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EVO blue balling aside for a moment, what are the chances of Bamco releasing a Soul Calibur anniversary collection? it seems that collections are becoming more prevalent nowadays. not long ago we had the SF anniversary collection and capcom beat em up bundle. we also got a Castlevania anniversary collection as well as an upcoming Contra anniversary collection. do you think a collection would be a wise business decision at this time for SC? i guess maybe Bamco doesn't have much faith in SC right now seeing as how the series has been on its last legs for a while now. probably isn't worth the resources at the moment. though if there was one in the works what games would be on it and which would have netplay?
Such a collection is a longstanding dream of mine--even without online capability, it would simply be great to have all (or even just the majority) of titles in the series playable on one, modern console. But I would not advise getting your hopes up: the situation for Soulcalibur is not really even remotely comparable with that of Street Fighter: the former is a Triple-A title that is virtually synonymous with the fighting game genre, with each of its last few entries being absolute blockbusters. Furthermore, all of those games are 2D, which are easier to emulate on newer hardware without complications and thus require relatively less time to port in an acceptable state. On top of that, Capcom has long been in the habit of releasing its games in collections, while Namco has generally never explored the nostalgia market to that depth.
There's a number of other marketing, market-share, technical and pragmatic differentials between the two scenarios, but suffice to say in summary, I think your gut instinct analysis is correct here: this just doesn't make for a good cost-benefit analysis on Namco's part, and on top of that, as we have all come to accept over the years, SC is not at the top of Namco's list of priorities, especially this year when its resources are split a hundred different directions. This is another case of something I hope I could be proven wrong about, but honestly, I don't see it happening.
It seems far more likely to put Mitsurugi in SamSho than it does to put one of their characters in SoulCalibur VI.
And neither scenario is remotely likely, imo, for numerous reasons. Vergeben really does have a knack for proving time and again how undiscerning/credulous the fanbase of these games are, and how readily people will pick up on the most obvious horseshit and start firing it back and forth, echo-chamber style. One little post and now every forum and every other social media thread with an interest in either franchise is treating this like it could really be a thing. Nevermind that Namco is struggling to get one last character out in a timely fashion to finish the first season, despite the fact that she's been in planning/development for ages, and we have no reason to anticipate any announcement regarding future content for the game at this event, let alone another guest character, who could have only have gone into development relatively recently if it were a thing... No, there is no SamShow guest coming to SCVI, and I'd be very, very surprised indeed to even learn of a guest appearance running in the opposite direction.