Capcom Announcement Set for Monday is Reportedly Street Fighter VI - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 19 February 2022 / 4,559 Views
Capcom this past week launched a new countdown website that ends on Monday, February 21 at 1:00 am ET / 6:00 am GMT. Other than the countdown itself the website offers no other information on what game it could possibly be for.
VentureBeat's Jeff Grubb on the latest episode of GrubbSnax said he has heard the countdown is for an official announcement of Street Fighter VI.
"Everybody should expect Street Fighter VI, because that's what I have heard," said Grubb.
The last entry in the fighting series, Street Fighter V, released for the PlayStation 4 and PC in February 2016, while the Arcade Edition released for the same platforms in January 2018, and the Champion Edition in February 2020.
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Hopefully they don't release a bare bones games like the original Street Fighter 5 was. It got better over the years, but was missing so many things when it first came out.
Capcom's finances are much, much more solid now than they were in 2013. They were also constantly the target of criticism for on-disc DLC. They're really one of the best comeback stories of the past few years, so SFVI should be a better game out of the gate.
The announcement is that they have been acquired by Embracer.
You heard it here first!
I hope but am not optimistic that this game will be multi platform.
I wouldn't be surprised if Sony makes an effort to keep it exclusive.
Capcom had $150 million in the bank at one point. So let that show how bad financially they were in. Now they're doing great, so no need to have external funds.
From that massive Capcom leak that happened we know it's coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series. What we don't know is if between that time to now if Sony got a timed exclusive deal with them.
All i wanted was a different game that is all
Underwhelming if true. I mean, I guess many fans are excited, but on a personal level this is one of their least interesting IP's.
Hope it’s not exclusive. This was the one PS4 game I wanted on Xbox, and I hate the DS controllers so I never picked it up on PS4 despite playing a ton of SFIV.
Of course, SFV ended up being a pretty meh game with lots of issues, so who knows.
At my "old" age I ave to say that a new Street Fighter game is one of the only new releases that still gets me excited. Street Fighter just has such a deep meaning for myself. Street Fighter II was such a cultural phenomenon back in the early 90', together with my happy and sorrowless life I had back then (and before the age of internet) it just will always have a special place in my heart (by the way, my life is still happy and sorrowless but I'm older and see things differently). Street Fighter III was then mostly for the hardcore SF-players and Street Fighter IV was just the prefect comeback. The Street Fighter Alpha Series in-between was also a nice twist. I didn't play much of Street Fighter 5, not because I don't like it, it's just that the hype for me went away a bit.
Nevertheless, I'm excited and pumped for Street Fighter 6! Bring it on!
I think they'll announce a next-gen update for 5 along with a debut for 6. Seems like 6 should still be at least a year and a half away, considering the negative news that was reported last year about it's development. I don't see a way this is prepared for a better launch compared to 5 if it launches this year.
SF6 makes sene given they seem to release a new iteration of the series at the start of a new console generation. I wonder if this one will be a PS exclusive though.
Street Fighter V was one of my least played in the series. The game needing constant updates and having long load times made playing it a slog. The story mode was crap, made me miss each character having a cool ending like SFIV. How things were unlocked just felt like a cash grab. The game is solid, but everything around it was a mess.
Wonder if it might have a Switch version? Capcom's had a lot of success on the system and Ps5's are not super common in Japan.
Somebody's salty, judging from the downvotes.
