Let's take a look back at what SNK Playmore has released over the past year. Since the start of 2012, there have been:
-6 games for the iPhone/Android (3 ports, 1 card game, 1 original IP and one scaled-down KOF XIII port)
-19 Wii Virtual Console ports (zilch for PSN and XBLA)
-4 Pachislot machines (with two more coming out over the next two months this year)
-1 Arcade "Game" (a slightly upgraded KOF XIII known as "The King Of Fighters XIII: Climax")
-Zero console games (nothing for the handhelds, either)
Add it all up, and it looks like SNK Playmore is slowly becoming the company Aruze wanted it to be more than a decade ago.
Of course, I could be wrong, and the revenue from all those pachislot machines might go towards a new arcade game (like, say, KOF XIV or Samurai Shodown VII), but given everything SNKP has (or hasn't) done in the last year, it's hard not to think that they're just spinning their wheels (and spinning themselves into the ground). (Heck, there's not even a single mention of the Neo-Geo X on the company's homepage.)
So, my question to you, long-timers and greenhorns alike, is, given SNKP's current state, will they make it past 2013? Answer in the poll above and discuss.
-6 games for the iPhone/Android (3 ports, 1 card game, 1 original IP and one scaled-down KOF XIII port)
-19 Wii Virtual Console ports (zilch for PSN and XBLA)
-4 Pachislot machines (with two more coming out over the next two months this year)
-1 Arcade "Game" (a slightly upgraded KOF XIII known as "The King Of Fighters XIII: Climax")
-Zero console games (nothing for the handhelds, either)
Add it all up, and it looks like SNK Playmore is slowly becoming the company Aruze wanted it to be more than a decade ago.
Of course, I could be wrong, and the revenue from all those pachislot machines might go towards a new arcade game (like, say, KOF XIV or Samurai Shodown VII), but given everything SNKP has (or hasn't) done in the last year, it's hard not to think that they're just spinning their wheels (and spinning themselves into the ground). (Heck, there's not even a single mention of the Neo-Geo X on the company's homepage.)
So, my question to you, long-timers and greenhorns alike, is, given SNKP's current state, will they make it past 2013? Answer in the poll above and discuss.