Arvandor wrote:Maybe tripleP wasn't too off in his prediction of shmups dying in '07 o_O At least as far as consoles are concerned. Hopefully Arika isn't totally done with Cave, and is only giving up on Ketsui in particular.
No kidding. Of course I am annoyed with Square (getting really tired of big companies almost pointlessly buying out folks like Taito and Hudson only to seemingly stifle or simply let them continue to stagnate). But besides old ports/collections, what have they put out in the last 6 years shmup-wise since Raycrisis? Taito hasn't done much to keep itself thriving.Arvandor wrote:Not much to be done if they weren't making money, and while it is a pity to lose Taito... Worse things could have happened shmup-wise.
Taito shut down all their arcade development studios in the late 90's to focus on other stuff (Zuntata were most likely very pissed off)Dylan1CC wrote: But besides old ports/collections, what have they put out in the last 6 years shmup-wise since Raycrisis? Taito hasn't done much to keep itself thriving.
scrilla4rella wrote:to those cock-smokes at Square-Enix: get of your asses and make an original game for once. We don't need another port of FF1&2. Unless it's a sequel to Einhander or Vagrant Story, eat a dick!
)Oh, as an aside. MileStone seem to have announced new works in the planning stages on their column update for the 29th, and I'm curious to see... you know... which platform it's on.jp wrote:Psssh! There will be new shmups coming out on the DC all the way into 2010.
For the last 6 months I suspected the above as Taito basically stopped cold turkey with their shooter releases. As much as everyone bitched about filtering and quality control, I'm sure most on this board appreciated the steady stream of Taito shooter releases we were getting for the last couple years.twe wrote: It says basically that Square-enix is unhappy with their subsidiary company Taito after Taito posted a huge loss in the first half of the fiscal year. So, they will end Taito's expansion in the amusement business, shut down unprofitable software releases/development, and focus on a few bigger (=more profitable) projects. Shmup ports will likely be a thing of the past. Thanks Squeenix.
Publishing is nothing. Perhaps a publisher could not even make a loss on a publishing due to contracts. A developer let's his game be published by a publisher. the publisher gets paid for an x amount of copies to be published. so they would still publish those games probably I think......freddiebamboo wrote:Have to agree here, it's not like they were just about to publish galuda2 or pink sweets.D wrote:Like Taito was planning a shmup ever again.....
Maybe this will force cave to go back to akira and get them to port the galuda sequel.
This is correct but this information was not revealed until many months after Mushi was released. By then the Taito bashing had snowballed. Besides, It's easier to bash Taito than it is the shooter gods Cave themselves.freddiebamboo wrote:I thought people were saying that cave themselves did the mushi and ibara ports and it was just taito that published them. I can't remember which thread it was in (maybe the one about the mushi graphics), but I could be remebering this wrong however.
Square-Enix can take Final Fantasy and shove it. For their penance, they need to put out Einhander II.
jp wrote:scrilla4rella wrote:to those cock-smokes at Square-Enix: get of your asses and make an original game for once. We don't need another port of FF1&2. Unless it's a sequel to Einhander or Vagrant Story, eat a dick!
Awww... you can never get enough ports of FF1 and 2.
I mean, with each port of FF1 it gets even shittier!! We gotta see how low they can go!!
And FF2 is the black sheep of the series. So they gotta show that one off ya know?
Yeah, and we gotta see how many more boy-band characters they can come up with! Craziness!
but everything comes back to commercial viability... so now we can add taito to the list of devs who don't make/publish shooters.
