What’s Sony Teasing With This PS4 Ad?

Posted on April 13, 2014 at 7:58 am

For the past few weeks, Sony was marketing next week’s PS4 launch with a campaign called #4ThePlayers. The ads to this point was mostly desirous about stoking nostalgia for the PlayStation brand, but today’s ad is a bit different.

In a brand new ad that’s obviously meant to move viral, Sony references Street Fighter II in a place for a service called Hadouken Cab. It’s actually a beautiful witty piece of entertainment, but is there a deeper meaning behind it?

Kotaku notes that the ad combined with the website tie-in point to something Street Fighter related coming to the PS4. Capcom did only recently announce Ultra Street Fighter IV for PS3 and Xbox 360, but could the publisher have a PS4 version inside the works to boot? This ad seems to suggest that it can be something like that. It wouldn’t be the primary fighting game from the present generation to get a next gen touch up.

As of now, however, the best Capcom game announced for next-gen consoles is the free-to-play Deep Down. That one is unique to the PS4, and that exclusivity may carry over to whatever Street Fighter project Capcom has within the works.

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