Shooter developer Psikyo goes out of business...

[Eight One]

/me looks up to sky...to see the X-36 and Shinden flying above!!

R.I.P.

[xS]

We'll miss the ending of Strikers 1945*sniff*. Such boldness.

[Captain Vegetable]

It's a damn shame.

[Click_Stick]

Yah, I thought they were pretty much in the grave when X-Nauts scooped them up? Hm.

[Victrix]

Eh. Shooter companies never die, they just go bankrupt and get resurrected in another form (Toaplan->Cave->Dodonpachi->Rejoice!)

... or so my optimist says

[xS]

I doubt that they'll rise from their gwave. The market was much bigger back then.

[Victrix]

Hey, SNK came back right? Ok granted, that's a special case, but still... the programmers, artists, musicians, and designers will likely find new jobs. Much as the larger companies are going through mergers now, it's possible that the smaller teams will wind up sharing bunkspace. Or at least I hope. I'd rather they not wind up doing Super Mahjong Fighter EX...

[Yoshi]

Psikyo is dead, and Tecmo is making a killing.

[Despair]

Yoshi, Trust me, there are many companies worse than Tecmo that continue to exist, so dont pick on on poor T.

[xS]

Originally posted by Victrix
Hey, SNK came back right? Ok granted, that's a special case, but still... the programmers, artists, musicians, and designers will likely find new jobs. Much as the larger companies are going through mergers now, it's possible that the smaller teams will wind up sharing bunkspace. Or at least I hope. I'd rather they not wind up doing Super Mahjong Fighter EX...

SNK used be an arcade giant( at least so I think), but Psikyo was a small team. The 2 main shooter houses these days are Cave and Taito, and I doubt that they'd be wanting to expand at a time like this.

On a more optimistic note, the Aerofighters/ Sonic Wings games play very similar to Psikyos games, so we might see something similar if the SW team is alive