And Tatsunoko vs. Capcom has nothing to do with the amount of effort it would take to port Street Fighter IV. There are reasons why it probably won't happen, but TvC is not one of them. Jeez, just look at Street Fighter III and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on the Dreamcast and PS2, or Marvel vs. Capcom (I think) and X-Men vs. Street Fighter on the PS1 with Street Fighter Alpha 1, 2, and 3. This wouldn't even be the first time a Capcom vs. game went up against a Street Fighter.

So, TvC = no SFIV anytime soon. No SFIV now = not worth porting over later. Unless, of course, they do a proper re-marketing push the way T2 did for GTA2…but I don't see Capcom doing that.

SFIV and TvC would probably come off as two very similar games, except SFIV would have more appeal because it's “Street Fighter.” And no one would know what Tatsunoko is.

And Tatsunoko vs. Capcom has nothing to do with the amount of effort it would take to port Street Fighter IV. There are reasons why it probably won't happen, but TvC is not one of them. Jeez, just look at Street Fighter III and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on the Dreamcast and PS2, or Marvel vs. Capcom (I think) and X-Men vs. Street Fighter on the PS1 with Street Fighter Alpha 1, 2, and 3. This wouldn't even be the first time a Capcom vs. game went up against a Street Fighter.

So, TvC = no SFIV anytime soon. No SFIV now = not worth porting over later. Unless, of course, they do a proper re-marketing push the way T2 did for GTA2…but I don't see Capcom doing that.

SFIV and TvC would probably come off as two very similar games, except SFIV would have more appeal because it's “Street Fighter.” And no one would know what Tatsunoko is.

Most people don't bother to learn fighting games past the basics and if someone likes fighting games, they'll have no problems buying more than one of them. That's why Tekken and Soul Calibur are both successful.

Personally, I would have picked up both TvC and SFIV but I just can't see the more mainstream gamer doing that. They would pick one fighting game to learn and it would likely have been SFIV.

Think of it this way: if you were a mainstream gamer, would you pick up a game with Ken, Ryu, Guile, Zangief and Akuma or would you pick up a game with giant Ryu and a bunch of characters you don't know and don't care about?

(Not a knock against the game, mind you. I'm just being realistic.)

And Street Fighter being more popular than Tatsunoko still doesn't make sense as a reason not to port Street FIghter IV to the Wii. Most games either slow in sales or stop all together after a certain point. Street Fighter IV wouldn't be hurting Tatsunoko vs. Capcom a year after its release.

Tatsunoko vs Capcom is CEI doing us a “favour.” I don't expect the game to do particularly well. How could it, when no one knows what the hell “Tatsunoko” is? It would've made far more sense to bring SFIV over, considering how much more mainstream Street Fighter is and the attention that the Wii has been getting from that same audience.

My probably not-useful tip is: Get a nephew! I could hardly pry mine away from those, so money wasn't a problem. :)

It's already been stated by Capcom that Street Fighter IV could run on anything with six buttons and a dpad. (It was in an interview on this very site, in fact.) Tatsunoko vs. Capcom doesn't negatively impact SFIV's chances of of Wii port at all.

I already have a PS3 and that has nothing to do with anything. Telling someone to buy a new console because they've shown interest in one game is stupid. If I wanted to play it “the way it was meant to be played” I'd have to buy an arcade cabinet.