Gaming News So Small It Gets a Second Thread

[briareos_kerensky]

Electronics Gaming Development Company, owned by Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman, has acquire over 96% of SNK.

https://www.snk-corp.co.jp/kr/ir/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Results_of_Tender_Offer_Korea_220210_English-2.pdf

[Nu-Eclipse]

Electronics Gaming Development Company, owned by Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman, has acquire over 96% of SNK.

https://www.snk-corp.co.jp/kr/ir/wp-..._English-2.pdf

[Nu-Eclipse]

In other non-murderous Saudi regime trying to gameswash news, Square-Enix appear to have trademarked "Tactics Ogre: Reborn" in Japan.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/04/keep-calm-but-square-enix-has-trademarked-tactics-ogre-reborn-in-japan

[Cassius_Smoke]

Electronics Gaming Development Company, owned by Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman, has acquire over 96% of SNK.

https://www.snk-corp.co.jp/kr/ir/wp-..._English-2.pdf

And that's the end of SNK. It'll be pumping out Mobile games now.
SNK Vs capcom will always be special.

[Nu-Eclipse]

And that's the end of SNK. It'll be pumping out Mobile games now.
SNK Vs capcom will always be special.

SNK were special long before they collaborated with Capcom.

A dark day for gaming IMHO.

[Cassius_Smoke]

SNK were special long before they collaborated with Capcom.

A dark day for gaming IMHO.

100%. I love Samurai Showdown and Fatal Fury. But I remember being really excited when I saw SNK Vs capcom in the shop. A mash up of both rosters?! Yes please. Its a really solid fighter too.

[Dogg Thang]

And that's the end of SNK. It'll be pumping out Mobile games now.

And murdering journalists.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Possible FF9 Remake on the books. I hope so.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/final-fantasy-9-remake-looks-more-likely-following-kingdom-hearts-4-announcement/

[Dogg Thang]

Feels like it’s going to take them a couple of decades to finish the FFVII remake. What would this actually be?

[briareos_kerensky]

Grim Grimoire is getting re-released on PS4 and Switch this July.

https://gamestalk.net/post-175456/

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.eurogamer.net/oddworld-soulstorm-playstation-plus-deal-devastating-for-developer

This is gaining more traction now but it still feels like a misleading story, over equating PS Plus downloads to potential sales

[Colin]

EDIT: Wrong thread!

[Cassius_Smoke]

I don't think it's much of a story.
Sony paid that X amount, but the downloads would have netted them more if they didn't take the deal. Problem is, how many of those 4m people would have actually bought the game if it wasn't free?
Im sure Xbox has the same issues... Paying so much but the downloads would have netted them more.

[wakka]

Lanning has always had a massively over-inflated ego, and I think he thinks Oddworld is a much bigger deal than it is. Soulstorm would never have been a big seller.

Plus, what did he think was going to happen? What was his metric for success on PS+? Would he have preferred the game to be so unappealing that only a handful of players downloaded it even when it was available for free?

[fishbowlhead]

Non story really, whatever deal he took was probably favourable vs his dev costs and the situation at the time, downloads for free (we’ll included in your sub) don’t equal sales.

Same as something thats downloaded tons on gamepass, just because it was downloaded doesn’t mean you would of sold those X amount of copies.