LG Gets Exclusive Rights to Street Fighter IV on Android Phones

Korean electronics company LG announced some big news today, disclosing that it has landed an exclusive deal with Japanese game developer Capcom to bring Street Fighter IV to the Android platform.

The popular game will be listed on LG’s global apps site in the fourth quarter of this year, and as one of the most popular game franchises in history, Street Fighter will bring some excitement and name recognition to LG phones for consumers.

The company’s CEO, Dr. Jong-seok Park, elaborated on the importance of offering HD content to its customers:

As we prepare our first HD smartphone for launch, it was important for us to be able to offer HD content that would really demonstrate this phone’s benefits. The HD version of Street Fighter certainly fills this objective. We are also confident that LG’s soon-to-be-unveiled HD display technology will give Street Fighter fans a whole new reason to play the game again.

Street Fighter featured prominently at the Tokyo Game Show this past weekend, most notably with Street Fighter x Tekken. And if you’re a fan of our Facebook page, you probably noticed that there was no shortage of pretty ladies promoting Capcom’s wares at TGS as well.

As we wrote here a few weeks back, Capcom is well aware that its future success depends heavily on its business overseas.

And to that end, smartphones are the perhaps the easiest way to extend its reach across the globe. This partnership with LG is a promising step in that direction.