Of the 12 (dozen) exclusive English AES releases that were distributed solely through the NeoStore, those releases were sold/shipped/delivered to the NeoStore and no one else. The Japanese versions were available to all retailers. English versions were discontinued until the NeoStore made a special request for English copies to be produced, starting with Metal Slug 3 AES. 800 copies was the combination of all of the world’s English SVC Chaos AES that were produced + the Japanese copies of SVC Chaos that the NeoStore purchased. I was asked not to reveal production quantities but I can tell you the following:
- There were a total of 800 pieces of SVC Chaos AES purchased from SNKP by the NeoStore.
- The quantity of Japanese SVC Chaos AES produced is > the quantity of English SVC Chaos AES produced.
- The quantity of English SVC Chaos AES produced is < 800 pieces.
- The NeoStore purchased less quantity of Japanese SVC Chaos AES than of English SVC Chaos AES.
- All copies of English SVC Chaos that were produced were sold and delivered to the NeoStore and no one else.
- Any retailer/distributer that SNKP was willing to deal with could order the Japanese version of SVC Chaos directly from SNKP.
- Any retailer/distributer that wanted the English version of SVC Chaos AES, could not order directly from SNKP, they were referred to the NeStore.
Just noticed this topic. I read up on the Neo Store releases a few years ago, how many were released, etc, looked at caches of the various game's pages to see when each game sold out, curious about this part of video game history. Do you have records of when the final copy of each game was sold out?
Based on those cached pages and searching the forum archives for topics mentioning sellouts, this is the best I can tell when Neo Store games sold out (English versions):
- Rage of the Dragons 3/16/03
- Metal Slug 3 8/22/03
- Metal Slug 4 1/19/04
- Metal Slug 5 3/27/04
- Sengoku 3 7/10/04
- King of Fighters 2003 1/06~5/06
- Samurai Shodown V Special 12/06~2/07 unfixed, 10/07~12/07 fixed
- Samurai Shodown V 10/08~12/08
- King of Fighters 2001 4/09~9/10
- King of Fighters 2002 after 9/10
- Matrimelee after 9/10
- Wasn't clear about SVC Chaos based on cached pages (before this topic's comments).
I understand you don't want to reveal the exact production numbers because of the agreement, but can you answer this- Your comments suggest SVC Chaos (English) had 401~799 copies made. Did SVC Chaos have more English copies (not talking about the Japanese copies you got) than any other Neo Store release? If not, where did it rank in the size of the (English) order (i.e. 2nd, 3rd, etc)? Of the 12 Neo Store games, which had the smallest production run of English carts?