The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions will launch on the same day.

Offering a whole lot of characters, the fighter will arrive on European shores in the same week, on February 20.

A PC version is still in the works, but will be released at a later time following Capcom's recent policy of delaying PC releases to fight piracy.

Street Fighter IV was released in Japanese arcades in summer 2008, but was never officially exported from its home country before now. A handful of anxious fans imported "gray market" machines into arcades in Western countries as Capcom looked the other way.