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I don't blame them for this.
#1 - US arcade numbers are dwindling like you wouldn't believe. They are only popular during the summer on boardwalks. It's sad.
#2 - Most recent arcade games suck massive balls anyway. Time Crisis 4? Fail. House of the Dead 4? Meh. Ghost Squad? Eh. Teken 6? Blah.
#3 - Quarters are the past anyway. Most arcade machines get refitted with card slides.
#4 - The expense for some of these machines are horrendous. Even the old ones still go for like 1.5k~3k. For the half decent Time Crisis 4 machine it goes for like 4k I believe. They have smaller ones but who wants to play a co-op game on a 5inch screen with a GunCon - really?
Aside from a few thriving specialty outlets in America's larger cities, we think its safe to say that the U.S. arcade industry is on its deathbed. To make matters worse, it seems that one title that could have ostensibly served as short-term life support for the dwindling arcade scene, Street Fighter IV, will not be coming to U.S. arcades, according to Chris Kramer, senior director of communications and community for Capcom. Japanese arcades have enjoyed the company of the wildly popular brawler since July, and a few law-disregarding American arcades have imported SFIV cabinets with tremendous positive response. However, as Kramer explained, SFIV (or any other game) won't be enough to resuscitate "an industry that died off seven or eight years ago." Sorry, quarter jockeys, it looks like you'll have to get your fix on one of America's illicit imports -- for as long as they're around, anyways. |
I don't blame them for this.
#1 - US arcade numbers are dwindling like you wouldn't believe. They are only popular during the summer on boardwalks. It's sad.
#2 - Most recent arcade games suck massive balls anyway. Time Crisis 4? Fail. House of the Dead 4? Meh. Ghost Squad? Eh. Teken 6? Blah.
#3 - Quarters are the past anyway. Most arcade machines get refitted with card slides.
#4 - The expense for some of these machines are horrendous. Even the old ones still go for like 1.5k~3k. For the half decent Time Crisis 4 machine it goes for like 4k I believe. They have smaller ones but who wants to play a co-op game on a 5inch screen with a GunCon - really?