Game Rant are reporting that Street Fighter V is on the way and it'll be for the PS4 and PC only.

 

Quote

Industry insiders and long-time fighter sim fans have been speculating about Street Fighter V for years. It’s been about six years since the last numbered installment in the franchise and many enthusiasts are starting to believe those rumors that the next game would take ten years to arrive. Despite the long wait, it always seemed like a safe bet that when the next round of Street Fighter combat began, it would be available on all the current-gen platforms. If a new teaser trailer turns out to be legit, then that might not be the case after all…

 

According to NeoGAF users, the above teaser leaked on YouTube last night for a brief period before being set to private. A few fans managed to pull the trailer down and repost it, but we expect those will be pulled down in the near future, as well. The post wasn’t clear about whether the original video showed up on Capcom’s site, or somewhere else. That makes it a little suspicious, but the footage and branding all seem high quality and believable.

 

The trailer uses Explosions in the Sky post-rock to get fans feeling nostalgic and sappy, while showing footage from many of the games and tournaments from the franchise’s 25 plus years of brawling. Footage from the new game is shown throughout the tail end of the montage (which we’ve captured in high-res screen shots below), but maybe even more interesting than that is the tagline under the game’s logo…

 

 

Quote

“Exclusively on PS4 and PC”

 

The current-gen hadoukens look appropriately epic in the teaser, but many Xbox fans out there are probably too distracted by the exclusivity to even admire the new footage. Street Fighter games haven’t always arrived on all available platforms, but 2009′s installment hit PS3 and Xbox 360 after the arcade and made its way to PCs just a few months later. With PlayStation pushing hard for exclusive games and content over the last year to gain an edge in the console war, stealing the entire Street Fighter console audience seems like a major win.

 

The teaser doesn’t suggest that this is a timed exclusive for PS4 and PCs, so (if the teaser is indeed real) we expect to hear confirmation that an Xbox One port is off the table. Although we would expect to see the reveal of a game this big at a big event like E3 or PAX Prime, it might be possible that the trailer was meant to be revealed this weekend at PSX. The weekend event celebrates 20 years of PlayStation and does seem like a good venue to debut an exciting new exclusive for the console.

 

[update: Trailer was taken down but we found another, shortened version which focuses on the gameplay tease instead of the documentary clips.]

 

Are you excited about the unofficial confirmation of Street Fighter V or just disappointed that it won’t be available on the Xbox One? Let us know in the comments.

I'm not a big fan of fighting games so this doesn't upset me too much but I can see a lot of people being bothered by it who own X-Box's.

 

Capcom used to be a PS exclusive developer pretty much back in the PSOne era, it wasn't until the end of the Dreamcast's and n64 lifespans that they cranked out Resident Evil games and such for other consoles outside of Sony.

 

To be fair though Dead Rising, a Capcom game, is X-Box only so maybe this is just a trade off due to that or maybe money talked.

It's also possibly down to how the XBone is seen in Japan.

See I was also thinking that as well - Dead Rising is a game that does well in the US and European markets, markets where people buy X-Box One games but Street Fighter, whilst it had a huge following over here, also had to compete with the likes of Killer Instinct, Tekken, KoF and of course Mortal Kombat which you could argue sells more in the US or Europe then Street Fighter.

 

But in Japan it is really Tekken or Street Fighter that sells well so if you have a game that will sell well in Japan and quite well in America and Europe and you want to maximise your profit then yeah, you're gonna release the game on a console that sells in all of those markets, that being the PS4 - which I believe has sold more units in the US and Europe then the X-Box One anyway and not bother throwing development money at a game that won't sell as well on another platform.

 

Question is, given the continued poor performance of the One in Japan (although to be fair, Microsoft have never shifted consoles over there) will this affect future releases from coming to the console from the likes of Square Enix, Namco, Sega and Capcom, the big Japanese game developers?

It's a safe bet that jrpgs like final fantasy will likely remain on playstation. I am slightly surprised by this, since the current generations of consoles are all based around the amd jaguar, which should make crossplatform development a lot easier, at least according to the lead developer where I work. I don't think the competition from other games in the west would really affect sales, but they must have done the math and figured most of their target market have both consoles anyway.