This week kicked off with the hope that we’d finally get to see Elena in Street Fighter 6 proper, but instead we got a new Rival Schools Fighting Pass.
What if we do still get to have a glimpse at the last Season 2 character very soon, however?
The big Nintendo Switch 2 Direct event is slated to take place tomorrow, April 2, starting at 6 a.m. PDT.
With a runtime of 60 minutes, fans are expecting to see at least some of the games planned for the Switch 2, and there’s been a lot of speculation going around lately about Street Fighter 6 potentially being among them.
The reported specs of the new console should be more than enough to run SF6 considering it’s already on the PlayStation 4, and it would make sense for Capcom to want to hop on the bandwagon early to get their flagship fighting game on the Switch 2.
This could finally serve as the avenue to get DLSS (deep learning super sampling) into Street Fighter 6, which has long been rumored to be a feature of the Switch 2’s NVIDIA GPU.
DLSS cuts down on system resources by using AI cores to generate higher quality images at lower internal resolutions to provide a significant performance boost, and though it’s become a popular feature of many PC games, most fighters aren’t using the tech yet outside of a few examples like Mortal Kombat 1.
If SF6 does come to the Switch 2, that could very well open the door to getting DLSS and super sampling on other platforms like PC as a potentially nice upgrade to many players.
If the company has been waiting for a big event to unveil Elena to the world, there is no larger event than the Nintendo Direct likely until at least June.
Considering there’s no Elena Arrives Fighting Pass this month, that means the final second season addition is likely coming in May now.
We’ve seen new Street Fighter 6 characters pop up before on PlayStation showcases and other broadcasts like the Summer Games Fest where they revealed the Season 2 pass (including Elena last year).
That being said, however, there’s also been plenty of times when Capcom has just shown off the trailers on their own with no warning.
So even if Street Fighter shows up at the Direct, that doesn’t guarantee Elena is going to be there too.
That would explain, though, why they completely skipped out on a reveal at Capcom Cup 11 if they are saving Elena for a different event.
She may not be coming this month, but Capcom does typically share the World Tour teaser 1–2 months before the character releases in SF6 with the only real exception being M. Bison.
So we’re still expecting to see Elena sometime in April in that form, and again, the Nintendo Direct would be the biggest place to do it.
Assuming that’ll be the case, we’ll then likely get her gameplay trailer at Evo Japan 2025 or some other time around late April to early May.
Right now, we’re rating Street Fighter 6’s chances of being revealed for the Switch 2 tomorrow around a medium level and Elena showing up a fair bit lower than that.
Either way, it’s going to be very interesting to see what sort of presence fighting games have on the Switch 2 out the gate since the Switch did feature a large number of ports across its life.
We’ll be learning more very soon.
Source: Event Hubs
