Yoshinori Ono, Capcom producer for Street Fighter IV, has commented in an interview during Leipzig that Street Fighter IV will not have console-specific or downloadable characters. Why, you ask? Because they are freaking unfair.

"Well this is just my policy, but I don't want to give an exclusive character for any particular console. And that applies to downloadable characters as well. Because it's not very fair, when you think about this as a board game or a tool. Hidden characters? If we're going to talk about hidden characters they won't be hidden any more!"

I don't know if he meant that in the "unfair to the consumer" or "unfair because Yoda is wicked cheap," kind of way, but I have to agree on both accounts. It made sense with Soul Calibur II because they were mostly system-specific. I don't think I'd be crazy to say that many Soul Calibur players felt cheated knowing they were going to be shorted a character in IV, especially when licensing couldn't be blamed. Anyone have any issues with Ono's comments, or are they pretty much in line with what gamers think?

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