PlayStation Plus: Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Free for Members

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PlayStation Plus: Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition Free for Members

This week PlayStation Plus continues the piping hot delivery of updates to keep you warm this December. Last week, you took the plunge into the underwater world of Rapture with BioShock 2 joining the Instant Game Collection. This week, you’ll be busting out your shoryukens and controlling gravity with two great games: Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and Rochard!

Don’t have PlayStation Plus? Go to the PlayStation Store on your PS3 or PS Vita or click here to get access.

December 11th PlayStation Plus Update

Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (PS3)

Free for Plus members

Street Fighter IV was already a bonafide hit when it ushered in a new era of 2D fighters. Take that winning formula, refine and balance one of the best fighting game engines, add four new characters (Yun, Yang, Evil Ryu, and Oni), take part in new online modes and you’ve got one of the most complete fighting game packages ever. See you online; I’ll be the guy using this handy guide to my all time favorite fighting game character.
Rochard (PS3)

Free for Plus members

A PSN gem, Rochard brings fantastic puzzle-platforming in the form of taking control of astro-miner John Rochard. Though a humble premise it may be, you’ll be addicted to the gravity control mechanics of Rochard as you solve environmental puzzles and explore new ways to navigate the wonderful trappings of this galactic platformer. It’s a PSN exclusive that, if you missed, you should definitely make the time to play. You can read more on the game from the PlayStation Blog’s coverage. Please note, this title will only be available free in Plus for one week.

That’s it for this week’s update, and remember that the above updates will be in effect once the PlayStation Store updates on December 11th; usually between the times of 2:00pm – 5:00pm PST. Also, for those wondering, we do have PS Vita games on the way in December that will add to the already great library of content on PS Vita Plus. Watch for those to be announced in this space later this month.

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Please remember to jump in to the PlayStation Community Forums in the Plus space where you’ll find threads (or start your own!) to discuss Plus. Of course, leave your thoughts here as well and remember, giving specific feedback is always the best course. Enjoy the update, and see you in the comments.

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  • Well, Street fighter IV not a bad game but almost 2.5 years last, Arkan CitY must be a better choise I thing, disapointed :(

  • everyone rate this post 1/5 and vote for “nothing for me this week” in the poll. hopefully someone important will see the terrible job the SCEA teamis doing and replace them with competent employees.

  • @172 europe its a country now? LOL, but yeah it seems all love goes there and we get the leftovers or old games to hype new releases

  • everyone rate this post 1/5 and vote for “nothing for me this week” in the poll. hopefully someone important will see the terrible job the SCEA teamis doing and replace them with competent employees.

  • @RoflPenguin – as far as Im aware some guy was explaing bc there are four teams tht split up and the team that went to EU well, they’re the “game getters” as he put.

  • you have GOT to be kidding me….Street Fighter is way overrated, why the Arcade Edition? at least add the original SFIV, it was good from what I’ve heard, I MAY download AE just to see if my hatred is right, maybe it will be wrong, that would restore my faith in Plus, as far as PS3 full games go. In all honesty, I never heard of Rochard, but I’m always up for a good puzzle platformer (OutLand was amazing :D). Seriously though, as someone said maybe games that didn’t sell well would be better? (even for older games, maybe Beyond Good and Evil (or the HD version ;)) or Okami) I’m not going to say that I hate Plus now, these are worth a shot at least, because all of these games for $50/year, I can’t complain. I must agree with #49 to an extent, we are promised something amazing, and we get another fighter (not saying KoF was bad, far from it, but difficult) and some game probably a lot of us have never heard of, so much for amazing. No, if you want to amaze us, try to get us games equal to what EU gets, I’m still irritated about last week. I mean not necessarily the same games, but maybe something else that earned GOTY (like Arkham City did) or something just as well recieved.

    • Regarding the Arcade edition of Street Fighter IV; the Arcade Edition is the definitive version of Street Fighter IV. includes all the content from SFIV, but adds more stuff. So hopefully you check it out!

  • I’m an avid supporter of plus… but this weeks update is disappointing. Please stop with the fighters and give us something similar to what the EU store is getting in future updates.

  • Solution: Batman and MotorStorm next week.

  • Awesome update! As someone who only owns vanilla SFIV this is a great chance to pick up this game again.

  • @354 – The original AE was better than SFIV, but suffered some balance issues… almost all of which were fixed with a balance patch last January. It’s the definitive version of the game.

  • @Morgan I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or if it just isn’t possible on PS Vita. But can the automatic download turn on my PS Vita and download the updates like the PS3? I’ve noticed that it only does the updates when I leave it on standby and not when I turn it off.

    • I believe the device needs to be on standby. You can’t turn it completely off, otherwise, it won’t be able to connect to the internet and upload your game saves.

  • + Francofone on December 10th, 2012 at 9:06 am said:

    and this is one of the main reasons why I let my + expire.

    YEP! Me too. Glad I jumped the fence to Plus on my UK account. Been looking forward to Big Sky Infinity for ages, the perfect welcome gift.
    Thanks SCEE you’ve done it again haha!

    Street Fighter and Rochard LMAO

  • hmmm… i’ve been a long time plus subscriber and a long time supporter of plus. I Usually tell people “dont worry plus will give us something good next week”…. but im calling it quits….. im tired of theses garbage games that do nothing more than go in my download list…I tried to be optemistic and even waited a whole year to see if anything good will drop…. I believe the only game they gave us that I actually downloaded was RE5 Out of the whole year only 1 game….. yeah maybe once the downloads are worth it i’ll come back to plus but as long as you keep giving worthless drops like these I see no point in buying my plus membership again.

  • you gotta be kidding me…. i bought this game off the psn store last week for 30$ and i have ps plus is there like any way i can get my money back??

  • 326 Microsoft dose care about there cutermers unlike SONY. I wish that morgan would stop lieing to us. and I wish that tehy would give us what we want and stop tell us that they will look into it.

  • Also please make automatic save uploads to the cloud a lot easier on the PS Vita. Having to go to each save and manually check mark each box is time consuming and unnecessary when you could have an automatically upload all button.

  • And can we get some more trailers up on the Store? Like ALL of the ones from the VGAs that relate to PlayStation and perhaps some Metal Gear Rising trailers.

  • Does anyone know if Starhawk Single Player will be free again? playstation Lifestyle is reporting it free. Is that a US site?

  • Alright, I understand that I get probably more than my money’s worth within a month or two from Plus, but a little variety would be nice. You seriously shove fighting games at us almost every single month and it’s beyond frustrating. I think we’ve had our fighting game fix from Plus to last a decade now. Seriously; We’ve been given VF: Final Showdown, KoF XIII, SF 2 HD, and now SSF IV Arcade. It’s enough to make even fighting fanatics sick so imagine how someone not into those games feels. Stop shoving fighting games down our throats for crying out loud.

  • Morgan why don’t we got an Christmas sale going on right now.

    • We’ll have some great deals coming this holiday season soon enough but nothing to announce at this time. Stay tuned to the PS Blog for more info on upcoming sales.

  • Nothing for me this week

  • I already have SSFIV + all the DLC.

    I was expecting something more in the lines of the EU blog :D

  • Now, I’m not happy with yet another fighting game, trust me, Morgan already got my opinion via other methods, but you all realize that what goes into the IGC is not solely up to SCEA, right? Sony can’t just give another companies games away because we want them.. Not financially responsible by anyone in that situation, thus Sony has to get permission to put a game in the IGC. I feel that companies are treating Europe and the US differently to see what works better for them.

    Also, Morgan doesn’t make the decisions, he just informs us. Calling for him to get fired is not called for, he does his best. He has to stay positive, if he said that next weeks Plus post was gonna suck, he wouldn’t be doing his job. Plus, some people did love this post, and I’m rather excited by Rochard, wanted to try it for awhile.

    My two cents.

  • good update! , i was disappointed with bioshock 2 , but this time the update is preety good , keep up the good work sony!

  • @373: I totally understand the complications in getting the same things in both regions. Their are a ton of factors that kind of prevent that from being a possibility in most cases, but the overwhelming amount of fighting games we get is damn insulting to say the least. Rochard is something I don’t mind, but something has got to give here.

  • @ ResistanceGTA

    It’s true that it might not be SCEA’s fault all the time, but there is no reason we can’t get the same level of games.

    Also I agree with the whole Morgan comment, even though he can be annoying by saying “next week will be better”

  • Thanks Morgan for getting to my post. and can I ask you something so you can put this out to your people that you work with. Can we have it so that we can be able to go onto our vita’s and buy a PS3 game and it will down load onto are PS3’s. and can we please see a IGN app come to the xmb.

  • I just don’t understand all the complaints. We get the definitive version of one of the greatest fighting games of all time for free and a very fun PSN game for free. We got BioShock 2 free last week. Are we really at the point where we complain about what free games we get? The other services alone pay for PS+.

    So Europe has gotten a couple great retail games we haven’t…we’ve still gotten plenty of awesome games/discounts/exclusives/etc.

    I for one wanted to say thanks Morgan! Also, with Christmas rolling around the corner is there any holiday plans in store for us? I’m not sure of any Christmas themed games but family friendly games such as the Legos series would be pretty cool!

  • Holy cow there’s alot of whining, makes me think it’s a classroom of third grade girls. Awesome update, awesome value. I don’t play half of what I download, but it’s nice knowing it’s there if I want, no disc necessary. And the games I do play I definitely get more than $50 worth over the year, not to mention my kids. Thanks Sony!

  • Something does need to give, I’m just really hopeful that we have a comparable Christmas sale, I just looked at what they have on sale in EU, and I’m liking it (Medal of Honor: Warfighter for 30 is impressive) but I’m not holding my breath… Though if everyone begged to get the Christmas news sooner rather than later, maybe they would give in like the Vita Plus news. :P

  • + Morgan Haro on December 10th, 2012 at 4:19 pm said:

    I can include it as an option in the poll next week?

    lol ok. i think people would actually vote to keep you, but by the slimmest of margins :)

  • I’ll be honest, I didn’t want another fighting game. But with that said, at least it’s another game that I do not already own, and is also a good fighting game at that. Rochard also looks fun. Honestly, I’ve been kinda glad that we don’t get the same stuff that EU gets because most of what they get I already own, whereas here nearly every single game that we have gotten since the launch of the IGC with the exception of Infamous 2, Borderlands, and RE5 are all games that I did not own. I can understand people wanting stuff EU got like Deus Ex: HR, Crysis 2, or Vanquish as those aren’t owned by many people and are good, but why do people want games like Red Dead Redemption or RE5? These games are old and have sold literally millions on the PS3 alone. I do hope that we have a good Christmas PSN sale though, and hopefully it’s not filled with average or old games on sale like the sale we had for the tuesday before black friday. But in regards to the IGC, I’m happy with it overall.

  • Another lame update. Street fighter is great… But again, I ALREADY OWN IT! September and October were great updates & I thought that things were going to stay that way. Morgan almost had me with that whole “next week it will be better” trolling.

  • is obvious that this game has a lot of people, should be not so popular games or at least not as sold as this

  • damn EU got some better free games..

  • I am not a major fan of fighting games, but I am glad to see SFIV because I’ve never played it and I have heard good things. I was also glad to see Rochard because played the demo, and I have been planning on picking it up ever since. My question, however, is as follows? Why haven’t any PS1 classics been included in Plus for so long? I’m always in the mood for a good PS1 classic!

  • Again if people really want Arkham City then they should be willing to buy it and keep it forever instead of waiting around for it to become a free game

    And as some of the people suggested in earlier comments i like the idea of getting some RPG’s but aren’t the only RPG’s on the PS Store Hyperdimension Neptunia MKII, and the Record Of Agarest Wars series? i am sure that there are more games but these are the only ones that come to mind, and these are games i own and enjoy. but i am pretty sure they aren’t the most popular RPG’s out there so it leaves me to wonder what kind of RPG’s are people hoping for on the store?

  • Now I have LBP2, KOFXIII AND now Super Street Figher 4 AE to enjoy! Oh, thank you so much Sony!
    Also: I find the comments on the EU Plus being better rather pessimistic, to be honest.

  • I would like some PS Vita discount games for PS Plus members, so just in case I don’t renew my membership, I’ll have the discounted games as long as my Vita lasts.

  • WHERE IS THE VITA??

  • Already have both of these, but SSF4:AE is a pretty good freebie for those that don’t.

  • Oh ok thanks you guys, well then I guess the team in America needs to follow in the footsteps of their European counterparts lol. Well I trust these guys will get it right in the future. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for a RPG or a JRPG next time :D

  • this is a great deal with all the fighters making a huge comeback this can only help even more people get on board. SF isnt my choice of fighters, but its well known and this is great for ps plus people.

  • Fantastic Update:

    Too bad I’ve already played SF 4, but I didn’t play the Acrade Edition.

    I know this question would have been better asked last week. Do you see on the table getting Bio Shock 2 DLC at a reduce price or even for free? I’ve had Bio Shock 2 for quite awhile, but haven’t got any of the DLC. I’ve been waiting for a price drop. I know you had one through Plus but I didn’t have funds for it then.

    Keep up the good work.

  • i really hope they make some more psone games and ps2 games free also. been kinda slow on those lately

  • I honestly cant believe people are complaining about ‘FREE GAMES’.

    Give someone an apple, they want ORANGES!

  • + Pabloo1010
    If i have to pay for ps+, then the games are not free.

  • So, I was a bit bored and decided to break down the games by release date (year) and retail/PSN

    2008
    Saints Row 2 (r)

    2009
    Borderlands (r)

    2010
    Just Cause 2 (r)
    Bioshock 2 (r)
    Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (r)
    Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light
    Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
    Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

    2011
    Infamous 2 (r)
    LittleBigPlanet 2 (r)
    Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One (r)
    Warhamer 40k: Space Marine (r)
    King of Fighters XIII (r)
    Bloodrayne Betrayal
    Hardcorp: Uprising
    Outland
    Payday: The Heist
    Renegade Ops
    Sideway New York
    Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone
    Dungeon Defenders
    Rochard

    2012
    NFL Blitz (r)
    Starhawk (campaign only) (r)
    Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown (r)
    Choplifter HD
    Double Dragon Neon
    Quantum Conundrum
    Gotham City Imposters
    The Walking Dead (ep 1&2)

    I think this is mostly accurate… not claiming 100%… but the point is that there seems to be a rather large disparity between retail and psn releases. Why is that?
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  • Personally I love plus now! Before the instant game collection it really was not worth $50, in my opinion. Now, we have the instant game collection, which makes plus an instant awesome! I may not like streetfighter, or bioshock, or whatever; but the incredible value is still there. I feel like you all make a good effort to give a variety of genres, so that, maybe everyone will be happy… (yea right :P). One area of improvement, however, would be to give all ps3 owners auto-syncing trophies and auto-updating games/ps3 firmware. I don’t think you should have to pay for that. As far as all other plus-related things, keep up the good work and thank you!

  • + bamahollis88

    Whether you refer to the games as ‘free’ or ‘rented’, the point is you paid for an Instant Game Collection. That’s what everyone signed up for, that’s what everyone is getting. There is no reason to complain.

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