http://shoryuken.com/2015/12/30/snk-playmore-executive-says-successful-steam-ports-helped-bring-them-back-to-game-development/
>While those of us in the fighting game community still look on the name SNK Playmore fondly thanks to their history of development in the genre, recent years have seen this venerable studio shift their focus to the manufacture of pachislot machines. Instead of bringing us legitimate Fatal Fury and Samurai Shodown installments, they instead decided to use those properties for other purposes, losing a bit of goodwill in the process.
>Back in November, however, fans were given a glimmer of hope when SNK Playmore release an official statement describing their decision to move away from the pachislot business in favor of the traditional game development that put them on the map in the first place. The uncertainty of the market was cited as the main impetus, but a recent interview with the chief of their gaming division, Yutaka Noguchi, shines a light on some of the other factors behind the move.
>Speaking with Famitsu (and subsequently translated by MMCafe’s Professor), Noguchi said the success of PC ports like King of Fighters XIII Steam Edition helped push them back towards game development, not to mention the international recognition their various brands enjoy to this day. “Even as of now, we’re better known as a game company than a pachislot company. People still talk about us (as a game company) when we say our name,” Noguchi explained.
Basically PC gamers saved fighting games forever and a PC version of King of Fighters XIV is basically confirmed now.
>>322069570
Reminder to not stick your dick in crazy
>>322071098
My brother made this mistake, and it nearly cost him his life.
>>322071098
>implying she won't stick her dick in you
>>322069570
>MMCafe
Holy fuck that place is seriously still around?
but /v/ told me PCfags don't buy games and don't play fighting games!
B-BUT /VEE/ SAID PEECEE GAYMERS ARE ALL PIRATES! COULD CONSOLE MASTER PISS BE WRONG?
I want to tickle Vice!
>>322069570
http://wccftech.com/snk-playmore-focusing-on-ps4-because-of-high-worldwide-sales-publisher-wants-to-focus-on-other-ips-in-the-future/
>– New Pachislot regulations are one of the main reasons why SNKP decided to switch back to gaming. New releases of Pachislot machines were going to need huge changes, and when they laid down their business plans they decided it may be better to focus their resources back to gaming
Reminder.
>>322069570
>mustards are responsible for the abomination that is KoFXIV
Wow, thanks Master Race!!
>>322072558
>>322072765
Nice strawman.
>>322074692
They're actually not, it's just PR spin. See >>322074550 for the real reason. It'd likely involve more red tape to make pachislot machines so it's easier to get some guys you can pay peanuts to make a PS2 game for cheap.
>>322071098
I would stick my dick in crazy for I am crazy myself.
>>322069570
>PC version saved the company
>Nobody plays it
?????
>>322076097
It has like 400k sales from streamboars and hipsters. You know all of those fags that claim KOF is the greatest? They bought this shit and quit playing without even knowing why it couldn't entertain them.
>>322076097
Mexicans
>>322069570
>PortCucks saved fighting games
>Fighting game company announces new game exclusively for PS4
>PortCucks have to hang to thread of hope there will be a port of the game
The cuck is real.
>>322076310
I've tried KoF before, it's fun but I have never heard anyone say it is the greatest.
>>322074692
Yeah it's like most of their artists and other workers left when they went Pachislot
>>322076842
because SFV is a PS4 exclusive
>>322076842
>exclusively for PS4
Are you stupid?
>>322069570
Honestly I'm glad that releasing PC versions of their games helped get SnK back on the right path.
If only more developers had a similar scenario. Some even choose to go against it like Konami has and FUCK KONAMI.
>>322069570
Girls with short hair are ugly.
>>322074550
>new regulations
If only that would fuck over konami as well.
>>322069570
Lol a few tens of thousands of ports old games ""saved"" them? Yeah right. Pachinko slots are what saved them, it's nice of them to suck up to the portbeggers for buying their decade old games though, they will succeed when they release actual new games though like a new metal slug - finally Sony got them to make a new KOF
>>322080412
so is the game coming out for wii u or xbone then?
