Yeah, but you have to actually compete. Gamble-ing is a cash cow. Idiot has money, machine takes money from idiot, profit. Nobody's going to complain that your net code has too much lag in it. Fuck, half of those guys are so drunk they don't even know which machine their pissing their paycheck INTO. Honestly? I wouldn't consider it smart to invest in any kind of video game stuff. Consoles are fucked. Handhelds, doubly so. Mobile is healthy on the whole, but getting your game noticed without a billion dollar ad campaign is nigh on impossible. It seems just...impossible, that this decision would make sense. Maybe they pissed off the yakuza and got strong armed out of the business? Maybe SNK president was born again? Does SNK actually have more than five full time employees in the gaming division? What have they even released recently?

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Posted by SignOfZeta on November 06, 2015 at 20:02:28 EST in reply to The gaming (possibly mobile) market has more opportunity than the pachinko market. Its surprising, but not necessarily weird! (n/t) from Mental.

Yeah, but you have to actually compete. Gamble-ing is a cash cow. Idiot has money, machine takes money from idiot, profit. Nobody's going to complain that your net code has too much lag in it. Fuck, half of those guys are so drunk they don't even know which machine their pissing their paycheck INTO. Honestly? I wouldn't consider it smart to invest in any kind of video game stuff. Consoles are fucked. Handhelds, doubly so. Mobile is healthy on the whole, but getting your game noticed without a billion dollar ad campaign is nigh on impossible. It seems just...impossible, that this decision would make sense. Maybe they pissed off the yakuza and got strong armed out of the business? Maybe SNK president was born again? Does SNK actually have more than five full time employees in the gaming division? What have they even released recently?

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I REALLY dont want to piss anyone off, but your accurate description of the average gambler sounds like the average mobile gamer. Except of course, gamblers need to walk to an ATM, and most mobile gamers have their bank accounts directly linked, often without even the hurdle of password protection, to their accounts. "What are you telling me my friend is playing, dear phone? Its 0.99? Purchase made". "The iphone now has folder support! I was so annoyed that i had 16 pages of games to scroll through!"

(Mental)

(09:28:28 11/07/15 EST)

that's a pretty outdated view. most folks are trying out the free games to see if they like them, then paying for items in the ones their friends may be playing, or just the ones that are popular. It's not so different from a rental/purchase model in the old days, just a lot easier, and the games are more like work than fun.

(exodus)

(15:20:18 11/10/15 EST)

Yeah, but there is that one random dipshit that for some reason instead of spending $1 spends $678. Pachinko and mobile still want that guy.

(SignOfZeta)

(16:03:04 11/10/15 EST)

the only thing I can think of is that SNK is going to turn into a licensing-only shell under the chinese company that bought it. the licenses are still worth something to them, so they'll just farm out development of SNK f2p titles, I'm guessing. Still though, it doesn't make sense to leave the pachinko market unless they're really getting beat up there, and that just seems so unlikely. Konami is all in on this stuff (can't say the actual word on this site!) for a reason.

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(15:18:44 11/10/15 EST)

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