Well it did only sell 5k in Japan and 15k in the US on the 360. They’re probably depressed as hell on the 360 sales.
wow that blows. how much did it sell on ps3 in japan and US if you happen to know that?
that’s really bad, i had no idea.
i guess it is partly down to their own fault.
poor presentation, fudged online, no extras or single player.
it got some early bad reviews too.
The Japanese Sales were like 15k for KOF XII and the US sales were like 40k. It almost outsold it 3-1 on the PS3 but the sales still failed to reach 100k. Sad thing is the game has the best fighting engine out of Blazblue and Street Fighter 4, yet because of the shitty online the game bombed. Word of mouth killed it.
So pretty much if they ever get a good online system… it’ll have a chance… SNK Ignition… please HURRY up. Or at least update us, anyone think they are repatching the patch?
I’ve been thinking that for a while now, or hoping, actually. It’s possible that they want to give the 360 version really good netcode in the hopes of generating a few more sales before they push out the DLC. I’m not holding my breath, however. I just want to be able to play my friends in the same state without the game destroying lag. I still can’t believe that after all that work on the game over the last couple of years, they put the game out with online that bad. I just hope they can fix the online for those of us who still want to play it and support SNK.
That’s dumb as shit as the PS3 one outsold it nearly 3 to 1. If they aren’t going to fix it on the console that it sold the most on, they sure as hell aren’t going to fix it on a console that sold less then Jet Set Radio. Though I’d love to see them fix both of them, they most likely are not going to do it, unless Ignition pulls some miracle out of their ass.
haha jetset radio, sold bad but a good game imo XD
I agree though, word of mouth really did kill this game. didn’t help the japanese sales that hardly any japanese arcades have kof12
True, but it’s also possible they want to increase the lackluster sales figures they’ve garnered on that console. I didn’t say it was a brilliant strategy, I said I hoped that’s what was happening. If that didn’t make sense to you then I guess you’re, what was it… oh yeah, “dumb as shit”.
First off its not even 2-to-1, so you can stop running your mouth about that.
This is the first time SNK has done netcode for a game on a Sony console outside Japan (whereas they put out many online-enabled games worldwide on XBox1). They’re probably more accustomed to working with Live and MS for implementing this stuff than they are with Sony.
Maybe Sony jumped the gun releasing the patch for PS3 and it ended up shitty? Maybe MS is sitting on the patch for no reason? Maybe the delay inbetween SNK working on/submitting the patch for PS3 and working on/submitting the patch for 360 benefited the 360 release with a better netcode?
Who the fuck knows, and we won’t know until the patch is finally out on 360. Theres a PS3 thread in GD if you’d like to go masturbate about how awesome your system is (or a 360 thread), but for the love of christ keep this fanboy horseshit out of every Netcode/KOF XII thread thats put up. WE DONT EVEN KNOW HOW GOOD/BAD THE 360 PATCH IS YET.
Actually there was a sales topic on Ignition’s Forums
http://forums.ignitionusa.net/showthread.php?t=1582&highlight=Sales
That’s where I got the info from. The game did horribly sales wise on BOTH consoles. It’s just that on one of them it sold less then Jet Set Radio. And there’s nothing you can do to change the fact that the game underperformed.
And the only way I could see them making more sales or fixing the image of King of Fighters is to fix the netcode and then put it on PSN Network as a downloadable game and Xbox Live as a game on demand for about 30 bucks. The other way I could see them fixing it, and this is the hail mary shot is to do what Unreal did from Unreal Tournament 2k3 to Unreal Tournament 2k4. That one would be rather risky though. Add at least five new stages, classic music, ten new characters and rebrand the game. Also 30-40 dollar rebate vouchers for people who bought the old King of Fighters XII as a subsidy for buying their faulty product “Much like Epic did for people upgrading from 2k3 to 2k4”
God this game is depressing me.
This delay in the 360 patch is doing nothing to help their sales I’d imagine. The PAL release is happening next week, and if people are hearing that the 360 version is STILL shithouse they ceratainly aren’t going to be buying it.
Hell I have been waiting for this game all year and even I think I might not bother with it since there will probably be nobody online, and if there is it’ll be a fucking slideshow anyway.
I’m about ready to try and ebay mine, doubt it’ll fetch anything.
I think you’re forgetting how stupid some people can be.
At this point why even bother to sell it, youd probably get 15 dollars for it youre lucky. Do you really need that 15 dollars?
Blame MS.
The KOF XII demo is available in the japanese marketplace of the 360 lol
so late…
If that’s the case chalk a Sept. Release, Now we have to pray that it’ll drop before Tekken 6 does (Oct 27th)
http://www.toysrustradeincenter.com/products.aspx?searchstring=king+of+fighters
$22.50 for the 360. It was $30 late last week when I was thinking of trading it in…