Media Create has confirmed that over 86,000 copies of SFIV were sold in Japan last week, prompting increased sales of the Xbox 360 and PS3.

Sales of Sony's PS3 approached 19,000 while the 360 sold almost 10,000.

Despite the success of the latest Street Fighter title, Capcom was beaten into second place by AlphaDream's Mario & Luigi RPG3.
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Gamasutra's weekly column, "Saling The World", covers the top five sellers for every available platform in the United States, Japan, and Europe, providing an important update of sales patterns worldwide.

This week's charts, with data taken from February 19th, 2009, find Street Fighter IV outselling all competition on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America and the UK, while Star Ocean: The Last Hope and Demon's Souls lead in Japan.

Data for "Saling The World" comes courtesy of the public sales information on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Amazon.co.jp, with sales split out for each platform and territory, and pre-orders disregarded. This results in a true sense of what games are selling worldwide on the real-time updated service, as follows:
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Xboxist.com Writes:

"The internet has been abuzz with stories of broken Street Figher IV standard edition (SE) FightSticks.

Released officially on February 17th in limited quantity, gamers counted themselves lucky to even score a stick. Those that did, brought their happy find back home, only to discover hours into playing their stick exhibited odd behavior, to the point of not being playable. Users reported that the controller stopped registering directional inputs or button presses, made grinding noises, or even had a "stuck" joystick. The problem was attributed to a loose metal washer scraping the printed circuit board (PCB). "
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411mania gives a rundown on this week's game releases. Highlights include Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, Street Fighter IV, DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label Extra, Shooting Love, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, Metroid Prime Wii.

Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? (PSP)
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? is one of the best platformers I've played in years thanks to it's tight controls and above average presentation. However, this game is definitely not for everyone. In fact, I'm pretty sure that only hardcore platformer junkies and people with infinite amounts of patience will get past the first three or four stages without developing a desire to throw their PSPs at a wall in rage. But if you can hang on, getting through the game can be quite satisfying and is an achievement that is worth bragging about.

Street Fighter IV (PS3, 360)
It isn't necessary for me to go in-depth since every other site is already doing it. I will, however, bring to your attention one of the coolest features SFIV has - the Arcade Request system. Basically, instead of watching a static screen while waiting for someone to challenge you online, this system allows you to play against the computer and seamlessly accept a challenge when one comes your way. It's like going to an arcade and playing against the CPU until someone gets the nerve to plunk down fifty cents to take you on. If you set it to accept only Player Matches (unranked) you can keep things going by rematching or, if you don't want to play the person again, you can quickly and easily go back to arcade mode after your match and continue on with the CPU until you get another challenge. It's hard to believe that it's taken Capcom this long to implement such a system. I can only hope that SNK does the same thing in its home version of KOF XII.

DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label Extra (360 Import)
Every shooter needs its own hook to stand out. While Trigger Heart has its grapple syst...
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1UP:

"Over the past two days or so, word has been circulating that the new Street Fighter 4 Mad Catz Arcade standard edition FightSticks are defective. This originated from a post made on the Shoryuken forums claiming that the standard edition sticks were experiencing some issues with sticking or getting caught in a certain direction, making it difficult to properly play or even navigate menus (see video below). Since then, numerous other posts have been made on a number of forums in addition to Shoryuken -- where the number of views on the original thread is rapidly approaching 40,000 -- including the Capcom Unity forums. The standard edition stick we have in the 1UP offices has encountered some of these very problems, while the tournament edition stick -- reviewed here -- has held up quite nicely. While there have been fixes documented, they require gamers to take the device apart, thereby voiding the warranty."
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Is Street Fighter IV missing your favorite character? Relax: Capcom has revealed that you might be getting them in the future.
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Who would have known that all the Street Fighter IV FightPads and FightSticks would be sold out so soon following Street Fighter IV's launch? It's a bummer, but a MadCatz representative urges gamers not to get discouraged or shell out "silly prices on eBay." More are on the way.

"The story is, new pads will be coming in. They will be replenished though March and April," said Mad Catz' global communications manager Alex Verrey. "Please be patient with us, and don't pay silly prices on eBay. These controllers are not a limited edition, there will be more; they're being made literally right now."
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Steven "Genfuyung" writes:

"About a week ago Capcom was pretty steadfast in the notion of not screwing their customers. There wouldn't be any DLC characters they said. That would make for an unbalanced game and could give an unfair advantage to the players willing to bend over the furthest to pay for new characters. Now, with Street Fighter having been out for almost a day, Capcom is mentioning the possibility of adding fighters like T. Hawk and Deejay to the lineup through DLC."
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GamingIndians.com Writes:

While the Killzone 2 launch event in Mumbai seems an uncertainty, here's some good new from Bangalore gamers, and particularly, for fans of Street Fighter. Milestone is set to hold a launch event for the latest installment in the iconic beat 'em up series – Street Fighter IV at The Living Room. And the launch event is open to all.
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So now that you've got your shiny new copy of Capcom's "Street Fighter IV," unboxed it and discovered how infuriatingly useless the default Xbox 360 controller is for throwing a decent Dragon Punch, it might occur to you to pick up one of the lovely new Mad Catz FightSticks -- or FightPads -- that have wowed the crowd ever since their CES 2009 debut.

But if you go to GameStop, or Game Crazy, or Best Buy, or Amazon, or even Mad Catz' own GameShark Store today in an attempt to purchase any of the sixteen different wired and wireless SFIV products available across Xbox 360 and PS3, you're going to be out of luck.
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They're no strangers to typing errors at DZ, but this tip they received from a friend of theirs - who wishes to remain anonymous - was too brilliant not to post. It seems a large number of Street Fighter IV figures are being pulled from sale as we speak, after someone spotted an incredible mistake on the back of the Ryu figure's packaging.
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Capcom Co.'s Street Fighter IV for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 ranked higher than the version for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 in the latest sales rankings at retailer Amazon.com.

On Wed., SFIV for the PS3 held a No. 9 rank, while the Xbox 360 version held a No. 16 rank in Amazon's Video Games division.
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Don't Panic are running a design competition with Capcom for the release of Street Fighter IV. They're looking for people to create their version of one of the 25 characters from the new roster. The winning design will then be used on 10,000 official Street Fighter IV Fan Art posters, distributed in the free Don't Panic packs at the end of March.

They'll also receive an original piece of SF4 artwork signed by producer Yoshinori Ono, a PlayStation 3 and a copy of the game, as well as a bundle of classic Capcom titles. The top ten runners-up with highest voted entries will win a copy of the game on either Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. Competition ends 22 March.
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Gamezine: "Street Fighter IV has been getting much praise for its combination of classic gameplay and updated graphics technology, but there are differences between the console versions.

Firstly, you're going to notice more jagged edges in the PlayStation 3 game, since it doesn't feature any anti-aliasing. This is in contrast to the Xbox 360's 2xAA.

This isn't that much of a negative, since the 'jaggies' are barely noticeable when playing in the traditional gameplay view.

However, you might notice the edges in the character close-ups, a view where the PlayStation 3 suffers slightly in another area. During the close-up sequences, generally used with special moves, the PS3 game's rendering resolution drops from 720p to nearer 630p, which is then up-scaled for output."

Comparison pictures and videos can be found at the source.
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Tons of people are about to play Street Fighter IV today. However, another concept for "Street Fighter IV" exists in design documents. David Sirlin, Lead Designer of Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, was part of a pitch for Street Fighter IV Flashback.
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Capcom has told VG247 that it's thrilled at the prospect of launching Street Fighter IV this Friday, and is expecting a major financial success with the game.
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www.pushingplay.com writes "Yesterday SF IV hit North American shores… and Capcom is already up to their 'each numbered entry is an entire franchise' shenanigans. In an interview with Yoshinori Ono , the producer of SF IV, he says that T. Hawk and Dee Jay, the two missing characters from the Super Street Fighter 2 cast, had completed 3D models and were having their move set fleshed out when they stopped production on them for reasons he doesn't mention.

Is there a chance we'll still get to see them?

Hell yeah! Yoshinori Ono says that he's eager to do a SF IV: Championship Edition that would contain the lost characters, as well as potentially adding even more bulk to the already substantial cast. I personally would want to see Hugo so that I could finally live out the Hugo VS Zangief grudge match that's been playing out in my head for years. What Street Fighter vet would you want to see in glorious 3d? "
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Capcom, a leading worldwide developer and publisher of videogames, has today announced that Street Fighter IV has shipped to retail for the Xbox360 and PLAYSTATION3 ahead of its official release date this Friday 20th February. The long-awaited Street Fighter IV is posed to redefine the fighting game genre with a return to the classic 2D Street Fighter fighting action mixed with new characters, high definition 3D visuals, and Current-Generation fluid gameplay.
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The good guys at VGP did some testings on their PAL Xbox 360 and confirmed that Street Fighter IV is region free.
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Playstation Blog writes: "I know, due to challenges coming in to me via Facebook and IM, that Street Fighter IV hits the… er… street today.

To celebrate the 2nd (or 3rd, or 4th) coming of the Street Fighter legacy, Capcom threw a giant launch party a few days ago in downtown Los Angeles. Many of you attended, some were rebuffed by the LA fire marshal, but all that made it in had a great time.

When I first arrived, Capcom Community Guy and Street Fighter Legend Seth Killian offered up a tour. I rolled video so you could see what went down inside:"
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