Arcades are the MAIN platform for fighting games in japan. They are much bigger on arcades and all important gaming activity in japan is done on arcade. Daisuke Ishiwatari explained this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usBU_mJmhuw#t=331 The only people that buy the console releases are the pro players that want to use the practice mode.

This, really.

I've lost track of how many arcade fighting games have come here to the Philippines, JP-text untouched and all.

I never knew that. Only when the news came out.
Its pretty cool how its still popular.

It makes sence, Arcades are still a big deal in Japan. I lost count of how many SEGA arcades I saw in Tokyo and they were nearly all pretty occupied.

Didnt know that. It's nice learning about cultural differences in countries.

Though that means a console release will definitely need to be worldwide to sell well.