pushed release date from Jun 2, 2009 to Q3/2009.
Now 100% gonna be pirating it.
great work Capcom!

By: pkt-zer0

pkt-zer0 — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:44:37 +0000

Update time! SF4 may be coming out this summer, and may be bundled with a MadCatz controller.

By: born2expire

born2expire — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:02:15 +0000

Listen you ninnies! Playing fighting games on a keyboard is like playing FPS games on a gamepad, sure it can be done and some of you will claim to be superior at it. But when it all comes down to it, the ONLY way to play Street Fighter is with a ARCADE stick, not a gamepad or keyboard! Jeez.

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:13:16 +0000

For the controller “debates” either get an arcade stick, or a SEGA Saturn USB pad (CAPCOM modelled their custom SF controllers for PS2 after it, but they’re not as good). Anything else is settling for less (usually way less).

By: SuperNashwan

SuperNashwan — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:30:58 +0000

If any developer tells you the PC version is taking longer because it takes longer to get it working on PC they are talking balls. I bet that the game already runs on PC
The game has been running on PC for as long as it’s been in arcades, what with the arcade unit being a PC and all.

By: mashakos

mashakos — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:20:38 +0000

A Capcom employee mentioned “somewhere on the internets” that the PC version was delayed due to the console platforms being Capcom’s main priority. *sniff*

At least I will get to pwn SF n00bs at 2560×1600 on my beast of a PC >D

… although, most PC beat ‘em up fans will probably be tournament contenders with 10,000+ hours of practice on emu roms…

By: Tetracell

Tetracell — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:14:23 +0000

Yeah that’ll show ‘em. Keep up the good work!

By: SF_FAN_SINCE92

SF_FAN_SINCE92 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:10:04 +0000

“A PC version is still in the works, but will be released at a later time following Capcom’s recent policy of delaying PC releases to fight piracy.”

Well thats nice CAPCOM, good work. I had money put away for SF4 for PC, but seeing how they treat PC gamers as second class citizens they can suck on a goat and they aint getting my money now because of this forced delay.
Now instead ill check the torrents close to release date.
idiots.

By: Gorgeras

Gorgeras — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:58:17 +0000

SF4 on PC will be a bubbling bucket of concentrated evil.

Whilst I’d normally think a bucket of concentrated evil would be pretty awesome and open up new fields of science in meta physics and chemistry, I wouldn’t want to drink it.

If I am wrong, I will buy you all a big bucket of chicken(concentrated GOOD).

By: Tetracell

Tetracell — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:47:09 +0000

Well that’s fair, but aside from looking like trash (which can be fixed with a load of mods) RE4 was still fun to play. DMC4 is very good on the PC, I haven’t played Lost Planet aside from the demo and it seemed like it was well done. So i’d expect that SF4 will be too.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:46:22 +0000

The problem with the RE4 port (which wasn’t done by Capcom – it was done by Ubisoft, who royally messed it up) wasn’t in the controls, as you could just plug in a gamepad and play it just like the originals. No, the problem with it far more heinous than that.

They went and ported the PS2 version of the game, which has markedly weaker graphics than the Gamecube (and later Wii) versions. And on top of that? They actually managed to break the entire lighting engine, leaving some environments fullbright, and generally making things look even worse.

Later patches and fan-projects improved the graphics, but the damage was done.

Thank eff that Capcom are doing their ports in-house now. Lost Planet (despite being anathema to PC gamers, apparently) was a perfect port. As was Devil May Cry 4 (despite whining from people who haven’t played a 3d brawler in their lives and want to use the mouse to play EVERYTHING), and RE5, SF4 and (hopefully) LP2 look due to get similarly top-notch adaptations.