SNK disappoints again........
Ben Herman, the president of SNK Playmore USA, has stated the following:
"Sony has rejected a number of their 2D projects for PS2, because they do not correspond to the graphic standard."
And more importantly:
"The PS2 shooter Twinkle Star Sprites will not be published in US because there's no market for the genre."
Great line of thinking there, Sony, we know there aren't any 2-D based games that can push a system's limits graphically (*cough IKARUGA cough*). It's this kind of closed minded thinking that really chokes the progress of gaming reaching its heights. Imagine if Ikaruga was scrapped only because it was "2-D based"? What a loss that would have been......
And as for no TSS port, fine I can understand shmups aren't widely popular here in the US, but this industry is about quality product, and Sprites is one excellent player vs. player game. I guess the almighty dollar (or lack of it) squashes any chance of a fun game getting into the hands of the select group of gamers who would really appreciate it. Oh, by the way SNK, who is lining up to preorder this?
2 Comments:
did they release it at all? have to check this out!!
Boy, that was taken out of content there.
Ben said that there was no demographic for twinkle star.
In other word, it won't be marketable in the US.
As for 2-D games, there are going to release them in 2007, because by then the PS3 will be out.
Even better as budget title as it should be.
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