That Street Fighter IV already runs fabulously on home consoles could be test-played at Germany's GC08 already. But when SFIV would hit western shores had been announced nowhere yet. SFIV producer Yoshi Ono, though, now gave details on the western release of Capcom's newest fighter, which is expected to fix the market abyss that fighting games have fallen into. (Some would even go this far to blame Virtua Fighter for all the allegedly inaccessible complexity that some fighting games have come to.)

In an interview with G4TV Ono-san said that the arcade version of Street Fighter IV would hit the North American shores "definitely this winter." Now in game marketing language winter runs through March, unfortunately; thus most likely SFIV slips into 2009.

We actually thought the arcades were practically dead in the west. Maybe Yoshi Ono fancied the release date of the home version instead?