A friend sent me a link to this last night. I don’t follow video game industry news much at all outside of what I read on SB but I think this is a good presentation (both the content and the delivery).
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All the early games that attempted it were banned for excessive gores.
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First Tokyo arcade to go bankrupt due to corona, and it’s a big one at that.
edit: Game Paradise 01 in Yokosuka has about a day left to live:
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Jeez. Broke my heart when they were closed last week. I guess I have played my last ever Para Para Paradise.
I am scrutinising Mikado’s twitter feed harder than ever
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I am excited about games gaining the ability of universal (near future?) SSDs more than 25% more teraflops of graphics, but is that the fanboy in me or IDK
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samsho finally confirmed for PC, on epic
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…huh
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Generation Zero 2
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HUH!?
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cc @BustedAstromech i guess we really will see!
Takeaway here is:
- that Epic probably paid SNK a bunch for this, which is good because SNK runs on, like, zero money and doing this helps them to make more games, which everyone wants
- SNK’s using Unreal for everything now, so
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oh yeah, no doubt, I don’t have a problem with it, epic is basically a midbudget game subsidy at this point
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I’m always happier if something exists than doesn’t, there’s at least some small chance it’s good and lovely
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Yep, from the stories I’ve heard Epic store exclusivity is worth at least a small indie’s budget; at their scale (I’d guess Samurai Shodown to be $15-25m) it should cover their port costs ($30-60k) plus a few months of expected sales. Potential costs would be weakening the PC community, which could drastically cut into their tail of sales over the next two years.
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I have no idea what Epic’s multiplayer APIs are like, all I have on there is Outer Wilds, Control, Wattam, and the freebies
I would have been surprised if Samurai Shodown sold any kind of well on PC so taking Google money followed by taking Epic money in exchange for having virtually no PC playerbase is probably the best series of decisions SNK could have made.
Edit: The most curious thing is that the Epic Store page titles it “Samurai Shodown Reboot”, and earlier in the day someone said it was listing Digital Eclipse as the developer. DE is handling the Samurai Shodown Collection so it would be interesting if they got involved with the PC port of SS7 somehow.
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Getting a smaller pile of money upfront to pay back development is usually my bias but I’m burned from…every game release I’ve ever been 2 degrees of separation from
God, the idea of midrange games existing in 2020 is so wild.
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I bought that new Terminator game precisely because it is basically like the b-tier games of the aughts.
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