cheddarsword
[04] Fighter
I think you guys are thinking too far, it's not about that at all, i think Namco are totally aware that there are some SC fans that will never be interested on Tekken, just like some Tekken fans that will never be on SC. (I love and play both, so idc about that.)
& BTW, Tekken is still the most selling fighting franchise, so probably more popular than SC worldwide.
It's just a business law and that's all, Capcom announced Marvel VS Capcom Infinite after SFV release, just like NRS announced I2 after MKX. Do you think it was possible for those companies to announce one game before one of those would be release? no of course not, there are business planning and such. There maybe probably as well other good reason they won't announced both of those games. Same can be said for other genres, Rockstar will never as well announce a new GTA game before the next RDR release, and vice versa.
That the thing you don't get acutally, sure from you perspective, from mine as well, it won't damage anything, i will buy both new SC and T7 day one, no matter when they'll announce SC6, now, or after T7 console release. But for the big audience perspective, those who buy new Fifa and COD game each year, or kind of, it can definitely damage Tekken 7 Marketing and sales (at least i think so,and that's how i see things, it just make too much sens for me).
I'm pretty sure SC6 is happening right now, probably being discussed right now behind the scenes, if not already on its early development, and i bet they'll use UE4 and Tekken Team will probably join PS to accelerate the process, i'm seeing new hint at E3 at earliest, if not maybe TGS, and then a release less a year after.
so then you're suggesting that they have shut down all talks of soul calibur, just to push tekken, but you're also saying that tekken is more popular than soul calibur...
and all of this is so that people who WOULD buy both, are sure to spend their money on the game that's more popular and, according to you, will likely sell more anyway...
i'm sorry, but your theory just makes no sense to me when i try to analyze it.
even if they announced that soul calibur would be releasing on the same day as tekken 7 is on consoles, it still makes no sense. if tekken 7 is more popular, then i doubt that there's that many people that play both games that would chose soul calibur over tekken 7, especialy if tekken is, as you put it: "probably more popular than SC worldwide."
if anything, they're doing it for Soul Calibur's sake. releasing alongside tekken 7 would be a bad move for the series. from a financial standpoint, it makes sense to wait and release a soul calibur game after tekken 7 not because it would benefit tekken 7, but because it would benefit soul calibur.
but then, even if you look at it from THAT perspective... it STILL makes no sense to go silent!
instead, it makes LESS sense!