Not excited.
For one, this whole "we may say something later, so stay tuned!" schtick is so god damned patronizing it makes me want to boycott Capcom forever. That T. Hawk just happens to be semi-visible on the screen there, to me, is no accident. It's an obvious ploy to build hype, and it pisses me off that Capcom is treating us like a bunch of ****ing puppies, trying to make us yap and wag our little tails.
For another, T. Hawk and Dee Jay were already confirmed as having almost made it into SFIV. Seeing them now, and not other characters such as Makoto or Dudley, just says that they finally got around to finishing the characters they'd originally planned to release anway. Big deal.
On top of that, you guys have probably hit the nail on the head - or are at least close. Capcom is probably not going to be even moderately generous with these characters. If they can be sold as DLC, or if Capcom can otherwise use DLC to fleece us, then they will.
But, even supposing T. Hawk and Dee Jay are available in SSFIV along with the rest of the new characters at no extra cost, I'm still not thrilled. Capcom had decades of Street Fighter know-how to draw on in creating SFIV, yet it still came out with a laundry list of screw-ups. Guile's Flash Kick often fails to hit airborne opponents. Honda's EX headbutt doesn't absorb fireballs, but Blanka's roll gets through them completely untouched. Fei Long's Ultra isn't guaranteed even if the first hit connects clean. Gief's PPP lariat beats sweeps. Sagat has boosted HP and stun... I supposed to "offset" his godlike offense. The list could go on. These are not the kinds of oversights that should require years, months, weeks, or even days of playtesting to fish out. These things are immediately obvious, so, to put it bluntly, I fully expect Capcom to screw the pooch on SSFIV. I hope I am proven wrong in the end (it's the only reason I keep playing IV), but I don't think I will be.
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