SomedayTheFire
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Rumor from Japan: SNK Playmore has left Pachinko business
- Thread starter Hayama Akito
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Yes? Not quite sure I understand how that is relevant to the industry declining. If you know something, I'm all ears.
They've been in the business for a while. They sell a lot of gambling equipment overseas, so I doubt this will affect them too much.
Mobile games next and I'll be in heaven...
Yeah I used to go there during the MVS days of KOF.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
You would most likely be dead before that ever happens honestly.
Well, market expansion with slot machines could revitalize the industry, I reckon.
We can only hope...
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Money is money regardless, which is why as mentioned before must have been their specific machines out on the market are not performing up to expectation therefore the reasonable decision was to cut production now. Even more so considering the current climate of the declining pachislot market where competition is fierce. Esp the fact that favorites already exist.
InsaneTiger
Member
Konami taking over the market.
DangerMouse
Member
sixteen-bit
Member
Apparently there's pending legalization of gambling in Japan. If so it would be wiser to get out than go all in on pachinko.
Though I guess Konami does make slot machines
I suspect that if SNKP created an Indigogo campaign to fund a Garou 2 right now they'd reach their funding goal yesterday.
This just in: http://www.yugi-nippon.com/?p=3591
Apparently they're closing the pachinko offices and transferring that staff to the game division.
Apparently they're closing the pachinko offices and transferring that staff to the game division.
2015 is truly the year of dreams coming true.
Choppasmith
Member
Hype rising! Best SNK news in a while.
People don't hate Pachinko. People hate video games no longer being produced in favor of Pachinko/Pachinko business not being affected.
It's just like the mobile hate.
Shifu-Sushi
Neo Member
WTF !
What is going on in SNK Playmore ? I don't understand..
What is going on in SNK Playmore ? I don't understand..
Megawarrior
Member
There is hope for KofXIV
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
oh .. so basically the inevitable shift in gaming..
don't hate adept ..
i personally think my iphone 6+ has the best version of ff7..
Shifu-Sushi
Neo Member
This is the return of SNK P in console market ?!
I think if Konami does return to the AAA scene they won't have any problems. It'll look just like this.
stop posting this
it doesn't mean what you think it means
Sumio Mondo
Member
If this decline of pachinko hits Konami, I'll be glad, they made their bet on the wrong horse. If they do return to game production again, I'll like "it's okay, I forgive you, now give me a new Goemon, you drat bastard, you".
silvermember
Banned
Weird is putting it kindly, I feel like there is a better word to describe them.
Then again, it does explain why EA can win worse company in America in the same year, U.S bank completely screwed over hundreds of thousands out of their homes.
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Jotamide
Unconfirmed Member
Oh wow. This is tho first time I've read about a gaming company putting resources from Pachinko/Mobile/Browser games back into regular game dev. 😮
Wow! Dynamite!
It's highly likely that it will be awful, just look at the teaser trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2wU_1y3NkQ
balladofwindfishes
Member
Like bizarro-world Konami
SNK has historically been blessed with excellent artists and cursed with questionable businessmen.
They have new Chinese owners, and they seem committed to cleaning up the company's act to some extent - they intervened in the Square Enix legal process, and now this, so maybe that's a good sign.
I just hope they don't neglect the world outside Asia...
Yeah, you can totally get a handle on the gameplay mechanics with a fifteen second teaser.
KOF is huge in game centers in China and it's likely the new owners will be captializing on the success with new games...for game centers!
And besides, Metal Slug Defense and their Neo Geo ports on iOS are great.
"And so, with the help of their new friends from China, the Kusanagi and Yagami clans once were able to band together, in order to end the curse of the vile Pachinko clan..."
Snkfanatic
Banned
I think if Konami does return to the AAA scene they won't have any problems. It'll look just like this.
I think at this point everyone on the internet has seen this image.
Gameplay mechanics aren't everything.
Chinese characters have actually been getting more relevant in the KoF story for the past few years, between the dragon power stuff between Kensou and Bao since 99, the Flying Bragand assasins of which Lin, Lon and Duo Lon are part, Shen Woo, and Shion's teaser appearance in the secret ending to XIII's Story mode.
In a fighting game it's about 80%.
bullshit number but it's wayyyyy important
Models can look like ass after the beautiful shit they gave us before, it's the rebuilding season, I got hope
No kidding.
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- Tons of long-awaited sequels, like Fallout 4, Mafia 3, etc.
Anything I missed?
They are switching to 3D, how can you have any hope?
How so? From what I heard Konami is betting BIG in mobile and gambling in Japan and they also export Slot Machines overseas so I can't see them suffering that much with the decline of Pachinko =/
I can't say anything until I see at least a match or two.
And neither should an entire game's worth be judged based on 15 seconds on what was likely very rough alpha footage.
It's like people forget that SF4 looked very bad and very rough when it was first revealed.
Now, granted, I'm not expecting the world from SNKP's 3D capabilities. But I'm at least expecting something that's a) serviceable and b) would enable them to make more character models as quickly as possible. Because in the end, I'm sure the reason they're going for the lower-end when it comes to 3D graphics is because the focus is on making the roster pretty large. Especially if that target roster of "~50 characters" that they talked about holds up (along with the desire for something that played closer to '98).
Loona said:
Yeah, I know. I was just being cheeky~!
But on that note...it'd be nice if upcoming games in the sake finally did shed some light on what exactly is going on with the Chinese-related threads in the lore that have some threads that have been left dangling since as early as 2001.
Segata Sanshiro lives on in Project X Zone 2, and reunited with his waifu to boot.
Wasn't arcade and console Dissidia also announced this year?