Awesome interview up on www.kikizo.com tommorow

[Onyxmeth]

Fishie said:

Onyxmeth said:

I feel cheated in my guesses! Those hints were there to put everybody off the trail Fishie! I love virtua Fighter, but even I know it's not a billion dollar franchise like Halo and Pokemon. Virtua Fighter sells like crap nowadays.

 

 

Thats the thing, it IS a Billion Dollar franchise.

Its the game that launched VF.net and from that all.net.

An arcade network where both consumers as well as the arcades themselves pay Sega a monthly fee for the rankings, customisations, replays, live matches etcetera.

It brings in crazy money for Sega like WoW brings in crazy money for Blizzard every month.

Ok I did not know that. I stand corrected. Do you have numbers on that business though because that might be something interesting to track one day.

@konnichiwa-Probably Pokemon considering the newest Diamond/Pearl expansion did like a million there in one week alone. If it weren't for Fishie mentioning the stategy Sega uses with arcades, I would also note that the money people put into arcade machines typically goes in the cabinet owner's pockets, not the publisher of the game.