Capcom said last week Street Fighter 4 for PC delayed till next summer, today Capcom announced the delaying wasn’t because of piracy issue. The matter related to the testing and optimizations which takes enough time.

While last week the rumor of the delaying Street Fighter 4 PC version till summer, spread over the intelligent web, PC fans was pissed off and started to comment in different ways. Capcom was angry of that issue and made this statement: “Well the answer is the game’s not done, to put things into perspective, the Street Fighter IV team is working on two things right now. They’re finishing the PC SKU, and people are like, well the arcade was the PC, how hard can it be? Well we had all of these additions for the console version in terms of content that didn’t exist on the PC. All of that needs to be rolled back in.

“We have to do an online integration with an online service. I won’t discuss which one yet because it hasn’t been announced yet. Obviously the arcade had no online. Here we have an online integration that has to be done. We have to optimise the game for a variety of configurations, both up and down, so that it looks pretty on things that are more powerful than the arcade system and it runs well and at 60 frames per second on things that are considerably less powerful, so we sell to more than the top two per cent of the market.

“All of that takes time. The testing on PC in particular is a very very time consuming process. Testing and optimisation versus obviously when we’re working on console or an arcade board for that matter, it has a known configuration that we can optimise for out of the gate.”

The answer wasn’t satisfying for many folks, as Capcom could’ve worked on the PC version before the other consoles.

While the PC version will be released on summer, the game was released to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on February 20^th.

Console wins!