Mad Catz announces they are currently working on official fighting pads for the game and would be released same day as the game itself.

Current rumored release date for the game is March 31, 2016 based on an accidental SFV merchandise leak by Capcom last month.

http://www.destructoid.com/the-next-...v-291491.phtml

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Like the redesign. Didn't even notice the white hair until second viewing.

Becoming more and more clear that experience with the last game isn't going to mean squat.

Like SFII, 3rd Strike, and Alpha 3 - SF4 may well survive as its own thing once SFV drops. It won't pull the same numbers online but it can survive if the gameplay is altered enough.

As well as the roster, which I'm hoping for, but not entirely expecting.

New faces.

And Karin.

Apparently will be coming in March 2016 and launch with 16 characters.

Part of a longer interview that goes more in detail about Capcom's though process and thinking for developing SF V.

http://www.destructoid.com/combofien...y-293717.phtml

ugh 16

Here we go again. 12 more in Super Street Fighter 5, so on and so forth. Not that I blame them, cause fuck, we all keep buying the shit.

But 16? Fucking 4 had 25 in the vanilla version. Either quite a few of the original World Warriors are going to be absent, or this is going to be a very "been there, done that" roster.

I think 16 is a nice round number.

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Chun Li with a Killer Instinct like 20 hit combo. Also, god damn @ the quarter rotation for kicks instead of mashing.

I am expecting Ryu's parry to make a comeback at competitions, which is ALWAYS entertaining.

Played my fair share of Chun Li in 4, but never mained her. That might change now.

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My girl.

pffft

Birdie is very good.

Capcom recently broke down the details for the upcoming beta with the biggest being no local play supported since they only want to test out their netcode and servers. Also no PC beta since its a PS4 exclusive event.

4 playable fighters at the start with another 2 added in later. 3 playable stages overall. After character selection, everything gets handled through the training mode for matches.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ing-beta-test/

Sources have confirmed to Siliconera that Alex and Urien from Street Fighter III will be playable characters in Street Fighter V as well. Look out for the two to be announced at some point in the future.

I have a friend who's gonna freak for Alex.

Hopefully these guys are reliable:

Earlier, Siliconera reported that Alex and Urien from Street Fighter III would be part of the playable roster in Street Fighter V. Now, we can confirm two more characters: Karin Kanzuki and R. Mika from the Alpha series.

Didn't think R Mika would see the light of day again

Please Karin don't be untrue. I miss her.

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Calling it now, the guy at the end is Zangief with a huge makeover. The nose, the mouth, the jaw, the angry look.
He's lost the beard but grown out his hair. He'll have some kind of supernatural or Akumalike vibe to him.

Can't wait for Super Street Fighter V to hit Xbox One and give me a reason to buy the damn thing.

I also believed Super SFV would be multiplatform, but now I'm not so sure.

The face at the end may not be Honda. Dreads don't seem like a sumo thing. Could be whoever the New Zealand stage represents.

Apparently SFII was Nintendo exclusive but SUPER SFII was different so got on multiple platforms.

I don't know if a case from over 20yrs ago is applicable here. lol

Don't go breaking my heart.

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Drakul/Kalyx duet incoming.

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Doesn't matter though, it's not happening:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbo.../1100-6427987/

Of course they'll say that. They need to push the PS4 version. It happens all the time. Something is exclusive and will never ever ever go on a rival platform, no matter what.
Then the exclusivity deal ends and they release it on rival platforms, claiming it is due to "fan demand".

Yes, I refuse to climb out of denial.

Nah, they'd say things like "Street Fighter V is PS4 exclusive" if that were the case. These guys are masters of double speak, they wouldn't say something that specific unless it was the case. Another huge hint is that Sony have been up front with this we things, like only "First on Playsfwtion" for FF7, so that ones timed.

Sony are funding the development, probably due to the shit shape Capcom are in right now.

If it's genuinely 100% PS4 only, then that sucks and it's stupid cutting away a massive chunk of the players.

I'll be sitting it out. I can't play Street Fighter on the PS4s cramped mess of a gamepad.

Yeah, it always sucks, but we probably wouldn't need to have this conversation if Capcom didn't mess up for quite a few years. Expect this happening a lot with them, MS did the same with Dead Rising because Capcom didn't want to take the financial risk so they're gambling on those F2P games. Sounds like they're going to do DMC5, hopefully that's not console manufacturer funded.

In happier news, I'm really digging the re-designs. SF4 did feel like all the old characters were just SF2 but in 3D. Do we know if this is set after SF4 or after SF3? I'm thinking 3 at this point.

2 weeks until the beta!

EDIT: Listening to GT Time and on the talk about the beta, it's launching with 4 characters then Birdie and Cammy will be added later to test the content delivery system which is apparently there to stop the need for a Super version ever.... I'll believe that when I see it.