Street Fighter V will no longer be playable in arcades as of April 2024. Capcom and Taito announced that they will shut down Street Fighter V: Type Arcade on April 1, 2024. In addition, the companies will also take down the arcade version’s website on April 7, 2024. [Thanks, 4Gamer.]
The end-of-service announcement page includes a Q&A segment that confirms the arcade version will be rendered completely unplayable—even in offline mode—after the shutdown. The only way people can still play Street Fighter V afterward is by purchasing the fighting game on PlayStation 4 or PC via Steam.
The arcade version of Street Fighter V launched in 2019, which is three years after the fighting game appeared first on PS4 and PC in 2016. Despite being the series’ first mainline entry to not appear in arcades first, it also offers integration features to support console players, such as external gamepad connection and Fighter’s ID linkage. The latter allows players to bring character costumes and color palettes they have unlocked in the console versions to the arcade version.
The removal of Street Fighter V‘s arcade release does not mean that the fighting game series will cease to exist entirely in arcades. Capcom and Taito have launched the sequel Street Fighter 6: Type Arcade on December 14, 2023. The new game had a much shorter gap of just around half a year between the arcade launch and the initial console version release on June 2, 2023.
Street Fighter V: Type Arcade is available in arcades until Monday, April 1, 2024, at 5:59 AM JST.
