TGS, DreamHack, Anime. Should be a fun weekend.
ASW will be fine. The people who are interested in Xrd are still going to buy Revelator. The people still with PS3s are going to be left out of SFV, so Revelator is also an option for them to pick up as well.
It sucks, but you can't have the game come out too early on console and screw the arcades over, or push it out further to avoid SFV and leave everyone else out without an update to play.
Arcsys is just doing what they've always done. I do wonder how long they'll keep on like this given that arcades are a shrinking market in Japan. Continuing on prioritizing a single country's shrinking arcade market over worldwide console/PC revenues seems really shortsighted.
At least this time, unlike the wait for sign, people outside of Japan can play an older version of xrd (rather than waiting to get any xrd at all) and since characters (apparently?) weren't rebalanced, they're not as out-of-the-loop as they usually would be.
It's still fucked up that for so much of an Arcsys fighter's life, people outside of Japan don't have the current version of the game. Xrd came out in Japanese arcades on February 20th, 2014- about a year and a half ago. As of now, not-Japan has had the up-to-date version for about 8 months- less than half the game's lifespan. By the time revelator comes to console, not-Japan will have had the up-to-date version for less than a third of the game's lifespan.
