shikamaru317 said:
This guy says that he talked with Itagaki (Dead or Alive creator) privately, who told him that he would love to join XGS and make Xbox Series exclusives, that Phil only needs to ask. Wish Phil would do this, a new JP fighting IP from Itagaki would go a long way toward getting Xbox back into the minds of the FGC, combined with a new Killer Instinct for the western fighting fans. Sadly, it doesn't even seem like we are going to get a new Killer Instinct, rumor is Iron Galaxy isn't interested and Phil doesn't have another studio working on it, feels like Phil has totally given up on winning over a decent sized chunk of the FGC these days. Arc ignores Xbox and he lets them, Capcom ignores Xbox with Street Fighter and he lets them. |
Arc didn't always ignore Xbox though. I think it was Chronophantasma that kind of made them go AWOL. Pity, because... ironically, the one game featuring RWBY characters is the one we didn't get, and we're talking a franchise whose company took off because of Xbox.
It's the equivalent of us somehow getting a Nintendo game and Ninty choosing to leave Sony out of the picture, which I hope happens. Ninty should be less stingy about us getting at least a collection of their older games on Xbox.
But yeah, Itagaki and Sakaguchi are pretty chill about XBO and Bamco has always had a kind of well intentioned disposition towards it, just like SEGA. Finding which studios are open to cooperation is important.
That, and closing the piano lid down hard on those who aren't (NIS, Idea Factory, NTT) for the added "ouch" points.