SNK Playmore leaving games - going to Pachinko and slots ?!?!
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I guess this is part 1 of Trieu's big announcement.
I pray for the day I can cruise to AC and play a MS slot.
Otherwise, this really blows. It looks like they're going to milk the cash cow that is KOF, SS and MS and just abandon the rest, most likely licensing or selling the IP's to Sammy or Capcom or whoever will move in and let them do the dirty work.
Smart buisness decision, no doubt, but pretty shitty from a fanboy's perspective.
Hopefully, though, whoever starts producing the games will update them a bit, perhaps innovate some stagnant games.
It was bound to happen, though. Weird, SNK as primarily a gambling company.
I pray for the day I can cruise to AC and play a MS slot.
Otherwise, this really blows. It looks like they're going to milk the cash cow that is KOF, SS and MS and just abandon the rest, most likely licensing or selling the IP's to Sammy or Capcom or whoever will move in and let them do the dirty work.
Smart buisness decision, no doubt, but pretty shitty from a fanboy's perspective.
Hopefully, though, whoever starts producing the games will update them a bit, perhaps innovate some stagnant games.
It was bound to happen, though. Weird, SNK as primarily a gambling company.
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A moveable feast indeed.....where is the money?
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Agreed 100%. Frankly I couldn't care what they do as long that they don't go under. Keeping SNKP alive is a good thing, at least there will still be hope for future NG releases... hopefully.VanillaThunder said:
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Actually from what I'm reading they are going to focus on making Pachinko slots, but they are still going to make games.
They're just saying that they will be depending on Pachinko slots as their number one money maker (and most invested product).
Those Sammy rumors are sounding better and better everyday.
At least Sammy likes to make games.
the roker said:
Last year Sammy released 10 games for the consumer market.
The only one we all know about is Guilty Gear Reload.
The year before that (2002) they released 10 games - But only ones you'd know of are Guilty Gear XX and Guilty Gear for the GBA...
And from 2000~2001 they only made 10 games. Other than Guilty Gear X, you wouldn't care about the rest of the game (one was Guilty Gear Puchi)
This year Sammy has 1 game lined up so far: 7 Samurai 20XX.
Finally a game that's hyped that has nothing to do with Guilty Gear.
But the point is, they don't like to make games. They like to make A game, and a bunch of garbage.
EvilWasabi said:
Sammy doesn't make any games, they're just a publisher. Cept now they're a publisher with an arcade platform to push.
The "other games" you're alluding to are games like Deer Hunter, Beach Head, etc.
Shit that does very, very, very, very, very well in sales. Far fucking better than it should. At least in the states anyway. That and Sammy makes a ton of money off Pachinko.
So yeah they've got a big arcade platform to push and no big line up to populate it with. Thing is, they've got more money than they know what to do with from this other stuff.
You know what they're going to do now...
