SNKP is a mess of a company.
They don't have the resources or even staff to produce great games. Just enjoy the old stuff and polish your gameplay there. All the best stuff that could ever exist already exists. If nothing ever came from them again I'd be okay with what I've been given.
I've wanted a Last Blade 3 for ages..
Thing is.. SNK WAS NEO-GEO. They mastered that platform. They mastered it so well there games still had some function of modern appeal after having been made 14 years later on the same damn hardware.
SNK isn't a company that can just make stuff on random alien hardware, they don't have that staff and muscle companies like Capcom have in spades. They can't even get games out at a speed enough to keep their own economy going. It can only last so long.
I bet ark gets a few ip's and Capcom gets a few in the near future.
I don't like Capcom much anymore either for fighters. As far as I'm concerned, everyone's best days is behind everyone.. If its been years and years and that hasn't changed, there's no reason to invest blind hope.
KOF XIII will probably be ported, and
pray it is done by some outside company, because SNKP can't get anything right for netcode.
They need to fix the juggling, that game has MVSC2 tier-itis and corner juggles from hell. Really rotten over sight for such a long term time investment. They even stopped patching the damn game.
They quit to easily and are under staffed to begin with.
BTW, KOF is done in my view. Its over. There is to damn many, and the last worthy title of classic appeal was KOF 2002.
98UM AND 2002UM were good money makers to, but they weren't even new games. I'm sick of KOF, and SNK can't make money off any fighting game other then KOF and SS.. Worse, the last released SS is a write off.
What is the incentive to play KOF XIII where like every character in the game has seemingly easier 100% combo's in the corner? I may as well just play KOF 2002, which is somehow less broken with all its infinite's and other max mode BS, because at least under tiered characters can really stand a chance. SNK's place in the gaming world is a virtual impossibility. None of their franchises have any lastability with all the new innovation, they aren't with the new generation on any level, so there is zero long term profit margin, and worse? They have the worst marketing strategy on the planet. Once asia stops caring about KOF, thats it.
It won't be long either because China aint the poor shithole it used to be, and they may get different series and other things.
Other nations poverty has been a SNK profit margin piggy back. Mexico, Pakistan, China, etc.
There is a reason all the best KOF players in the world are from china. Set ups wouldn't destroy businesses, and really old kof's had long term appeal.. Then ironically, the bootleggers buried SNK, and that's it. You wanna blame anyone, just blame everyone, because we can't force people to care. Only thing people care about now is MVSC3. Capcom OWNS and controls the entire market of fighting games now and in the future. And ONO has a wealth of titles he'll water down in a shitty way to make money.
If MvC3 is an indication, I flat-out hate the direction of Capcom these days.
But I didn't like Capcom's handling of the SNK characters in CvS, either. Shitty character designs and wacky presentation. If SNKP isn't going to use these characters and IPs, I'd just as soon no one did.
I want the XIII port to come out. After that, whatever. They've been playing with my emotions for a decade and I'm having trouble working up the energy to care anymore.
I totally agree.
I barely give a shit. SNK news is a ZZZ factor for me.