Street Fighter IV PC Release Date Update

Street Fighter IV, which was released by Capcom on consoles this past February, will be made available for the PC some time this summer. Capcom VP Christian Svensson said a new bundled version of the game might be released as well which could include Mad Catz control pads.

This installment of the popular fighting franchise has presumably been doing well, as Capcom Japan said it shipped 2 million units worldwide of the console versions.

When asked for more detail concerning the PC version's staggered release date, Svensson said that the game simply isn't finished yet, according to videogamer.com. "To put things into perspective, the Street Fighter IV team is working on two things right now," said Svensson. "They're finishing the PC SKU, and people are like, well the arcade was the PC, how hard can it be? Well we had all of these additions for the console version in terms of content that didn't exist on the PC. All of that needs to be rolled back in."

Svensson continued, "We have to do an online integration with an online service. I won't discuss which one yet because it hasn't been announced yet. Obviously the arcade had no online. Here we have an online integration that has to be done. We have to optimise the game for a variety of configurations, both up and down, so that it looks pretty on things that are more powerful than the arcade system and it runs well and at 60 frames per second on things that are considerably less powerful, so we sell to more than the top two per cent of the market."

As for why the PC version wasn't released by Capcom at the same time as the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions, "The answer is the unfortunate financial realities of making our numbers within certain financial years or quarters drives when we have to actually get some stuff out of the door. The other part of this is while the PC is an important part of our business today, the forecast does not justify holding back the lion share of the revenues that comes from consoles to make it happen."

For more on Street Fighter IV, head on over to our object page and the review of the console version.

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