Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition Announced

If Street Fighter X Tekken isn't your cup of hadoken, perhaps the other game Capcom announced over the weekend is. At its panel during San Diego Comic-Con, series producer Yoshinori Ono revealed Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition, a downloadable version of the 1999 Dreamcast fighter.

Few details have been released about this resuscitation. At the panel, Ono said that the team is "going to take [its] time to bring [it] out," and we shouldn't expect it in the "immediate future." Ono didn't bother with even the smallest of specifics like the game's media-type or if it's a creation along the lines of Street Fighter II HD Remix. 
 

hadukon
 
awww

yay

Hakudon!

I think "Online Edition" just means you'll be able to play it online and not some deeper meaning.

I have never actually played Street Fighter 3, so I am pretty interested in this. Also, its kinda crazy how many fighting games Capcom is pumping out right now, or even how many fighting games are coming out/being worked on by anyone.

What? This was news like 2 days ago.

Looks like i'll end up having 3 copies of Third Strike when this version comes out. DC, PS2 and the new one.

 "Now that I have announced it, the company can't stop us."
 
Fantastic.

I hope they don't change the art, like HD REMIX. Think HDR was a great game, but the art wasn't that great.

I only recently got into street fighter, bought SF3 for xbox after playing SSF4 and i like it a little more than 4.
The only downside, widescreen stretches to fit instead of being true widescreen, the emulation on the 360 lags very very rarely but it happens and the graphics are very blocky, it would look much better on an sdtv i'm sure its a display thing.
 
So have true widescreen and higher resolution and i'm sold, as long as it has an arcade mode, if it's online only i'm not sold, i'm not a competitive person.

" Hakudon! "

It's actually an MMO, you can play as either Ken or Ryu

YEEEEEEES!!! 
 
this is the best thing that happened at Comic-Con

Release the Q-ken!

" I only recently got into street fighter, bought SF3 for xbox after playing SSF4 and i like it a little more than 4. The only downside, widescreen stretches to fit instead of being true widescreen, the emulation on the 360 lags very very rarely but it happens and the graphics are very blocky, it would look much better on an sdtv i'm sure its a display thing.  So have true widescreen and higher resolution and i'm sold, as long as it has an arcade mode, if it's online only i'm not sold, i'm not a competitive person. "

so much Street Fighter now...

Oh, for some reason I thought this was going to be some browser-based thing.  I was wondering why people were so excited.  Now I know!

" about time!! just look out for the mass use of ken's, chun li's, and ryus'!! watch all the people who tried to main makoto in super relase some amger in 3rd strike!! aha!! "

now this is what i've been praying to gaming jesus for

If this is just 3rd Strike with a graphics filter and online matchmaking... ugh.

Never played third strike so mucho happy for this news!

YES!

Eurogamer discovered that it was a "downloadable title" this morning, but the gigantic mystery--what the "Online" part of the name really means--is still unanswered. Could it possibly allude to network support? Online fighting? Is that even possible? Oh wait. Yes, of course it's possible. Uh... let's just call that "mystery solved" and move forward, cool?

" If this is just 3rd Strike with a graphics filter and online matchmaking... ugh. "

" What? This was news like 2 days ago. "

As someone who only got into fighting games recently I'm a bit confused. I could be wrong, but wasn't Street Fighter 3 sort of the black sheep of the series? I have a retro games store near my house, maybe I'll see if I can pick up the Dreamcast version to see what this is all about.

" As someone who only got into fighting games recently I'm a bit confused. I could be wrong, but wasn't Street Fighter 3 sort of the black sheep of the series? I have a retro games store near my house, maybe I'll see if I can pick up the Dreamcast version to see what this is all about. "

Thank god, at last I can chuck basketballs at people again. 
Oh Sean how I have missed you..

The least of the SF games I played. Once it finally came out, I really didn't care for video games anymore.  Can't wait to add it to my collection

" @nycityisme said:

" about time!! just look out for the mass use of ken's, chun li's, and ryus'!! watch all the people who tried to main makoto in super relase some amger in 3rd strike!! aha!! "

No one uses Ryu in 3rd Strike. I think you mean Chun, Yun, and Ken. "

If this isn't on 360 and PS3 it's a waste.

It's called Third Strike for a reason.

I hope they can find a way to keep people playing online 3 months after release.

" I hope they can find a way to keep people playing online 3 months after release. "

" @cide said:

" I hope they can find a way to keep people playing online 3 months after release. "

There will be a group of people who will play this game non-stop. "

" There will be a group of people who will play this game non-stop. "

I missed out on this on Dreamcast. Heard from a lot of people that's it's the best SF game. Nice to see it return and give us a new chance to check it out.

Well, I might finally be able to figure out what all the weird people on the internet were talking about when they said that Street Fighter III was super great.

" @JJOR64 said:

" @cide said:

" I hope they can find a way to keep people playing online 3 months after release. "

There will be a group of people who will play this game non-stop. "

I think MvC2 begs to differ "

" Well, I might finally be able to figure out what all the weird people on the internet were talking about when they said that Street Fighter III was super great. "

" If this is just 3rd Strike with a graphics filter and online matchmaking... ugh. "

@lordofultima

"  @nycityisme said: 

" about time!! just look out for the mass use of ken's, chun li's, and ryus'!! watch all the people who tried to main makoto in super relase some amger in 3rd strike!! aha!! "

No one uses Ryu in 3rd Strike. I think you mean Chun, Yun, and Ken. "

Man, there's been a bunch of Street Figher news lately.

This is great news.  I liked SF3 much more than any incarnation of SF2.  I already have SF3 on PS2 but would gladly pay for it again on PS3 with online support.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never played Third Strike so maybe this is my chance to check it out.

PERFECT My favourite street fighter!

I'm excited, but not fully surprised. I had a feeling that something of that vein was on its way when SFIII-themed avatars made their way to the PlayStation Store.

" @FreakAche said:

" As someone who only got into fighting games recently I'm a bit confused. I could be wrong, but wasn't Street Fighter 3 sort of the black sheep of the series? I have a retro games store near my house, maybe I'll see if I can pick up the Dreamcast version to see what this is all about. "

The Dreamcast version isn't a great port.  Black sheep? 3rd Strike considered by many to be the finest 2D fighting game ever made. Its still played in tournaments to this day. The reason it's obscure is because it only received a few ports (because the CPS3 was very advanced for its time) and it didn't have many SFII characters. It was still great, but more for the hardcore players. "