Hearing pretty much everyone else in the thread so far say, "WTF is Geese Howard?" makes me think the next character is going to be someone more mainstream and/or modern.

Geese is really cool, but SNK games weren't super popular in the 90's in the west, and now there's a generation of players who don't really know the Fatal Fury series or other SNK properties from then that well.

So obviously they aren't going to be too interested in Geese, just from hearing the name.

So who do we think the other new player will be? A lot of people seem to think/want it to be Kiryu. That might be interesting. I wouldn't be as interested since I haven't gotten into the Yakuza series, but he is a brawler and at least he wouldn't be another fireball character.

I think to keep it balanced, they might try a modern female character though.