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| Howard_Casto:
From what I understand arcades are starting to decline in Japan as well. Mind you they'd still got a few years left, but sales are sluggish. It's hard for an operator to justify thousands of dollars for a SF IV (and now V) machine when most kids just go home and play it on their ps3. Multiplayer Pengo and pac-man battle royale are the Japanese equivalent of the gimmicks you see in American arcades to try and drum up business. Mind you their gimmicks suck a lot less, but still.... |
| voltz:
That's where I go back on saying they're not putting any real effort into it. I think the last two great blunders were Pac-Man CE and Mortal Kombat. Those certainly would have revived the industry for an extent. |
| Howard_Casto:
The cost factor still gets in the way. A person can buy MKKE on the pc or on console for 60 bucks new, or an operator can spend $1500-$2000 on a arcade version and be forced to charge a dollar a play.... a price that everyone is going to see as too high. The arcade and home ports are going to look and play identically. Also the operator has to actually have an arcade, which is like seeing a white rhino in most towns. |
| dkersten:
The only modern arcade games that are worth anything are the ones you wouldn't want to play unless at a bar having a beer or five. I carry my Big Buck Hunter card so I don't have to type in my number when I play.. I just swipe and go. Kids have their tablets, they don't need to go to an arcade, so arcades are all about tickets and mechanical "games" these days (mostly crane games that reward them with something). The best video games are the ones you can play with a group of friends at the bar. GT and Big Buck... I used to laugh at people who played until I started playing. Often we pick where we go based on the quality of their Big Buck hunter game. |
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