Street Fighter IV to be Released Around February 2009
Street Fighter IV for the consoles will be hitting store shelves around the time the New Street Fighter movie debuts February 27, 2009. This is coming from Patrick Ailello, the producer on the upcoming movie Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, while sitting down with Gamedaily.
Capcom is releasing Street Fighter IV in 2009, which is the 20th anniversary of the game. The film and game release dates will coincide, but I’m not certain how much of the game will coincide with the story because ours is a very partitioned off origin story of the Street Fighter universe. So the release dates will coincide, elements between the two will coincide, but in terms of them relating to each other perfectly, I don’t believe that’s the case.
This makes perfect sense for Capcom. It’ll be the first true sequel in almost 11 years for the famous fighter, and the first SF movie since the 1994 debacle with Jean-Claude Van Damme. If Capcom wants the most hype they can get, why not release both at the same time. It’s a perfect storm.
We’re not sure how the movie is going to turn out (we don’t have our hopes up), but the game from what we’ve played, is worth marking the date down on your calendar.
