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|  "Re(2):Why baaaaaad?"
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A DC port is a baaaaad idea.
Why do you say that. The DC has a better Arcade stix than PS2 and it has better 2-d powers.
If this is about copies, Hell just look around the net, you can already get a copy these games.
Because, while it'll be good for DC owners, catering to a hardcore audience on a dead system is really, really bad business sense. This is exactly the kind of thing that helped cause SNK to go under. If Playmore/Eolith was smart, they'd port it to one of the popular consoles (which they are doing), and get some real advertising going.
The arcade stick is irrelivant. Don't like the PS2 controller (and I personally really do for fighters), then go out and buy one that's more suitable for your tastes.
There are millions of Dreamcast owners. In that sense its not really catering to hardcore audiance. THere is always high demand for SNK/Playmore games. And if they release a game for the system, then the system's not dead. They can also always easily release the game for more then one system.
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| Satoshi Miwa 1181th Post
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| "Re(5):Why baaaaaad?" , posted Tue 25 Jun 13:46
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Yep, therefore releasing a limited quantity of japanese KOF 2001 gd roms would not affect them at all if released with the newer console versions.
Look at the flashing dog!
At first it would seem that way, but then you have to relize a few things....
A) It's going to cost extra to produce a DC run, since it's a different machine with a different medium (GD-Rom's). Not to mention the cost of producing GD-Rom's is probably high reight now given the DC dying state
B) The DC version will have to sell against the Ps2 version, and the PS2 had a regular habit of out selling the DC when the system was alive.
C) The current DC marketplace seems, for the most part, to be the Visual Novel/Date Sim/Japanese PC game crowd, as those seem to be the only titles hitting the sales charts in Japan (Granted, there the only DC games being released).
Now if your Playmore, you have to take all 3 of these issues into account. You have to factor in the production costs of the GD-Rom, and do the market research to see if the DC crowd will still buy a fighting game at high enough levels to make money on it. And then you have to make sure that the PS2 version doesn't steal away the DC sales. Which is the real kicker, given the dominace of the PS2 in Japan right now.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have the game on the DC. And if it can make money on the system then it'd be all the better. But I don't think Playmore CAN make the money back given the costs, and the fact a PS2 version would pretty well take most of the DC consumers. I think the bottom line will hit them hard if they release the game, especially with it coming out so late in the year (Though if KOF 2k sells well for the DC, then ignore what I said...^^ Though they should release that for the pS2 as well).
And...and...Ohh...Flashing Dog...*drools*
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