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SNK Playmore changes name to SNK.
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Welcome back SNK, I guess, even though they've mostly been back since Playmore bought the rights from Aruze.
2012-13 was the bleakest period. DmC seemingly killed the series by almost bombing, DMC4 got a pachinko game, RE6 was a critical and commercial disappointment, SFxT was, well, SFxT, and Ono said Capcom wouldn't risk making any new titles.
If their next financial report says "SF5 underperformed, so no more console games from us", then things are bad again.
2012-13 was the bleakest period. DmC seemingly killed the series by almost bombing, DMC4 got a pachinko game, RE6 was a critical and commercial disappointment, SFxT was, well, SFxT, and Ono said Capcom wouldn't risk making any new titles.
If their next financial report says "SF5 underperformed, so no more console games from us", then things are bad again.
Same here, its just a name change, but it makes me REALLY happy!.
Nostalgia washes over me.......
Maybe it just gives hope that its a return to from a dark mobile only nightmare.
EDIT: Also the power of a brand, even if its decades old from being relevant is still a very powerful thing.
NinjamicWZ
Banned
oops wrong thread!
The Elite
BOSS
Someone needs to throw Capcom a bone.
sir_bumble_bee
Member
Man... today has just been a complete fan-gasm for SNK fanboys everywhere. This is probably the most hype and alive the company has been since the late-90s.
Glendemonium
Member
Nothing but a ghost now.
Guess they realized the mobile/pachinko market ain't all cracked up as it was meant to be. Too bad Konami didn't get the memo.
KingJ2002
Member
sixteen-bit
Member
SvC Chaos 2 imo. Capcom is probably not in the position to make another fighting game tbh.
petran79
Banned
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
I still know you're not the real SNK, SNK.
KingJ2002
Member
with Street Fighter Vs. Tekken on indefinite hold and Marvel Vs. Capcom 4 not happening anytime soon... if KOF XIV sells well enough and gains a notable following in the tourney scene.
I can see a Capcom vs. SNK 3 happening down the line.
Omegasquash
Member
I poured my 40 out that day. I hope that this isn't the shambling corpse of a former loved one come back to haunt me.
But I'll never be able to pull the trigger on it if it were. I just...the memories. Samurai Showdown 2.
But I'll never be able to pull the trigger on it if it were. I just...the memories. Samurai Showdown 2.
KingHenrik30
Member
More ShamSho
More Last Blade
More Crossed Swords
More Last Blade
More Crossed Swords
They're so the real SNK that the staff restocked not on KoF veterans, but on Fatal Fury series veterans.
CertifiedFP
Member
Notto disu shitto agen.
This Enix-Blaming crap again.
Everything bad out of SE has come from people who were Square staff pre-Merger.
Final Fantasy 13? Square. Type-0? Square. XIV? Square. Third Birthday? Square. FMEvolved? Square.
The guys who rebuilt Square's XIV shitshow came from Enix's staff. Square is dragging Enix down. Not the other way around. Star Ocean was an IP to be proud of before Enix decided to take Square onboard.
Is this waryness of Enix because they lacked the brand recognition Square had in North America? Because Enix was pretty fucking baller compared to Square. It's just that they were about as aware of America as Atlus is of Europe.
sixteen-bit
Member
Enix's Quintet titles were fire.
What's more stupid is Playmore was SNK running out from Aruze's bullshit and reclaiming SNK back. Playmore was formed to reclaim SNK from Aruze. So to blame Playmore for anything would be like saying you wanted to only have Pachinko machines and no more SNK video games.
spazchicken
Member
LOL!
Great decision. Playmore sounds dumb and it just made the name too long. I don't know what SNK stands for except for dope memories of great games from my childhood.
Choppasmith
Member
Agreed. Imagine a game similar and as solid as Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (which was itself a spiritual successor to SvC Chaos)
Shin Nihon Kikaku
New Japan Project
I had thought the name Playmore was a reference to Psycho Soldier where instead of the usual "Continue?" prompt, Athena says "Play more?"
I wonder if we'll see an official reformation of SNK's Sound Team. I mean they've still been doing KOF, but like the company, they're basically still around in everything but name.
I dunno, SvC aside, SNK got way more quality and quantity out of that deal.
Match of the Millennium, Cardfighters Clash NGPC and DS.
CrispyBoar
Banned
Welcome back, SNK. We missed ye. 
darkhunger
Member
Playmore was the successful attempt by the founder and owner of SNK to save the company from Aruze.
V
Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
Great. More 2D side scroller action please.
such as
Great games, but unfortunately on a platform that would ultimately cost them tons of money.
If there's more on what transpired behind-the-scenes during that collaboration, I'd love to hear/read about it.
spazchicken
Member
Well, we'll get 2.5D anyways. Polygons are too cheap and easy to animate (by comparison) for bigger companies to ignore.
Hand drawn sprites belongs to the indies now, for the most part.
M3D1C1N3 MAN
Banned
gonna be a hot summer!
Oh, yeah, the games were good, don't get me wrong. But to say the least, if SNK was really banking on the idea that the NGPC games would help their portable seriously be a contender against the GBC, it just wasn't happening.
And unless I'm mistaken, wasn't the very reason that SNK had to make do with portable games in the first place was because the original contract stipulated that SNK couldn't make an arcade game in close proximity of Capcom's releases? That, combined with SNK's eventual bankruptcy/original demise, then having to rush out SVC Chaos so quickly after the Playmore restructuring, was just not a recipe for really getting much out of the deal.
Plus, as we know, the landscape has changed. Even if bygones were willing to be bygones after the original SNK-Capcom deal, I'd be surprised if the rather fresh memory of Street Fighter x Tekken wasn't enough for SNK to be like "Nah, we're good."
Oh, I never knew Kawasaki himself was also the founder of Playmore Corp. So he waited for SNK to go bankrupt and then sold its entire intellectual property to his new company. Heh.
No. The company is the biggest positive for snk
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