Awesome interview up on www.kikizo.com tommorow

[Fishie]

Onyxmeth said:

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.

 

 

 

We are not at liberty to talk about the money vf.net and all.net generate sadly.

But really just like the monthly fees for WoW its the gift that keeps on giving, both for Sega as well as the arcades and the consumers who play the game.

 

Could we please discuss this further in the thread I created for the interview?