I emailed SNKP-USA last night, and I recieved a response this morning with some pretty good stuff. Here's my original email:
To Whomever This Concerns,
I'm an avid member of the thriving (yet niche) Neo Geo community, and
a proud owner of an AES, etc, and I'm just wondering if the US
division of SNKP has any plans to release King of Fighters 94 ReBout
on North American shores. Following information on the import PS2
version has made me quite jealous of the Japanese market, and I know
that a US/Canadian release would be greatly appreciated by the
community, given feedback on the Neo-Geo.com forums regarding the
Japanese release. It's great to see continued support for the series
through the KOF pack releases, as well as SVC and Metal Slug, but this
release is vacant from any domestic release info. Just wondering if
there are any plans.
Furthermore, I am interested whether or not we can expect a domestic
release of Samurai Shodown 5 on the PS2 or Xbox.
Again, thank you very much for your time, and continue the great work!
Sincerely,
Eric Buettner
~~~
And the response is as follows:
SNK answer man
<snkmail@snkplaymoreusa.com> to me
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Eric,
SS5 for Xbox in 2005 and we are discussing a Xbox KOF '94 as well.
Happy New Year.
www.SNKPLAYMOREUSA.com
~~~
Not too bad... from his response, it sounds as though SS5 is almost for certain going to be an Xbox release here (with live play, hopefully), and that KOF94 Rebout might actually make it out as well... The SS5 news is exciting because I'm a starving college kid and can't afford the home release (and I don't have an MVS). Good stuff... I'm keeping my fingers crossed here.
To Whomever This Concerns,
I'm an avid member of the thriving (yet niche) Neo Geo community, and
a proud owner of an AES, etc, and I'm just wondering if the US
division of SNKP has any plans to release King of Fighters 94 ReBout
on North American shores. Following information on the import PS2
version has made me quite jealous of the Japanese market, and I know
that a US/Canadian release would be greatly appreciated by the
community, given feedback on the Neo-Geo.com forums regarding the
Japanese release. It's great to see continued support for the series
through the KOF pack releases, as well as SVC and Metal Slug, but this
release is vacant from any domestic release info. Just wondering if
there are any plans.
Furthermore, I am interested whether or not we can expect a domestic
release of Samurai Shodown 5 on the PS2 or Xbox.
Again, thank you very much for your time, and continue the great work!
Sincerely,
Eric Buettner
~~~
And the response is as follows:
SNK answer man
<snkmail@snkplaymoreusa.com> to me
Show options 2:56am (5 hours ago)
Eric,
SS5 for Xbox in 2005 and we are discussing a Xbox KOF '94 as well.
Happy New Year.
www.SNKPLAYMOREUSA.com
~~~
Not too bad... from his response, it sounds as though SS5 is almost for certain going to be an Xbox release here (with live play, hopefully), and that KOF94 Rebout might actually make it out as well... The SS5 news is exciting because I'm a starving college kid and can't afford the home release (and I don't have an MVS). Good stuff... I'm keeping my fingers crossed here.
