Thanks to The Stinger Report we learn that a certain magazine called Edge is running a feature on the new Street Fighter IV, even gracing the cover with either Ken and Ryu. There’s only one little problem that we learn about straight from the Stinger – they intentionally decided to avoiding mentioning the arcade release deciding to focus solely on the console release. Now you may think that a game mag should go out of it’s way to mention all of the versions coming out as a service to it’s readers but as we know certain anti-coin-op biases run deep in many circles and on top of that a lot of mainstream game news resources don’t seem to worry as much about what may be a good service to their readers as it may be to their advertisers. And to top it off let’s be honest, if you want to play a real fighter then the best place to play it is at the arcade and not with a flimsy dual analog controller by yourself at home.
Now I won’t single out just Edge here as I know they are not the only ones guilty of ignoring the arcade version, others have been doing it as well. Let’s just hope that Capcom decides to speak up a little about the arcade version as time goes on and not leave all the torch carrying to us arcade fans.
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Before Future Publishing comes round my office and burns the building down, I need to clarify I have not read the feature yet (please someone read it and tell us ALL the details), I was just given a lead by our source that they had stayed away from going into detail about the games arcade plans and focus on consumer.
I’ve got the magazine, I’ll post up details of the article very soon.