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| Riskbreaker
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|  "Snk @ E3 confirmed"
, posted Mon 28 Apr 15:50:
This article is a very interesting read, it talks about a possible baseball star sequel and Metal Slug 3D.
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This year's E3Expo will mark the re-introduction of a fabled brand to North American gamers, one that is certain to induce waves of nostalgia in older gamers.
SNK is returning to the show—and North American operations—under the name SNK NEOGEO USA Consumer Corp. Ben Herman, who will head up the company as president, took some time with GameDaily to talk about SNK's return.
The SNK brand has remained active in Japan, controlled by Playmore Corp., which owns all intellectual property rights to past SNK franchises and has continued to issue updated installments for certain series. Playmore is overseeing the SNK revival in North America as well.
Herman, is no stranger to SNK, serving as vice-president of sales with SNK Entertainment (the previous North American incarnation of SNK, which folded in June of 2000) in the past. He is leaving his current position as an eastern sales manager for Nintendo to return to SNK.
The new company has its sales reps picked and, according to Herman, "contracts are in the mail." "Here in the states we are coming back to do consumer," Herman said. "We've always had a company that was doing arcade, which was renamed recently to SNK NEOGEO USA Corp." The consumer side of the business, based in Marlboro, New Jersey, was established as a separate entity, hence the new name.
SNK NEOGEO USA Consumer has already been licensed by Nintendo to deliver Game Boy Advance games. PlayStation 2, PS one, GameCube and Xbox licensing deals are also being conjsidered. "Whether it's the current generation (of consoles) that we develop for, or its new platforms in 2004 or 2005, we are going to develop for them," said Herman. "We make games in Japan for PS2, and we plan to convert them—and make others—for play here in the states."
SNK is setting up shop at this year's E3 in the West Hall, booth # 3008 and will have playable (Japanese) versions of Metal Slug Advance and King of Fighters 2001. It will also be showing video footage of SNK vs Capcom. "We have not released any games in the U.S. since King of Fighters '99," explained Herman. "I've got a backlog of games from 2000, 2001 and 2002. Down the road we will have Samurai Showdown coming and a Metal Slug 3D game will also come out eventually."
There is good news for fans of SNK's Baseball Stars series as well. Herman told GameDaily, "I'm not going to stop until we get Baseball Stars," adding that he wants any future Baseball Stars property to contain the ability to play online.
Herman said that one thing making SNK's re-entry to the market much easier is the way he, and SNK, exited the industry almost three years ago. "When we left the market, I wanted to make sure that SNK left clean and did a good job of taking back product and writing checks. That's one of the things that buyers have been quoting to the reps, noting that SNK went out, but took care of closing the business the right way."
SNK NEOGEO USA Consumer Corp. will stick to software exclusively, no hardware this time around.
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| ChunliFan 350th Post
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| "Re(1):Snk @ E3 confirmed" , posted Mon 28 Apr 15:53
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This article is a very interesting read, it talks about a possible baseball star sequel and Metal Slug 3D.
Link Here
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This year's E3Expo will mark the re-introduction of a fabled brand to North American gamers, one that is certain to induce waves of nostalgia in older gamers.
SNK is returning to the show—and North American operations—under the name SNK NEOGEO USA Consumer Corp. Ben Herman, who will head up the company as president, took some time with GameDaily to talk about SNK's return.
The SNK brand has remained active in Japan, controlled by Playmore Corp., which owns all intellectual property rights to past SNK franchises and has continued to issue updated installments for certain series. Playmore is overseeing the SNK revival in North America as well.
Herman, is no stranger to SNK, serving as vice-president of sales with SNK Entertainment (the previous North American incarnation of SNK, which folded in June of 2000) in the past. He is leaving his current position as an eastern sales manager for Nintendo to return to SNK.
The new company has its sales reps picked and, according to Herman, "contracts are in the mail." "Here in the states we are coming back to do consumer," Herman said. "We've always had a company that was doing arcade, which was renamed recently to SNK NEOGEO USA Corp." The consumer side of the business, based in Marlboro, New Jersey, was established as a separate entity, hence the new name.
SNK NEOGEO USA Consumer has already been licensed by Nintendo to deliver Game Boy Advance games. PlayStation 2, PS one, GameCube and Xbox licensing deals are also being conjsidered. "Whether it's the current generation (of consoles) that we develop for, or its new platforms in 2004 or 2005, we are going to develop for them," said Herman. "We make games in Japan for PS2, and we plan to convert them—and make others—for play here in the states."
SNK is setting up shop at this year's E3 in the West Hall, booth # 3008 and will have playable (Japanese) versions of Metal Slug Advance and King of Fighters 2001. It will also be showing video footage of SNK vs Capcom. "We have not released any games in the U.S. since King of Fighters '99," explained Herman. "I've got a backlog of games from 2000, 2001 and 2002. Down the road we will have Samurai Showdown coming and a Metal Slug 3D game will also come out eventually."
There is good news for fans of SNK's Baseball Stars series as well. Herman told GameDaily, "I'm not going to stop until we get Baseball Stars," adding that he wants any future Baseball Stars property to contain the ability to play online.
Herman said that one thing making SNK's re-entry to the market much easier is the way he, and SNK, exited the industry almost three years ago. "When we left the market, I wanted to make sure that SNK left clean and did a good job of taking back product and writing checks. That's one of the things that buyers have been quoting to the reps, noting that SNK went out, but took care of closing the business the right way."
SNK NEOGEO USA Consumer Corp. will stick to software exclusively, no hardware this time around.
Truely awesome!
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| Sensenic 548th Post
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| "Re(7):Snk @ E3 confirmed" , posted Tue 29 Apr 03:52
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Anyway, while this news doesn't REALLY concern me, I'm happy for everybody. ^_^
Hopefully the SvsC footage at E3 will silence the whiners, too (actually, you can never silence them all, people whine no matter what.)
Boo...they'll surely be some blurry, made in low quality on purpose, videos just to make us suffer more and without really showing anything new.
Nah... I can't wait to see them!
Metal Slug 3D? hmmmm....I guess it'll still take its time, it's too soon to wonder.
Oh, BTW. Will this SNKNeoGeo USA coming back mean new name & story changes & censorship in the mew games?  (Someone had to ask it. I'm an optimistic person, ain't I?)
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| DKW
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| "Re(1):Snk @ E3 confirmed" , posted Mon 5 May 23:46
Before you read my response to this breaking development, you need to understand the following:
1. I think it's a horrible, horrible thing that so many video game companies have gone under or nearly gone under in what seems like months.
2. SNK was the only company I could consistently rely on for easy-to-learn, uncomplicated, cathartic, FUN games (sorry, Konami; after the Gradius series, Evil Night, and Keyboardmania, you no longer qualify). I prayed for the Neo Geo to be a hit and was distressed that they couldn't even put those 16-bit travesties out of their misery.
3. I have only the vaguest notion of the modern corporate structure of these sprawling videogame companies. Up until a couple of years ago, I had no idea that Konami of America and Konami of Japan (not to mention KOJ's 25 of so subdivisons) were completely separate companies.
4. Don't get me started on Atari.
That said, I'm thrilled as anyone that SNK is back in the saddle. I have no problem with them being software only, as they've more than proven that they don't know crap about selling console. Now maybe all this incredibly tiresome banter about death and lawsuits and bankruptcy and struture and ownership and deals etc. etc. can end and we can all start playing again!
And believe me, after looking at the PS2's lineup, much less the X-Box's, we could definitely use some SNK know-how.
All right! Will remain posted.
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