First Street Fighter videogame without an arcade cabinet release

Street Fighter (Capcom, 1987), the first game in what would become an iconic fighting game series, was first released not for a computer or home console, but as an arcade cabinet, available to the public on a pay-to-play basis in specialist videogame arcades. While such venues have become less common over the years, each major release in the franchise (excluding remakes or handheld versions) has included an arcade cabinet version. This tradition came to an end with the release of Street Fighter V (Capcom, 2016), which, as the game's producer Yoshinori Ono confirmed in an interview with Eurogamer.net in November 2015, will not receive and arcade cabinet release.

The last Street Fighter game to be released in an arcade cabinet format was Ultra Street Fighter IV (Capcom 2014), but this was only available in Japanese arcades.

Yoshinori Ono said "this is the first time we're not releasing an arcade version, so we're missing that on-site testing we'd get to fine-tune the characters".