Street Fighter V DLC characters can be earned by playing the game

[darkknightkryta]

Mr Puggsly said:

darkknightkryta said:

Street Fighter 4 didn't launch with 25 characters.  It launched with 20 characters; 18 of them were selectable (Seth and Gouken couldn't be played with).  The rest of the characters were added to the console port 6 months later.

I think you're comparing the original Arcade release of SFIV to SFV. But obviously most people didn't play SFIV until it came to consoles.

Hence, most people didn't play SFIV with only 18 characters. Either way, 16 characters for SFV at launch is fine assuming new characters come relatively soon.

"Most"?  Street Fighter 4 is mostly played at the arcades in Japan.  I'm not sure if you're watching Evo, but the Japanese players destroyed the competition.  I personally played Street Fighter 4 first at one of the only 2 arcades left in the Toronto area.  But yes I am comparing the arcade release to Street Fighter 5 cause this technically is the "arcade" release.  It's just a technicallity that there isn't one.  A shame too cause of what I mentioned in Japan.