SNK is dead!
Yeah right.? SNKP will continue making Pachinko and mobile phone dating sims for a good while longer.? KOF XIII is dead!? Uh… maybe.? But highly unlikely.? So the producer leaves, so what?? He left, he wasn’t fired, or made redundant.? There are situations where an employee can be asked to leave, but let’s not forget that Masaaki Kukino actually worked for Konami around the year 2000.? Why did he leave, if not simply to move on and get a better job???
His departure does not mean anything about the end of KOF or a cancelled port to consoles.? Now we have the other report about the new SNKP President not being that keen on KOF.? Well, looking at KOF XII’s sales in Japan, that’s fair enough.? Looking at sales abroad should have actually turned that around.? Then, looking at KOF XIII’s arcade sales?and activity should have some bearing on the decision to continue to develop the XIII port.? Considering the revenue brought in by?Neogeo Station/Xbox?Arcade and the potential revenue of XIII DLC, it seems?a bit silly to not?finish the job.?
On the other hand, outsourcing programmers to have this code done without bugs compared to simply porting an emulator to PS3 and re-releasing old games for a market of old gamers who don’t have time for games in the first place…?
Let’s look at this from a business point of view, because essentially that’s what SNKP is, a profit making company.? If there is projected profit in a venture, you undertake it.? There are risks and costs, but that’s business.? How high is the risk of loss to make a XIII port?? How high is the potential of revenue of DLC?? How much against the cost of marketing and?programmers?
In this time of recession and corner cutting, I expect the producer to be replaced by a much cheaper and less experienced person who will then make their career make or break move in getting the port out to PS3 and 360.? I also expect the netcode to be crap (or at least just at my house) and there to be new DLC characters that will break the game.? If nobody buys the game + DLC, then that’s it, KOF is over.? XIII was the unlucky number for SNKP.? Note: The Future is not Now, it hasn’t happened yet.? Let’s see what happens.
Oh and by the way, those people who moan and bitch and do nothing as usual on the Internet, tell them to buy a SNK game through XBLA or PSN.? That money goes to SNKP.? That increases the sales figures.? Sales figures make companies think “hey wow there’s profit in this.? We should do more of this”.? Once they have released every game they can think of, then they have no choice but to make NEW games… like KOF XIV or at least KOF XIII UM
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No offence taken. I just don’t have time to really focus on more than one KOF at a time, and if you look at the results of the poll about how many games can people handle these days, most people are the same. 2002um is the most polished KOF produced and it’s not even a finished game. When XIII comes out, I will probably ditch 2002um and never look at it again. 98FE does look tempting, but the simple fact is the timing between new skool and old skool KOF messes me up so bad I just can’t handle both. I suck. As for Capcom, I remember hearing that after 2001, the character rights were bought SNK off by “someone” and then sold back to SNKP. SNKP won’t die and they will hang on to their characters, that’s why you’ll see them in countless comeos on pachinkos and other games. What really is in danger is the future of further KOF titles. We can only hope XIII is a success on console, otherwise, that’s the end.
A little bird told me that Capcom might take it upon themselves to continue the KOF series if SNK were to really “die”.
I doubt this is true, but it’s probable…
I’m gonna be optimistic about this situation, cause I know for a fact that SNK will never really “die”. They would, at most, just become nothing but a publisher.
If they do continue strong, I hope that with the departure of the producer they can revert the style of the series to how it used to be. By that, I mean try not to make the characters seem too… Stereotypical?
Keep the pixel sprites, by all means. Please do. They’re amazing, don’t get me wrong. I just don’t like the anime-ish traits the characters have been getting. The ladies, especially.
Also, I apologize for the lack of activity on the website. The way you guys treat 2k2 UM being the only important KOF nowadays is sickening. No offense…
You said you wouldn’t come back last time, and the time before that. Your trolling makes us laugh
You guys make me laugh real hard. How late is this and you guys don’t even know it’s a rumor.Muchless later in this event an SNK represntative had confirmed this speculation to be non-coanon.While I laugh at you how bout I tell you they are quote, “stil planning on making games in 2011,and long into the future”.Please bite your tongue.Cause I guess I can’t laugh to much after seeing update after update of 1 week outdated news.It gets old.Whats next week huh?You found out what I just told you about SNK?*psh, find a better hobby.Don’t worry about replying. This site is so annoying that I’d rather just delete my tab so I don’t click it.Goodbye Orochinagi tab hello Kotaku tab.Well..your ignorance is bliss to me.tadah.
Thanks for the link nathan, although SNKP’s statement doesn’t confirm XIII specifically….
Bullet Proof is right to be concerned about the next producer though, big shoes to fill, Kukino did a great job, a shame to see him go!
As for online petitions, well, you’ve seen the ps3 2002um poll for starters… SNKP know about it but haven’t officially responded… as soon as we get a western rep, I’ll be on his case asap, don’t you worry!
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“SNKP is staying in the game”
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6286721.html
thank you, jesus.
god i really hope this doesn’t get canceled =/ was waiting for kof13 more than any game this year, been watching all the youtube videos of it for months…
by the way do you have a higher resolution version of that picture you posted?
yeah.
im with k-man.
we should make a online petition or something.
i really love snk games and with the reports of mizufune focusing in pachinko and not videogames, all my hopes for a garou 2 are shattered.
truth to be told, i dont really care about the future of the company anymore but i think they should port xiii as a goodbye present for us fans.
im been playing snk fighters since fatal fury 2, and i been buying snk games to support the company everytime they release something, i have all the games (even the crappy ones).
and i think we fans, deserve a port of kof xiii.
sorry if i make a mistake writing in english, it’s not my language (im from Chile).
Besides buying the online games, why not get a petition going. One report said the Mizufune (the new SNKp president) said there’d be focus on pachinkos and licensing (such as porting old titles). Just buying the games online may help, but probably not in the way we expect them to be helped. More profit plus a specific fan demand might work even better for us.
All I wish is that Mizufune would say the video game department is halted temporarily, but would still release XIII soon and re-tool departments.
LOL…. nah man…. dead 🙂
But seriously I agree. I doubt his departure will have any major impact on the KOF 13 console release.
Still, KOF13 looks bloody amazing, so he obviously did a good job. If KOF continues, can we trust who ever is hired next to do a good job?
KOF 12 wasnt all that, but Kukino put it right in the next game. How many attempts would it take next mans??