Posted by exodus on November 10, 2015 at 15:18:44 EST in reply to 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? (n/t) from SignOfZeta.
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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