The producer of the soon-to-be-disappointing Street Fighter movie has revealed that Street Fighter IV will be launching at the same time as the movie, which is slated for February. Hopefully that is going to be the only tie-in, because last I checked the movie was nothing but fail, and the game was nothing but win. Below is the quote from the GameDaily Biz interview:

PA: Capcom is releasing Street Fighter IV in 2009, which is the 20th anniversary of the game. The film and game release dates will coincide, but I'm not certain how much of the game will coincide with the story because ours is a very partitioned off origin story of the Street Fighter universe. So the release dates will coincide, elements between the two will coincide, but in terms of them relating to each other perfectly, I don't believe that's the case.

He says that there will not be perfect relation, which sort of goes without saying. I don't think that any movie has ever related perfectly with a game, even when they tried. I would be willing to bet that Capcom is going to do as much as they possibly can to distance the game from the film, but then again, they let all of the Resident Evil movies get made, so their taste in films is definitely in question.

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