Hoshino silenced by Namco? News from Harada

As most of you may know by now, Hoshino (@hoshino_calibur), who is the director of the Soulcalibur series as of 2013, has not been actively communicating with other users on Twitter. It is currently a Soulcalibur news station and not the voice or thoughts of the director himself. We generally see Twitter accounts for both game news and for the leading director when we take a look at other fighting games.

Why is Soulcalibur so different in comparison? Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN), the director of the TEKKEN series, had this to say on Twitter yesterday in reply to a comment aimed at him.

https://twitter.com/x/status/690546754022801408

Harada in 2015 also had this to say.

https://twitter.com/x/status/668985013157818368

Why is Hoshino not allowed to communicate with the fans of the game? It seems like an odd decision from a fan perspective. The only way I am able to rationalize this, is that Namco higher-ups may want to keep the future of Soulcalibur a secret. That way any other games they are trying to market (*cough* Tekken 7 *cough*) will have less divided attention. Is this the correct way to handle the social media aspect for the Soulcalibur series? Only time can tell.

 

RIP

 

Le sigh. Long ass waiting time >>>> soon.

 

Too soon.

 

And so I'm on SFV until something happens and I can come back.

Maybe that will be never.

 

Even ArenaNet's "Soon™" is shorter than this. That's why I'm on it while waiting for some Soulcalibur news.

However, I don't think the series is doomed... Except if they told us they will release news "soon" and these news are "we're done with the series". They'd better release one hell of a fighting game (if not the best EVER) if they don't want some heavy backlash.

 

Eh, i'm still holding on for E3. If it doesn't get announced there then idk what to think anymore.
But thankfully i have games like SFV, Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, and Naruto Storm 4 to keep me busy.

 

I'm running out of games to hold me over if you know what I mean.

 

Maybe it's reverse psychology this could be the first seed what sooner or later turns into a accouncement down the line... A currently very long and dragging line

 

WE ARE FREE

https://twitter.com/x/status/758952039019798528

 

Great! : )

I'll Tweet him a welcome back!!

They may have answered @drCrux in that Tweet but no word to Joe Public on their Twitter...

Good news regardless!

 

And I will tweet him a "Where the fuck is my SCVI?"

 

Just finished reading this thread.... E3 came and went... silence on SCVI. Honestly I don't think anything will be announced until E3 '17.
It's just a gut feeling. ;-)

 

If that Facebook thing will end up somewhere, it will be in a few weeks.

 

I think they'll continue this popularity contest with most of the characters left to pass time and get the fb page more active. They'll just stall with whatever else until they're ready to announce SCVI.

 

well sources have said to look out for gamescon...but most likely we'll get something once the hype for T7 dies down a bit

 

Like I say, expect nothing big until after Tekken 7 releases. Though it is reasonable that we could get a simple announcement somewhere.

 

well sources have said to look out for gamescon...but most likely we'll get something once the hype for T7 dies down a bit

Really? What kind of sources?

 

Really? What kind of sources?

a buddy of mine mentioned he talked to the Namco devs while he was competing at the Playse tourney in Japan...and I'm just pretty much relaying the message

 

Why thank you very much for the share!
I think I found a new interest in the next Gamescom then (though I do understand we may have nothing as well).

 

A friend of a friend who told my friend that his friend worked with his friend at Namco said this.