Posted by SignOfZeta on May 27, 2020 at 18:36:54 EST in reply to I have no idea if it was really at its peak, my impression was it was bleeding money for the company, and what I've been told by devs is they hated working on it (which is why more stuff started getting outsourced to companies like yumekobo). Eventually I'll get the straight answer to this, but I think it was a money-losing venture from the start basically - with car companies they have venues other than sales with which to recoup, and maybe that's what SNK needed to look into. Package the thing with some happy meals and give it away at coachella or something (I'm using my 1999 brain here). (n/t) from exodus.
By “peak” I mean creatively which it certainly was. CF2 and Faselei had just been released, with Faselei being snatched half way to the store almost. It couldn’t have paid more to recall all those just made carts, manually destroy all the boxes, and sell the shit off to a wholesaler. At the time this seemed like an extreme measure to protect their reputation with retailers but for what purpose? They didn’t have a thing to sell after that! So was it just typical closing up shop behavior to satisfy creditors? I still don’t get it.
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