I really wanted to go to the 1st Kansai Regional Qualifiers… It seems like the Kyushu Regional Qualifier last week was also incredible! This week it’s the Chubu Qualifiers! Everyone, do your best!
Hello, this is Tsukamoto!

This time, I’d like to talk about some things that all our players have been concerned about - move adjustments/tweaking and the alternate costumes. I’ll be joined by director Mr. Okada, and the battle player Mr. Tamamura.

– What kind of adjustments are being made this time around for SSFIV?

Okada:
First, we decided to stick with the idea of keeping whatever was possible in SFIV intact. For balancing a fighting game, there are two different possibilities - make the moves of the stronger characters less effective (nerf) or to make the moves of the weaker characters more effective (buff). Going the route of buffing the weaker characters moves makes for more difficult adjustments, but as we didn’t want our players to feel stressed out, we decided to go with buffing the weaker characters for SSFIV.

– Will we still be able to do combos and such that were possible in SFIV?  Read more...

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Check out these two pictures taken from the Taipei Game show held over the last week-end:

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A recently posted article from a Chinese website talking about the Taipei video games show that was held over the week-end, states that the rest of the SSF4 characters will be revealed either in this week’s famitsu or next week. The Taipei gameshow saw a presentation of Super Street Fighter by game producer yoshinori ono.

From a Neo gaf post stating the highlights of the Chinese article:

source (in Chinese) http://gnn.gamer.com.tw/5/42295.html
Yoshinori Ono went to the Taipei game show 2010
(Taipei = capital city of Taiwan)
here are some interest stuff in the article

- Yoshinori Ono has brought the latest ver of the game to the show
- his digital camera has been stolen …….
- 31 characters have been announced, the remained characters will been revealed in this week’s (or next week’s) Famitsu
- the Asia version will be released in April 27, 2010, 1 day earlier than in Japan

and to conclude this post, check out the following SSF4 match video from the SSF4 presentation by Ono san:

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Hello everyone!
There were a lot of people at the Kansai Qualifer last week, and it was really exciting! Oh, and someone who had come from Hiroshima gave me some momiji manju (meat buns). I was really happy. And they were very delicious! Thanks for the treat.

Well, we’re at the point where its really cold, with some snowfall even. In this cold weather, as I was checking the DVD menus and booklets that come with the Collectors Package, I was able to get some good leaked info from the e-Capcom staff Ms. Kana Urazawa and Mr. Mini Suke!

It seems as though the details for the e-Capcom version have been decided! …And as they were literally just decided not to long ago, unfortunately I have no samples to show you. But for those of you who have been holding off on making your e-Capcom reservation in lieu of more info, I wanted to get this info to you as quickly as possible!

First let’s get the big stuff out of the way! There will be 4 packages available for sale on the e-Capcom website.

1. Regular Edition
Only the SSFIV Software! 4,990 Yen! (Tax Incl)  Read more...

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Hey everyone, it’s been awhile! This is Tsukamoto.
Last week our Dev Blog took a break as Ms. Shiozawa’s blog featured a special update announcing the sale date! After watching the anime trailer, Juri’s way cool closing line of “This won’t hurt a bit” has been stuck in my head.
Well then, this week I’d like to talk with designer Mr. Kamei about the character designs. What kind of episodes took place during the development of Street Fighter IV?

– First off, tell us about how the character designs for SFIV were decided on.

Kamei:
I spoke about this a little in the 2nd blog entry, but when deciding the direction of the SFIV characters there were quite a bit of twists and turns. In trying to determine their shape, with the 3D body, silhouette, and volume, we came up with many different variations before deciding. For example, we had a really thin Ryu, a larger Ryu, a Ryu with a big body but small head…in the end, we felt that the current model was his best look in 3D. But before we got to that point, there were over 10 different variations of Ryu.

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Hello everyone!
At the Tohoku Qualifiers, it all came down to the Chiba Team vs the Kanagawa Team. It was a battle of desire and regrets, but in the end Mago pulled it out and everyone got really into it! And when they let me say some words in closing, everyone was really welcoming to me, so I was very happy. Thank you very much!

Well then, on Tuesday we announced the sale date, the special features as well as the Collectors Package. We got a lot of comments, such as “The sale date is too far away!”, “Why only for Xbox 360?” and “Sell the soundtrack!”, so thank you very much! I think I would like to address some of these issues in another Q&A post sometime soon.

On Tuesday’s post, I mentioned that there would be bonuses for ordering through e-Capcom…and it seems that you can already make your pre-orders!
While the details haven’t quite been decided, we’re also getting ahead of ourselves! Both myself and Lil’ Ono have been making various suggestions, such as a special DVD, or a command/combo sheet, as bonuses for pre-ordering. We’re hoping for something that the players really want or will feel that is useful. I think its going to be something good, so you’d better get your pre-order in now.  Read more...

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I had the chance to talk to Seth Killian about the recently announced SSF4 Juri anime and i was able to ask him a couple of questions about the movie as well as the potential of a street Fighter Anime TV series. Check out what killian had to say:

Strugler: could you elaborate on what shizowa said, is this a juri movie? or is it a ssf4 anime movie? Shizowa san said the movie is exclusive to xbox360 is this true or is it just a mistranslation?

Seth Killian: Not sure what the difference btw “Juri movie” and “SSFIV movie” is, exactly, but I would say it’s an SSFIV movie that focuses on Juri, as she is the main character focus of SSFIV. As for exclusivity, Shiozawa’s statements refer only to the Japanese territory.  No decisions have been made for other regions.

Strugler: What are the chances of a street fighter anime tv series ?

Seth Killian: an anime TV series isn’t strictly up to Capcom–we don’t produce tv series, we just license our characters to other groups who produce them.  I’m certain if there were a good opportunity with the right group, Capcom would consider it.  Read more...

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