Those of you mad at Namco should check the sales numbers!
There aren't complete numbers for Soul Edge or Soul Calibur on the site, however...
Soul Calibur 2, with gimmick characters, sold 3.25M between GC and PS2 alone. There aren't complete numbers for XBox.
Soul Calibur 3, without gimmick characters, sold 790K on PS2.
I'm guessing Soul Edge and Soul Calibur didn't reach 1M either, or the site would likely have shipment numbers for them. So it appears that over half the series' sales across 4 editions came from one version.
No surprise they went back to the exact same model of that game. Multi-plat; exclusive liscensed character in each version.
Maybe you'll be able to do Vader vs. Yoda in the arcade version? (I assume there's an arcade version...)
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
