I took the raw data and summed 2 of the game series together, because you can see that they stopped playing VF5R in the last few months and all that income moved to VF5FS. Same for Melty Blood Actress Again and MBAA Current Code.
Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion
Gundam Vs Gundam NEXT
Virtua Fighter 5 (R+ Final Showdown)
BlazBlue Continuum Shift 1
Street Fighter 4
Melty Blood (Actress Again + Actress Again Current Code)
King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
Gundam SEED DESTINY Federation vs. ZAFT 2
Winning Eleven Arcade Championship 2010
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Hyper Street Fighter 2
Power Smash 3 (Virtua Tennis)
Arcana Heart 3
King of Fighters XIII (only 4 months old)
Virtua Striker 4 ver.2006
King of Fighters 98 Ultimate Match
Gundam Extreme Vs (only 2 months old)
Raw data, by specific titles:
Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion
Gundam Vs Gundam NEXT
BlazBlue Continuum Shift 1
Street Fighter 4
Virtua Fighter 5 R
King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match
Gundam SEED DESTINY Federation vs. ZAFT 2
Winning Eleven Arcade Championship 2010
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core
Melty Blood Actress Again
Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
Hyper Street Fighter 2
Power Smash 3 (Virtua Tennis)
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown
Arcana Heart 3
Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code
King of Fighters XIII (only 4 months old)
Virtua Striker 4 ver.2006
King of Fighters 98 Ultimate Match
Gundam Extreme Vs (only 2 months old)
Note that this data is NOT from arcadia magazine, who’s data is currently wacky as hell.
nice to see the vastly superior kof2002um many spots higher than the shiny new kof13. dont get me wrong, kof13 is nice and all but i wish the rest of the world would apppreciate that new doesn’t always equal better.
Virtua Fighter is doing so well in Japanese arcades that it keeps Sega’s entire arcade infrastructure afloat. Without VF5R and Final Showdown, Sega would have had to close almost all of its arcade, or risk bleeding itself dry. It will be interesting to see how well Final Showdown does on consoles this summer.
Technically it is not ST on the list but rather HSFII, Hyper Street Fighter II, or Anniversary Edition as most people know it. There is a distinct difference between HSFII (AE) and SFIIX (ST). If you added up the ST totals to this list combined with the AE totals, it would probably exceed 3S in Japan’s arcades.
In January of 2004 Capcom released a new arcade version of SFII that contained all of the SFII characters in it from WW to ST. That is the game found on this list. The game was on CSPII hardware, same as ST, but the board had better features for larger arcade operators which is why they use it now instead of ST. HSFII has a free play option, multiple coin chute configurations (this is a big one), and the ability to change round settings. HSFII oddly enough does not have an event mode. But the point is that most arcade operators switched out their ST boards with AE in early 2004. I would estimate that roughly 75% of SFII setups are AE with the rest being ST across all of Japan’s arcades.
The big arcades like Club Sega game centers almost always have entirely AE setups, or two AE setups for every one ST setup. It’s the ST centric places like Mikado, Game Versus, Game Newton, Kasugai 50, and so on, that have ST machines far outnumbering AE machines. At the known ST hotspots the game has a strong scene in Japan still. ST is the best.
PS3. 360. Development was delayed for a while so it probably will not be out on retail shelves before EVO (though it easily could have been). Announcement has been delayed forever as well. Not a surprise as it is Sega so they have to make as many mistakes as possible. Not even rumors going around about another minor revision for 5FS so Sega might be all set on that front.
Maybe Sega can actually do something right and bring some setups to EVO for the fans.
From my understanding it’s some other kind of rating (not overall income, I think it’s average income per month) of games that came out to the arcades this year, in 2010.
Quick translation:
1.newest gundam
2.WE2010
3.VF5FS
4.MBAACC
5.KOF13
6.AH3
7.KOF SKY STAGE
8.That new colorful Akatsuki Blitzkampf
9. Akai Katana (Cave shmup)
10. Dodonpachi: Daifukkatsu (Cave shmup)
Hey VF4, weren’t you the guy who said that Tekken 6’s reported income was overblown thanks to sample bias (or something like that), and that the real money maker was SFIV? I’ve never seen that reported anywhere else, so if it was you, could you elaborate? If not, please disregard. Thanks.
