Soul Calibur VI: General discussion

I don't know if this is true or not, but it's logical for a business, that is a place that tries to maximize profits, to focus on one product that they might feel fulfills a particular niche. They might see Tekken and SC as competing interests, and might try to relegate SC to something like their many anime-based games - that is, a game for casuals.
 
I am confident, that if SCV didn't kill the franchise, SCVI won't kill it either, hopefully the community is also more aware of the precarious standing it seems to have at Namco and support it accordingly, i preordered the Collector's edition, just to make sure, though.
 
Nyte said:
But that was when fighting game sales were at a high, and every fighter sold better than they do now.
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Fighting games - as individual titles - are being out-innovated by MOBAs and other team-based arena games, which provide the same thrill of competition and opportunity for performance & knowledge skill-based growth, while also providing a cooperative (team-based) context in a new environment.

Fighting games in the past few years have been somewhat niche, either going more hardcore or more casual with lower budgets, as I mentioned earlier in the thread. A single title would need to be groundbreaking to be more competitive in popularity with titles of these newer hybrid genres (many of which use microtransactions). Nevertheless, at least with esports, fighting games are more able to showcase a wider diversity of titles, so while each individual title might not pull the same sales as these hybrid-genre, microtransaction titles, at least the fighting genre as a whole is still doing well.


FleshMasher said:
I am confident, that if SCV didn't kill the franchise, SCVI won't kill it either, hopefully the community is also more aware of the precarious standing it seems to have at Namco and support it accordingly, i preordered the Collector's edition, just to make sure, though.
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Yeah, I think they are just saying stuff like this in part to scare people into supporting the game. It is possible that it would be the last title if it did utterly horrible (like let's say under 500k copies), but that's pretty much any long-standing series that needs a somewhat high budget. If SC6 were to do as poorly as SC5 (SC6 will probably do much better), I am sure they would still have a SC7, it just would likely become more of a throwaway series, unless they saw some market opportunity to risk putting more investment in again.
 
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KilikH said:
CASSANDRA / AMY / YUN SEONG (if there’s no a korean in the base roster) or SETSUKA
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"No Korean"?

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Purely anecdotal but from various non-calibur livestreams, Twitter, some Reddits and other internet "hang-out" places, lots of people seem to be interested in Calibur that previously weren't. I'm hoping this small lot is indicative of a greater interest but it can only be a good thing.

The game is worth investing in even just to show developers that there's still an interest in singleplayer content within a fighting game and hopefully that's something that Namco take away from this if the game sells well, which I fully expect it will.
 
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