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Street Fighter II not hitting XBL in Q2?

Capcom's brawler appears to be on the verge of missing its anticipated release window for third time.

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When Capcom first announced in January that it was bringing Street Fighter II' Hyper Fighting to the Xbox 360, it said the game would be available "in early 2006." Later that month, the publisher adjusted that time frame to "Q1 2006." Late last month, when GameSpot previewed the title, Capcom then indicated a Q2 release for the game.

With time rapidly running short in the second quarter of the year, GameSpot asked Capcom if the game's release window had been pushed back yet again. A representative replied, "Capcom has not yet announced a specific release date or pricing for this game."

Earlier this week, some Street Fighter fans were buzzing over a July 30 release date for the game listed on the official Australian Xbox Web site, but that entry has since been changed to read simply "2006." The American Xbox Web site is a little more precise at the moment, giving a "Summer 2006" date for the game. This year, the last day of summer is September 23.

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Well that's what ya get when ya only have one dude working on the game. At least have 5 peeps working on SFII Capcom!!! Geesh

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How difficult is it to put a 10 year old game on the internet?!

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That stinks I so wanted to get it but I guess I can wait a little longer.

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i dont like the street fighters

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This is funny this is 10 year old game. Late....... the PS3 that is still not out, and you ppl are crying about a 10 year old game and a free Prey download. Do you guys have any idea how long they have been working on that title? I hope it comes out before the release of the game, I enjoy trying it out first. The longer the delay the more comfortable I will be in thinking it is close r to the final code.

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This big a deal over Street Fighter 2 No Doubt a great game. But it should be one of many on 360 you have plenty of others to spend your time on. I don't own a 360 and im not sre I ever will

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this is starting to annoy me....I can't wait to whoop people in this damn thing, i will just have to gather my Hadou until then. I hope the world is prepared for the whooping i am going to bestow upon thou, muhahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!

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Of course we can play this game on other systems, but being ablet to own you jokers on live is the big draw of this title, which is why they are taking their time to get the lag issues under control....

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this is p*ssin me off, i just wanna whoop everybody's arse's, is that so bad!?

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seriously, if u want to play an arcade perfect version with online play...just get KAWAKS and dl the the friggin ROM

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I'm sick of MS anyways. There freakin system dies on me and they have the nerve to charge me 129 dollars for repairs? That is ridiculous. I'm tired of this crap and I'm tired of waiting for them to do stuff. They still haven't sent me my overnight box so I could send my 360 to them for repairs. Whatever man, PS3 all the way still for me and Nintendo effing rocks my sox.

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Capcom blows!!!

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dayang, how many features are they putting in this game? this game better be 100% lag free.

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It's funny to see that one of the most anticipated games on 360 is a game that I play on the SNES, lol

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Boo, you can do this with mame and kaillera netplay!

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I have a feeling that Microsoft is trying to heavily boost trhe XBL shortly b4 the PS3. It is safely trying to save the biggest guns for later.

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As long as they get the speed of the online portion right they can take all the time they need..

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i have it on my psp haha

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Wow, that's pretty pitiful.

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I really really getting fed up with MS crap, I am really sick of the darn delay's can't they do anything on time!!!!!!!

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for an old game its takin forever.... this should have just been almost a port.

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It's taking a pretty long time to change a (really) old game into and Xbox Live arcade title.

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wow. this is getting very patheic. THIS IS A 2-D FIGHTER THAT IS OVER TEN YEARS OLD!!!! WTF IS TAKING SO LONG?? I DON'T EVEN WANNA PLAY THIS GAME BUT DAMN. I KNOW ONLINE PLAY TAKES A WHILE BUT NOT THIS LONG. I'm curious to how many devlopers are working on this. Seems like 1 or 2 max.

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it will STILL be worth the wait whenever it does come out.

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i saved enough money for a 360 ....screw it. ill just put it towards pot cause at least i could smoke that and then play SF on snes and not have to wait like a dumba$$ for it to be re-released on a system that has problem releasing 15 year old ports. congratulations microsoft. good business practice - you guys taking notes from Molyneux?

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There are a lot of people that are waiting for this game.... I think that Capcom should accelerate a little bit the process of finishing the port of the game. However it also should be that Capcom and Microsoft are still making some arrangements. Either way, let's hope that they can put the game in XBox Live soon.

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Come on MS... ...I love my 360, but you cannot keep dealing out dissapointment with missing demos and pushed back arcade games. Either don't tell us it is coming... or get it on Marketplace when you say you will.

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If I want to play Street Fighter, I'll do it on my SNES, Genesis, or Playstation 2. The XBox controller sucks for fighting games. I feel bad for anyone playing it on Xbox.

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It's going to Wii. That's the only reason I can think of... cuz seriously, what's taking so long ?

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Looks like Street Fighter fans just got Hyper Combo F#$ked

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i wish theyd quit telling us when theyre going to release and then bumping it. this is turning into the Halo 2 release date issue. they should wait to tell us when it is coming out when they are 100% sure.

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Makes me wonder why I even bothered signing up for a Gold account in the first place.

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microsoft is doing enough to make itself look bad right now...i mean, jeez. do these guys want to lose the console war or what?

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I would assume that the reason for its possible new delay would be getting it to run better on the XBL code, but who knows. Still looking forward to it tho, its been years since I played this game.

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I'll wait. I'm waiting for so much right now, I don't care... I don't have a SNES, and I've played SF maybe 10 minutes in total, so I'm hyped.

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I've been playing since Pong and how many delays has the game industry made us endure? It's not like this is anything new. BILLWAZOO Just taking cheap shots that were available, bro. 360 rocks.

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"denawayne BILLWAZOO And you're the guy hyped about PS3 right? What a joke" No, actually im a proud XBOX 360 owner. Im just realistic.

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Truly bad business for Capcom thus far. Making XB360 look bad and XBLMP look worse. With all this delay, they could at least release an offline demo version to nurish the 1,000's of fans that purchased the 360 just for this title.

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BILLWAZOO And you're the guy hyped about PS3 right? What a joke

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It's just a 15 year old game. How about getting excited over something new?

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It just doesn't make sense, its a 15yr old game and CAPCOM has put SFII online (in japan) before, I don't understand the tardiness of this game, or any logical reason why its being held up for so long.

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You guys have to realize that your all cannon fodder for Microsoft. They dont care if your pissed the prey demo isnt out, or SF2 isnt on XBL marketplace. If anything its just churning the wheels of the hype machine. You can complain on message boards all you want but everyone (especially Microsoft) knows that you're gonna be the first person to line up and buy this stuff.

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Street Fighter 2 is a great game, but I cannot understand why it is taking so long to bring this onto Xbox Live?? I mean this is not Oblivion or anything its just a small 2D fighter from the past!

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so much for te wave of te future

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Yeah, I'll play on LIVE using my SNES. This game IS a big deal and will top the LIVE charts when it is released.

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ohhhh .HELL, NO! we want SFII NOW!!!

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"they can't even port this over to the Live Arcade and they've ported this to almost EVERY platform possible..." Porting the game over to the 360 is trivial -- Capcom did so long, long ago. The difficult part is trying to make it playable online. Now, for slow games (first person shooters, DoA, Virtua Fighter), this isn't a huge deal, either. However, Street Fighter demands 1/60th of a second response times throughout. This is worse on Hyperfighting, which allows for speeding the game up even more. The low speed of light makes it impossible to play high-level SF with players physically in much different locations. Capcom's task is to bend the laws of physics enough to create a game that somehow enables online gameplay nonetheless. To do this, they need to test and test and test to find the maximum distance for players, then push this distance by working with Microsoft to optimize Xbox Live. For the record, the SNES port of HF was rather lackluster. In fact, to this day we haven't seen a good port of HF, though the DC, PS2 and Xbox versions of Super Turbo were all very good.

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