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Street Fighter IV confirmed for arcades

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mrserv0n:

Looks like the exact same game as all of them, even the graphics aren't nothing special

superart:

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Singapura:

I don't understand why these machines have to be so expensive. In the 80's the machines where designed and built specifically for one game so I can understand the fixed costs must be enormous. Nowadays machines like Tekken 6 cost tens of thousands for basically a couple of plasmascreens and a few PS3's. If the Streetfighter 4 arcade would have special hardware the PS3 and Xbox versions would probably differ too much. Looking at the trend (consoles games rival if not surpass arcade games) I don't think that will be the case. So why the high pricetag?  ???

MaximRecoil:


--- Quote from: Singapura on March 13, 2008, 02:00:56 am ---I don't understand why these machines have to be so expensive. In the 80's the machines where designed and built specifically for one game so I can understand the fixed costs must be enormous. Nowadays machines like Tekken 6 cost tens of thousands for basically a couple of plasmascreens and a few PS3's. If the Streetfighter 4 arcade would have special hardware the PS3 and Xbox versions would probably differ too much. Looking at the trend (consoles games rival if not surpass arcade games) I don't think that will be the case. So why the high pricetag?  ???

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It looks like of the $23,662.04 USD,  $3,662.04 is for the hardware and $20,000 is for the IP.

That's a hell of a lot of quarters before you make your money back.

brandon:

honestly I think thats the down fall of the arcade... used to be the arcade version of the game far surpassed the home version.. The home systems were not capable of reproducing the arcade experience.. so people played in the arcades.. but now because the consoles are so powerful people have no reason to play in the arcades.. so they just wait for the home version that they know will be on par... think about it... even when SF2 or MK was on the console you still played in the arcade to the get the authentic experience.. but now you expect the console port within a few months and you know its going to be 99% the same as the arcade..  so why bother?  thus is the death of the arcade...

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