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Will Soul Calibur 6 be announced on Comic Con tomorrow?

AAK said:
You have my sympathy Soul Calibur fans, but your time will come.
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...Eh.

So long as Namco is content to let SC be the "stepson", while "favorite son" Tekken continues to get treated well, it's hard to get hopes that far up anymore.

Please save us weapons-loving fighting game fans with a new Samurai Shodown game, Neo_G and SNK. Playing field is wide open~!
 
i went to that facebook page. There's a stupid tournament to see which characters everyone's favorite. What a joke, if you don't have anything planned, then don't do anything and say it upfront "we don't have anything this year, haha prease be eggcited".
 
I've never felt such a strange mix of hilarity and dissapointment, hahaha! :)
:(

We'll get a new Soul Caliber someday guys, someday...
 
TreIII said:
...Eh.

So long as Namco is content to let SC be the "stepson", while "favorite son" Tekken continues to get treated well, it's hard to get hopes that far up anymore.

Please save us weapons-loving fighting game fans with a new Samurai Shodown game, Neo_G and SNK. Playing field is wide open~!
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The only reason Tekken gets the budget it does is because the majority of it is funded by Namco's arcade division. Soul Calibur doesn't have that extra reservoir of cash. But it's also the reason Tekken is exclusive to Japan/Korea/Oceania for 2+ years.

Once arcades die, both franchises will be in foster care.
 
AAK said:
The only reason Tekken gets the budget it does is because the majority of it is funded by Namco's arcade division. Soul Calibur doesn't have that extra reservoir of cash. But it's also the reason Tekken is exclusive to Japan/Korea/Oceania for 2+ years.

Once arcades die, both franchises will be in foster care.
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This doesn't make much sense -- there is nothing precluding Namco from spending the Tekken arcade revenue on anything else, as the money is completely fungible. Why don't they just keep Tekken 7 arcade-exclusive like their Gundam games and use the revenue to invest in a new Idolmaster game instead? They have to see something where a console release of Tekken makes sense and Soul Calibur doesn't, even with the same model. There's nothing stopping Namco from doing the same thing with SC... but they probably don't expect it to do very well. Even at the peak of SC's popularity and the nadir of Tekken's (SC2 and T4), both series were fairly close in terms of sales.

The sad fact is that there probably isn't enough interest in the market for a new SC game to exist, and even if there was Bamco probably gets better ROI on other projects.
 
Tyaren said:
What the...?! o__O I want to cry... It turned out so much more disappointing than I braced myself for.
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In honor of the 20th anniversary of Soulcalibur we at Namco proudly present to you the fans... *drumroll*

The middle finger! Enjoy that!

But at least we still get coy Twitter BS from Markman. Thanks.
 
SCV had increible online and good fundations (like SFV), but very crappy single player modes and lack of playable characters, it didn't feel finished.
I hope they'd focus less in the graphics for the next one and just give us a proper SC.
 
Not sure why anyone thought there would be news of some kind. Description of the panel made it sound like it was so tacked onto a Tekken event that they even spelled it wrong in the description.
 
This is what happens when people assume things. I hope that the fans can be pleased when the time is ready, but it's obvious the time is not now. Just like Harada-san mentioned at the panel today. Now is not the right time for TK X SF (since SFV just came out and T7 is on the horizon), more than likely now isn't the right time for SC.
 
MarkMan said:
This is what happens when people assume things. I hope that the fans can be pleased when the time is ready, but it's obvious the time is not now. Just like Harada-san mentioned at the panel today. Now is not the right time for TK X SF (since SFV just came out and T7 is on the horizon), more than likely now isn't the right time for SC.
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I'm sure the whole SoulCalibur fanbase agrees.
 
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I know Namco'd be spread thin if they did something now, but why mention it if all you're going to do is plug a Facebook page for a single slide? It's just going to breed disappointment.

Besides, Street Fighter's shown that you can push brand awareness without doing a new game. I wasn't expecting SC6, but I did expect something minor like a comic or some sort of merchandise deal to keep the brand alive soul burning. Something that probably still would've drawn ire from those who expected too much, but would've been nice for fans who aren't getting anything else otherwise.
 
Zubz said:
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I know Namco'd be spread thin if they did something now, but why mention it if all you're going to do is plug a Facebook page for a single slide? It's just going to breed disappointment.
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Yeah, I think that's the crux of the problem here.
 
It's a shame that Soul Calibur has always been secondary to Tekken with Namco Bandai. It seems like SC was really turning a corner with V mechanically, though the part where they cut a lot of characters people like and replaced them with obnoxious kids and then booted it out the door hurt those efforts for sure.

Maybe when the continuing misadventures of the world's most dysfunctional family 7 is released, we'll see something more. I'm an Ace Combat fan, too, so I know how long series can go without releases under NB without being forgotten.
 
Not even sure why people assumed that when T7 isn't even out, let alone TvsSF lol. Makes no sense to announce it without those 2 at least being out. SC6 will probably be announced a few months from TxSF's release date or at least a year after T7 is out. That game's at the very back of Namco's fighting game properties. Well, at least compared to Tekken, Naruto and all that other more important games.
 
Korigama said:
I have a difficult time believing that TxSF will ever be anything more than vaporware.
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At comic-con they said that they have the roster locked down, but it's being delayed while they focus on Tekken 7 and Capcom on Street Fighter V. Believe that as you will.
 
Korigama said:
I have a difficult time believing that TxSF will ever be anything more than vaporware.
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Maybe they're testing the waters with Akuma in Tekken 7. If reception to his gameplay style is positive and the market's good they'll re-open that box.

I'd rather Soul Calibur VI than that, though.

Actually, I don't really care about Tekken x Street Fighter all that much now that I consider it.
 
OVDRobo said:
Actually, I don't really care about Tekken x Street Fighter all that much now that I consider it.
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Same here. I care about it marginally more than I cared about SF X Tekken, and I didn't buy SF X Tekken.

Personally, I just don't like Street Fighter. Sometimes it's very difficult being a fan of fighting game franchises that aren't Street Fighter.
 
MarkMan said:
This is what happens when people assume things. I hope that the fans can be pleased when the time is ready, but it's obvious the time is not now. Just like Harada-san mentioned at the panel today. Now is not the right time for TK X SF (since SFV just came out and T7 is on the horizon), more than likely now isn't the right time for SC.
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Whenever they make it I hope they get more dev time than SCV got. That was heartbreaking :-(
 
Oblivion said:
Wait, what? They showed the trailer and it didn't have Ivy (or Taki)? WTF?
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There was no trailer. There was nothing. They said, hey, check it out, it's the 20th anniversary of SoulCalibur, go spam the Facebook page if you want another game.

This is what we got.
 
Creaking said:
There was no trailer. There was nothing. They said, hey, check it out, it's the 20th anniversary of SoulCalibur, go spam the Facebook page if you want another game.

This is what we got.
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Oh okay.

So...there's still a chance then, right?
 
Oblivion said:
Oh okay.

So...there's still a chance then, right?
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Maybe, but only if we rush them on Twitter, and even then, only when Namco has resources (With fighting games alone, they're still working on Tekken 7 and Pokkèn, contemplating SFxT, and I'm still convinced that the NX is going to see a Remaster of Smash 4 near launch) and feels they aren't flooding the market with these other 4 games, which take priority in their eyes. So it'll be awhile.
 
MarkMan said:
This is what happens when people assume things. I hope that the fans can be pleased when the time is ready, but it's obvious the time is not now. Just like Harada-san mentioned at the panel today. Now is not the right time for TK X SF (since SFV just came out and T7 is on the horizon), more than likely now isn't the right time for SC.
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Honestly I assumed nothing and I'm still rather disgusted that Namco even bothered to mention SC at that panel if that's all they had.
 
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