Street Fighter IV was a damn good seller. 4 & 3 millions for each version. No doubt it will be pushing even more dat PS4 Worldwide domination.

This SFV news makes the Tomb Raider thing look so small in comparison.

Should come to Xbox in the form of SSFV.

Get over it? o_O

What are you having a meltdown or something? I mean seriously. I don't even participate in this fanboy wars anymore... :/

Ah awesome! We are cool which makes me a happy :D

Carry on~!  

Last time I heard Capcom didn't even have money to fund SF V.

So? Street Fighter isn't exactly a very budget intensive game, or at least shouldn't be. Also, Capcom is making a killing in Japan over Monster Hunter.

Sony isn't in the best shape to be moneyhatting right now either.

Never played Persona 4.  Watched one battle over a friends house years ago.  First experience (a good one) was with Persona 3 (PS2 rerelease on PSN) when it was on sale for dirt cheap.  Will get Ultimax when it's dropped to a reasonable price.

Anyway... I about the clone characters.  Ken plays differently from Ryu.  In SFIII, Ken and Chun-Li were the top best characters.  Sometimes Ken ends up being really good.  Sometimes Ryu ends up on the opposite side of a tier list.  They play differently.  But, they are still clones.  Therefore, Gouken, who is Ryu's trainer, despite having different supers and an alternate version of the same specials, he too, is a clone, as is Akuma, Sakura, Evil Ryu and Oni.

Seth, is still a clone.  Not in the traditional sense, but in the sense that he borrows pre-existing attacks from other characters.  He's an amalgam.  That's why I call him a clone.  I know he has Sonic Booms, Shoryuken, and the Tanden Engine.  What I mean is that he is a copy in some form.  Just like Dural, in a sense, from Virtua Fighter.

So, in the end, it's about 7 of 12?  Close enough to half.  I was going off the top of my head.  Honestly I stopped playing Street Fighter before Ultra came out.

You know who else is a clone? Kunimitsu in Tekken Tag Tournament 2.  She plays absolutely nothing like Yoshimitsu.  They share a lot of the same attacks, and yes, even some of their same shared attacks have totally different commands, for the simple fact that She is Right handed and Yoshimitsu is left handed. Those two are hands down the most varied clones ever in a fighting game, but, they are still clones.

Tiger Kneeing with C. Viper is specifically why I think she should come back.  her design isn't bad, and she's not a character for me.  I hate having to do so much rapid-tiger-kneeing.  That's why I stay away from using Cable in MvC2.  I'm not going through the trouble of trying to tiger-knee all the time.  I'd have to practice it a million times just to get used to doing it so much.  But, I know other people would like that.

Abel, of all the new characters I don't like in SFIV, is the one I hate least.  Juri isn't just my favorite, she's my favorite SF character.  Period.  She has got to be in the next game or not getting it will be an easier decision to make.  Unless they come up with another new character that I like.

Some characters, though, like Ryu, or Chun-Li... It depends on the game.  Sometimes, I hate the character.  Other times, I like them.  I thought Ryu was a likable character in SFIII.  I hated him in every other game he's been in.  With Chun-Li, unless it's Street Fighter III or IV.  I hate her too. We'll see how things go in SFV.

About SFxT.  I don't understand.  Capcom knows exactly what killed that game.  It had nothing but SFIV characters, apart from a small few.  I think they know they can't just do SFII all over again for a 3rd time.  I didn't like that when we first got SFIV.  Certainly wont like that it's going to be the same thing again.

But, look at Street Fighter III: Third Strike, and it's urban style the game had.  SFV's logo looks like a spray painting, of sorts.  The art style itself is a lot more "street" and seems closer to III.

So, I think we're going to get a few characters back.  Alex will return, no doubt and I wouldn't be surprised to see Sean come back..  Alex was a cool character.  But, I'm not the person that uses grappler characters.  I would expect Sean, Alex, and Hugo to return, though.  I know it's a stretch going off the style of the logo and grit of the game but, I don't see them not coming back when it seems obvious the timeline takes place after SFIII.  

Which means no Bision! Yes!!.... Yes!!....

Hopefully Oro comes back too.

Yes, Street Fighter V is a budget intensive game. 

Even though SF isn't budget intensive, Capcom still didn't have money to fund it:

http://gaminrealm.com/2013/10/20/capcom-cant-make-next-gen-fighter/

As for Sony they have more than enough resources to fund SF V, but whether they should have spent their money somewhere else is their decision.

And Sony is hemoragging money in many of its departments. Sony has some money, yes, and it is their decision on where they should spend it. Personally I believe investing in a new IP would be ideal, but Sony apparently disagrees.

If Capcom didn't have the budget last October, they should have waited to see the sales on Monster Hunter this year. They certainly have some cash now.

Either way, great aquisition by Sony. Not one that I personally agree with or support, but hopefully it will pay dividends for them.