Street Fighter IV coming to iPhone ... why are you laughing?

by Justin McElroy on Feb 15th 2010 1:11PM

No, no, seriously. Street Fighter IV, the game, is actually going to come to Apple's portable, with somewhat scaled-down models lifted directly from its console big brother. Each character in the game also has their complete moveset, which you'll pull off with customizable on-screen virtual stick and buttons. In addition to warming up in Dojo Mode, you'll also be able to play against a friend via Bluetooth.

Though Capcom's touting a large roster, all we know at this point is that it will include Ken and Ryu, as seen above. While we're curious about how Capcom will fill the ranks, what we really want to know is how they'll make it more enjoyable than it appears at first blush, which is not at all enjoyable.

Source

Tags: Apple, capcom, fighting, iPod, street-fighter, street-fighter-iv

Reader Comments (69)

iPhone is more powerful than the Wii – CONFIRMED!

who are you and what did you do with the real samfish?????

It's the same ol' Samfish, just very sarcastic and pessimistic.

The Wii doesn't get a port of SF4, but the iDevices do? A platform that has ZERO buttons and less power than the PSP gets a game said to be too demanding for the Wii.

It's mind-boggling. Not that I would've wanted a Wii version (already owning it on 360 and PC), as I much prefer TvC to SF4 anyways.

LMFAO!!! No buttons on a button masher? LOL

Umm

street fighter isn't a button masher

uhhh depending on who you have....it IS a button masher....true some people are hard to pull moves off with, but there is a reason why you have people that run with Ken & Ryu online a lot....

@Shiftplusone. Yeah, yeah, we all know that it is a chess-like turn based strategy game. Cheesus Crust attempted a sarcasm.

I must be misunderstanding the term button masher here, because if you went into SF4 and just starting mashing buttons you wouldn't win a single match out of 100 with someone that knew what they were doing.

I think his definition of button masher is a game that uses buttons that you must "mash" with precision timing and cyborg-like execution.

Via bluetooth? So no playing over the net via wi-fi?

So porting this to the PSP shouldn't be that difficult then?

tons of great fighters are on the psp, thats one of the genres it excels in.

not bringing to FULL version to the psp is just laziness.

Yeah, it'll be very easy if Capcom intends to lose a lot of money on the investment

this will be awful with a virtual stick. I can barely land most of the move set with a proper controller

Same here, I grew up playing games like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat and Samurai Shodown on arcades, I can't do any special moves on D-pad. On iPhone it's even more ridiculous.

might as well used the motion sensor to throw an hadouken by swining your phone foward instead of those buttons XD

Whatever happened to the DS version? I think I remember hearing something about it.

This is the epitome of everything that is wrong with most iPhone games. Cram a game designed for something else on the iPhone. Anything that needs a virtual joystick or D-pad has failed.

gta is pretty awesome on the iphone.

ive played a solid 9 hours of GTA

Space Ace and Dragon's Lair of excellent on the iPhone. =P

Also that Zenonia game. The Legend of Zelda clone. The virtual controls are fantastic on that.

I didn't know "fantastic" was the new "horrible".

smh....people are going to flock to this and give Steve Jobs something to tout about when he unveils the next iPhone in a couple of months....

he is actually does me a favor on that though.

I got the very first version iPhone. I have been thinking about upgrading all the time. But when the new model came, I have a policy to wait 3 months before purchase. By that time, there always was a new model announced. So I waited to get the newest model 3 months after release. It's been like this over and over and over again. LOL

Heck what do I care?
I have wi-fi both at work and at home.
I always have either my PSP or DSi with me.
I always have my digi cam in my car.
If it's for phone alone, the first model does it fantastically.

if all you want is a phone, a six year old $25 "dumb" phone is going to be smaller and more reliable..

usually im enthusiastic about iphone ports... this one.. ehhh

I love my iPhone and most of the games I have purchased for it. The best games are the ones unique or specially suited to the platform. Games that try to cram another experience onto the tiny touch screen are mediocre at best.

What games have you purchased that you especially enjoy?

I agree. My favorite iPhone games right now are Orbital, Canabalt, Doodle Jump, and Skee-ball.

The last three games I bought were all very addictive and well worth the money:

1) Hook Champ
2) Sword and Poker
3) Space Miner: Space Ore Blast (This one is as polished as any PSP or DS game)

Past favorites include:

GeoDefense, Galcon, GloBall, I Dig It, Jet Cat Stunts

I don't understand why a company can't come out a with a standard controller for the ipod/iphone so game devs don't have to use the touch screen.

(I wish that company would be apple but I doubt they would do it)

you mean like a 150$ external add on?? no thanks.

Try to picture an iPhone with a joystick connected to it.

It's not much of a portable platform anymore, is it?

Because things like the DS and PSP already exist. You want more depth in your controls beyond just a touch screen, play games on another platform, instead of trying to turn the iPhone into a PSP or something.

This is what bugs me about a lot of developers. They can apparently down-port their project to anything (especially iPhone and PSP), but when it comes to Nintendo platforms, they can't be bothered.

The PSP one is especially perplexing, because the whole "but the software won't sell" argument doesn't seem to apply... on a platform with worse software sales.

As someone who only owns a Wii but is also a big fan of 2-D fighters, I have to say Tatsunoko vs Capcom more than makes up for the lack of Street Fighter 4. Granted, I realize that that isn't your point, but I'm just throwing it out there.

I'm not complaining about the lack of software from a personal perspective, certainly. I would rather take TvC (or any Versus game) over SFIV (or any Street Fighter). I'm just pointing out the interesting train of thought that leads to iPhone and PSP somehow being ahead of Wii when it comes to porting concerns.

Except most games don't come to the psp. Basically, It isn't worth the cost of porting to Nintendo platforms.

Certainly not most games, but what about Tekken 6, Soul Calibur: BD, Assassin's Creed II (to a certain extent), Army of 2, Dante's Inferno

I think you're missing the market element, Khan. I think the Wii is skipped lots of times because the developers already feel they have a console version they are happy with on the 360 and/or PS3. When talking about the PSP or iPhone you're really talking about different markets.

Maybe if people bought some 3rd party non-carnival games on the Wii everyone once in a while, they'd consider it.

@vcize: if third parties made games other than terrible ports and carnival games, their games would sell. as much as it pains me to say it, arcade style games and quirky off the wall games like no more heroes, zack and wiki, and madworld wouldnt sell millions on ANY platform.

look at call of duty and a proper resident evil that isnt being remade for the 10th time, they sold millions. red steel and umbrella chronicles were flukes because red steel was crap and umbrella chronicles is a light gun game.. a genre thats never been known to sell millions.

name 5 games that arent niche or poorly made products for the wii that are third party.. and ill agree.

the only word that can sum up my feelings on this is

WINFAIL!

that word is win.

I really wish they went all-out 2D for this handheld version of the Hadoken-simulator. :'3

Instead of making the game on the Wii or another gaming system, they make it for the iphone.

wtf capcom. its just about money now?

The whole gaming industry is getting more so about money it seems than before, I dunno.

its always been about the money

The gaming industry is a business, it's always about money. They don't make games out of the kindness of their hearts for free. They can probably make an easier profit on this than a Wii version. Just do a quick port to the iPhone. SF4 is a big brand name in the sea of random iPhone games. The price will be low and it'll jump to the top of the iPhone charts. And they'll get a lot of impulse purchases.

If they do it for the Wii, they'll just get a ton of Wii fanboys talkin online about how they want hardcore games and how they're waiting to dust off their Wii's. The game would come out and most of those fanboys will be all talk and not purchase the game. And I'm a Wii Fanboy myself and see this all the time in the message boards.

| 1 | 2 | Most Recent | Next 50 Comments

Sorry, you must be logged in to leave a comment.

Breaking News

The most popular posts
in the last 7 days

Vita 'UMD Passport' won't be offered in US 218 comments
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning review: A tempting fate 152 comments
David Jaffe leaves Eat Sleep Play, layoffs hit developer [Update] 107 comments
Don't call it a remake: Final Fantasy X is a 'remaster,' to be clear 95 comments
Battleship movie adapted into FPS by Double Helix 93 comments

Street Fighter IV coming to iPhone ... why are you laughing?

Reader Comments (69)

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:13PM samfish said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:51PM CJLopez said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 8:31PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:14PM Cheesus Crust said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:15PM shiftplusone said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:20PM Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:25PM Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:26PM Vcize said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 3:13PM Morisato13 said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:15PM Vcize said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:16PM RKN said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:19PM BrianH said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 5:04PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:18PM nanuet said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:44PM jocaju said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:21PM TypeF said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:22PM bongoes said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:22PM JokerSmilez said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:58PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:04PM arrness PSN chsowls Steam dcdani said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:25PM whylekat said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:33PM whylekat said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:37PM samfish said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:22PM Chris DPSN AggieCEO XBLThe Aggi said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 3:36PM Korwyn said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 4:50PM Bolts said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:23PM arrness PSN chsowls Steam dcdani said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:24PM thinkthis said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:29PM whylekat said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:39PM JokerSmilez said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:42PM thinkthis said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:24PM DanB91 said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:55PM juggalotusmx said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:33PM KazamaSogetsu said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:43PM JokerSmilez said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:24PM Mr Khan said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:33PM Dopple Boppler said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:36PM Mr Khan said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:39PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:58PM Mr Khan said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:07PM Vidikron said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:10PM Vcize said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 3:17PM shouryuuken said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:25PM Istari Spartan said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:43PM cbarrentos said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:37PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:41PM (Unverified) said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:51PM RKN said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 1:53PM CJLopez said

Posted: Feb 15th 2010 2:03PM rpny said

Info

Description

MSRP

Release Date

Genre

Developer

Publisher

Rating

Breaking News

Kotick: New Call of Duty planned for 2012, Diablo 3 still launching this year [Update: Diablo 3 in Q2!]

Featured Stories

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier brings information warfare to the front

Rhythm Heaven Fever review: Crazy into you

Remedy not done with Alan Wake

The most popular postsin the last 7 days

Engadget

TUAW

Massively

WoW

The most popular posts
in the last 7 days