I wonder if they got the license from G-mode to do an "exclusive" Ghostlop release.
I wouldn't be surprised if they never release a title that's not owned by SNK Playmore. If you look at the pre-loaded games, they are all originally SNK or SNK/ADK except for Metal Slug but SNK Playmore owns the MS rights now.
Everyone keeps talking about the need for more game titles to be released, and I agree that would be nice but people interested enough in this are going to buy it regardless. I imagine the people at Tommo/Blaze going, "Fuck! Are you kidding me? We're releasing this thing with 21 games and they're still fucking complaining." Lol! You have to go into this with low/no expectations of anything else being offered other than what comes out at initial release, and if you're okay with that, buy it. That way, it's irrelevant whether or not they release more games. Just my opinion. In the meantime, Happy Halloween everyone!
It's not that the 21 games are bad per se. If you look at the pre-loaded games, a whopping 13 of the 20 (or 21 if you count Ninja Master's) were originally released between 1990 and 1992. I'll probably regularly play about 4 of those 13 (Magician Lord, Puzzled, Last Resort, and Baseball Stars 2). While there are some ok games in the other 9, the rest I would either not play at all or would only play in the absence of other better neo games. None of those 13 titles are deciding factors in purchasing the system.
That leaves 8 titles that are '93 and later releases. Out of those, 3 Count Bout and WHP are not going to have units flying off of shelves. So that leaves 6 compelling titles: FFS, SS2, KOF95, MS, RBFFS, and Ninja Master's.
While those are good games, long term they aren't enough in and of themselves. Yes they're giving us 21 titles, but the NGX is going to be competing with other mobile devices that can already run these games through emulation. In order to do well they will have to stand out on both their hardware and library availability. People aren't going to care if they can play the entire library or not, but there are going to be some key titles that need to be available at some point, and since they're marketing to a savvy demographic they will need to release those games before people figure out how to hack it.
They're not going to drop money to secure the licenses until they know how well the initial install is, once they do that they'll start making a move on what games to buy and go from there.
