SNK Wants to Release 2 Games Per Year Starting in 2020, Samurai Shodown was already profitable

Good shit. Good, good shit.

Good.

SNK Wants to Release 2 Games Per Year Starting in 2020, New NeoGeo Consoles Coming

Publisher SNK has mostly been out promoting the upcoming Samurai Shodown, the latest in the long running franchise, but it seems they have ambitions to come back to the mainstream in a big way beyond that. Today, they announced (via Ruliweb, translation by DualShockers) that they want to release at least two games a year, starting in 2020 with a new Metal Slugand the already announced King of Fighters XV.

That’s not all, however, as the company reported the NeoGeo Mini was a big sales success, and that new NeoGeo consoles are coming as well- the NeoGeo 2 and 3. But they apparently won’t be only retro boxes like the Mini was (similar to the NES/SNES Classics Nintendo released), but are said to be original hardware that are successors to the original NeoGeo platform.

It’s not entirely clear what that entails, but they did say the NeoGeo 2 would be a “semi-open” platform, implying the console could have some PC-like infrastructure. No dates or time frames were given for when we’ll see either piece of hardware.

For those that don’t know, the NeoGeo was a platform released opposite the Genesis and the SNES. It was a more high-end alternative that focused on trying to deliver authentic arcade experiences at home, but due to its expense, it never managed to get into the same sales league as Sega and Nintendo did with their hardware.

In the report, they also said Samurai Shodown was already profitable due to its large preorder numbers, and the company’s last game, SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy, sold 300,000 copies across all platforms.

Not really sure what to make of the Neo-Geo 2 and 3 yet, but more games is great news.

More games is awesome, but why waste the money on new consoles that will fail miserably?

@vfighter: Can't disagree. Guess it will maybe do well in Japan, probably aren't expected huge audiences.

There games certainly deserve more sales. KOF14 was sort of better than SFV in some regards, at least at launch, it's roster was huge.

Wait, they're making another console?

@uninspiredcup: Sadly I didn't play KOF14, but my body is ready for Samurai Shodown!

Can't blame you, it dead of fuk.

Hoping for the wonderful day SNK, and the rest of them wake up and makes crossplay the norm.

Still something I just have never gotten to... maybe one day though.