Street Fighter III For PlayStation 2 Announced!!!

[KingJ2002]

Capcom's Street Fighter III 3rd Strike is on its way to PlayStation 2, Famitsu Weekly reports this week. The most recent game in its venerable 2D fighting series -- which still isn't all that recent, having come to the Dreamcast in 2000 -- will see release in Japan for PS2 some time this year.

Today's announcement makes no specific mention of support for online fighting in the PS2 game. Capcom included online play in the Japanese PS2 version of Capcom Vs. SNK 2, and in the Dreamcast version of 3rd Strike as well, although the DC version's online servers closed down last fall.

So far, Capcom's latest initiative for online PlayStation 2 gaming, the Multi-Matching Broad Band service launched last fall in conjunction with telecommunications developer KDDI, has failed to measure up to expectations. Sales of the first MMBB title, Bio-Hazard Outbreak, were lower than Capcom expected, although the soon-to-debut Monster Hunter may do better.

As Capcom releases more details on PlayStation 2 3rd Strike, we'll continue to pass them on.

- 1Up.com

[blackfaded]

Finally, SF3 playable on a good controller.

[Link]

eh? This is OLD news.

[fuzzymoochicken]

I can't stand the ps d-pad... it hardly even sticks out of the controller, is innacurate and kinda cramps my hands...

anyhow, why shouldn't they include online play? if they can do it with c rap like auto modestella, then they should that with sf3 too...

[Cygoku]

NOOO.........doing this only devalue the DC SFIII:TS. Damn you Capcom. Why can you be like Konami.

Cygoku

[KingJ2002]

eh? This is OLD news.

ehh... you must not know me

im jking2002 now KingJ2002 and i know everything... alot of things you hear now is old to me. I know some things im not allowed to say until someone esle does. I posted this news the same day it was dropped and i put it on the ps2 boards were it havent been posted yet.

now on this game... i hope it hits the xbox... im weary about the ps2 port. There was a reason it wasnt done earlier and that's because of memory constraints and the ps2's capability. I can't wait to see some new screens of the game but i hope it hits the xbox as well... there's a huge SF fanbase on xbox live just because of CVS 2: EO. Capcom got to cater to the 70K online fanbase.

[straycat]

Well seeing since sf alpha 3 came out on ps1 and was absolutly brilliant,, i cant see how this wouldnt work.....

[veterangamer]

I was always more of a fan of Street Fighter Alpha 3 than I was SF3. I dunno gueess it's just me.

[Night]

Too bad it's only announced for Japan...

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I can't stand the ps d-pad... it hardly even sticks out of the controller, is innacurate and kinda cramps my hands...

anyhow, why shouldn't they include online play? if they can do it with c rap like auto modestella, then they should that with sf3 too...

It's the most accurate d-pad out there. In MvC the d-pad plays perfectly.