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Our friends over at DreamCancel are reporting some grim news about the King of Fighters series. Apparently, the producer of King of Fighters XII and XIII left SNK Playmore back in November. To make matters worse, the new company president "wants to shut down the video game division and focus on licensing instead, such as porting old titles and creating pachinko games and figures". Will we ever see a console port of King of Fighters XIII? The future seems uncertain. Check out the thread here on SRK to talk about it.

http://shoryuken.com/content/king-fighters-producer-leaves-snk-playmore-3215/

For those few who don't know, SNK is the company behind Garou (Fatal Fury), King of Fighters, Metal Slug, and Samurai Showdown franchises. KoF XIII has been well-received in arcades but its console future is uncertain.

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Just thought I'd post this here because I think people here care about KoF. I loved SNK characters like Terry Bogard and Yamazaki way more than any SF character, and I loved CvS which wouldn't have been possible without SNK. This is very, very sad news for fighting game fans if true. I hope Capcom buys them or the KoF IP. If not, they should atleast try for a new CvS game to pump some money into SNK.
 
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ohh shitzzz :S guess ali bros avatar has now became a legend :( good bye kof, fatal fury and ohh so damn awesome METAL SLUG :(
 
Kane

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A wise decision KOF was losing its charm........its better to bury respectfully before u throw it out!

The best parts i played were 97,98,2000/1,2002 and except for them all others were crap.

I played latest KOF on 360 and played it for once..........after that i never had gutz to touch the disc cover again!
 
Imran Ahmed

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Thats sad news indeed. They had some great IPs and memorable characters....i hope they sell the IPs to capcom.. only capcom can revive those Ips like never before. Specially the Fatal fury , AOF franchise
 
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That is sad news; I got really into fighting games this generation and was so hoping something like CVS3 would come out.
 
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Oh no! this can't be.I was anxiously waiting for KOF-13 to be released on the consoles! I hope this is a rumour ;-(
 
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gesherbrum said:
oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit now i m considering to sale my xbox360 got exclusively for fighting games
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dont have a noob panic attack, plenty of fighting games coming this year...hang on to your chaddiz.

MVC3 , SF X Tekken , Tekken X SF , Tekken tag , SSF4 AE
 
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sephi22 said:
SNK put the rumor to rest. They will not give up video game development. I urge everyone to buy KOFXIII when it comes out so that SNK can make more fighting games
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I am all up for that...also CVS3....i wish they'd make another fatal fury game.
 
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I dont like the sound of this.. I hope someone will support to continue their development or namco or sega should buy this company ;).. just saying
 
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