A Pile of Bad News from SNK USA

Well, Live Arcade isn't 5 dollars across the board. aLSO, MOST PEOPLE WON'T PAY MUCH MORE FOR THEIR GAMES.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

I think the issue here is that they want more than $5 for their games, so no Live Arcade or Virtual Console. It's hard to stay in business if that's all you're getting for your main products.

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But if they're charging that per game then the Metal Slug Anthology nets them $25 for each full collection someone makes, and that's an extra $5 for each one of those that they wouldn't be otherwise getting from people that only own a 360. When you consider that XBLA has no shipping or printing costs and no worries of over/understock, it's basically free money (minus whatever it took to quickly port them to the format).

SNK is so dumb.

Also, Sony.

Smart: Metal Slug Collection and game double and triple-packs. Also, XBLA. They'll sell if cheap.

SNK will come up with the worst use of the wii controller for metal slug, but they'll probably include a classic control scheme as well.

The whole reason why I started importing games was when I noticed that certain 2D games would take substantially longer to come to the US if they even made it at all.

This was in 1995.

Why anyone should be shocked that 2D games are still mostly shafted for the US in the year 2006 is beyond my comprehension. People who want 2D games get Japanese systems, since that's where they're released, or get the MAME roms. To say there's no US market for Twinkle Star Sprites is a completely fair assessment, as far as I can tell.

Agreed, as long as I can use digital control for MS series, I don't really care about the new Wii control (MS needs absolute perfect control to survive the later later stages.... don't think the motion sensor can really handle that).

And it is too bad that 2D is dead on 360/PS3, or perhaps, just a sorry ass excuse from SNK USA.

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Originally Posted by Tonic the Drunkhog

SNK will come up with the worst use of the wii controller for metal slug, but they'll probably include a classic control scheme as well.

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You'd think that, wouldn't you?

Just like how they included an option to go back to the original continue method in Metal Slug 3, right?

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Originally Posted by RoleTroll

Will we get the classic Neo games on the Virtual Console?

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The thing with the Virtual Console right now is, at least from what I understood, at least initially is the "Console" part of that name. SNK is looking at their SNES and Genesis stuff, but as for arcade games, they'd need to have a NeoGeo emulator in place.

I'm sure that once things get going, there will be original games make for the VC, and at that point it might happen. It certainly seems like Nintendo is the most welcoming to them.

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

but as for arcade games, they'd need to have a NeoGeo emulator in place.

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I'm sure there's 23,000 college kids in this country alone that could code that emulator over their lunch hour. Shouldn't be too hard for SNK/Nintendo to do themselves.