Dodonpachi Saidaioujou

[NTSC-J]

How many boards do they usually sell?

[Skykid]

How many boards do they usually sell?

I think they normally top 500 (pretty safely.)

At £1k a kit that's £500,000 gross.

Development costs, staff wages, marketing... Maybe £250k? And then they have a new potential port fodder too. Not bad money in the current arcade climate. Get on with it Cave!

(Disclaimer: those figures are total guesswork, not pretending to be accurate.)

[Illyrian]

There's a solid set of players who will always buy their PCB's, bear in mind players like SOF-WTN got the dodonpachi WR cause they had a cab with the PCB at home, and then went to arcadia to post the score (I think).

If I had the financial means and space in my flat to do so I'd get a cab and an Akai Katana PCB tomorrow.

p.s. skykid thanks for the signature quote

[EllertMichael]

As long as the game has a digitized pic of Ikeda, i'm happy.

here's digitized sigourney weaver to hold you over until then

[Cers]

I bet it's another loli shooter .

Maybe with a sperm cannon and a love pillow boss this time

[moozooh]

Well, you kinda had to massage the iDevice screen to unleash that ultimate cannon in DDP:R... The fact that you aren't far off is funny and sad at the same time.

[MJR]

This thread is beautiful. Merry christmas!

[Estebang]

They're just registering a trademark, right? They might not even have really started development on a new DDP, and this is just a placeholder for when/if they do. Happened plenty of times before with games.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

They're just registering a trademark, right? They might not even have really started development on a new DDP, and this is just a placeholder for when/if they do. Happened plenty of times before with games.

If you want to be as pessimistic as possible then yes. The opposite would be they are so close to completion that they are positive on the name and this is the final step before announcing it.

[spadgy]

They're just registering a trademark, right? They might not even have really started development on a new DDP, and this is just a placeholder for when/if they do. Happened plenty of times before with games.

I was going to offer just the same cynical perspective. In the games industry, companies often trade mark a terms for even the loosest concept 'just in case'; ideas for games, merch, TV shows, a new character. It is very common indeed. As a more youthful games journalist I used to write new stories about gaming trademark applications fairly often, but I quickly learnt many are without substance.

Still - who knows?

[Estebang]

Even if it is a new game, the "Dai ou jou" would indicate it being a port: maybe an XBLA version of DOJ BLEX with the stolen Arika code replaced?

[moozooh]

By that logic, DoDonPachi must have been a port of DonPachi.

[Estebang]

The next game wasn't titled "DoDoDonpachi," was it?

[null1024]

The next game wasn't titled "DoDoDonpachi," was it?

Now I want that to be the title of the next game. IT WOULD WORK!

[Udderdude]

So, based on information we've gathered so far :

The game will be a port of DOJ Black Label with all the bosses replaced with lolis
All of the enemies will be lolis
The bullets will be really small glowing lolis
The entire stage will be spent flying over a really tall loli
Hibachi is now a loli in a bee suit (she's also tsundere)
Shooting at bullets causes the bullets to turn into enemies
Shooting at enemies causes the enemies to turn into bullets
Bombs cause the enemies and bullets to have an identity crisis and turn into bosses

That about sums it up.

[Jeneki]

Don't forget the naked magical change sequence while using a hyper.

[Udderdude]

I heard it's going to be 30 seconds long and unskippable.

[spadgy]

I heard the whole game is going to be 30 seconds long and unskippable.

[Herr Schatten]

The next game wasn't titled "DoDoDonpachi," was it?

Now I want that to be the title of the next game. IT WOULD WORK!

+ = WIN

Bring it on!

[Illyrian]

The next game wasn't titled "DoDoDonpachi," was it?

Now I want that to be the title of the next game. IT WOULD WORK!

+ = WIN

Bring it on!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[IseeThings]

Well they've already done flying pigs, so flying dodos probably aren't that farfetched...

[ZenErik]

Well they've already done flying pigs, so flying dodos probably aren't that farfetched...

Farfetch'd? They're adding Pokemon too?! No way!!!

[moh]

Well they've already done flying pigs, so flying dodos probably aren't that farfetched...

Farfetch'd? They're adding Pokemon too?! No way!!!

this is getting way out of control.. =P

my money's on this being a dodonpachi-themed visual novel. maybe that's what instant brain was preparing us for!

[Casper<3]

So, based on information we've gathered so far :

The game will be a port of DOJ Black Label with all the bosses replaced with lolis
All of the enemies will be lolis
The bullets will be really small glowing lolis
The entire stage will be spent flying over a really tall loli
Hibachi is now a loli in a bee suit (she's also tsundere)
Shooting at bullets causes the bullets to turn into enemies
Shooting at enemies causes the enemies to turn into bullets
Bombs cause the enemies and bullets to have an identity crisis and turn into bosses

That about sums it up.

People always say CAVE games have lolis but all I got was fat pig girls, gender confused fairys, and some post-apocalyptic ship pilots.

...now trigger heart exelica, those are some loli's

[AntiFritz]

So, based on information we've gathered so far :

The game will be a port of DOJ Black Label with all the bosses replaced with lolis
All of the enemies will be lolis
The bullets will be really small glowing lolis
The entire stage will be spent flying over a really tall loli
Hibachi is now a loli in a bee suit (she's also tsundere)
Shooting at bullets causes the bullets to turn into enemies
Shooting at enemies causes the enemies to turn into bullets
Bombs cause the enemies and bullets to have an identity crisis and turn into bosses

That about sums it up.

People always say CAVE games have lolis but all I got was fat pig girls, gender confused fairys, and some post-apocalyptic ship pilots.

...now trigger heart exelica, those are some loli's

They dont have many lolis at all, most people think anime girl = loli though.

[rancid3000]

I bet it's another Visual Novel...

It's about the Deathsmiles and DaiOuJou loli's courting each other's bi-sexual tendencies before they all lose their virginities to each other in a witch/robot orgy. If you do a pad motion just as Shotia shoves a pumpkin up Windia's ass a digitised pic of Ikeda appears in the window in the background with blood spurting out of his nose.

The game will scroll diagonally. And no, it won't be in 2.5D like Viewpoint. Just straight up 2D scrolling towards the top right corner.

[MR_Soren]

Maybe this is just a Vita port of DDP:DOJ?

[moh]

I bet it's another Visual Novel...

It's about the Deathsmiles and DaiOuJou loli's courting each other's bi-sexual tendencies before they all lose their virginities to each other in a witch/robot orgy. If you do a pad motion just as Shotia shoves a pumpkin up Windia's ass a digitised pic of Ikeda appears in the window in the background with blood spurting out of his nose.

The game will scroll diagonally. And no, it won't be in 2.5D like Viewpoint. Just straight up 2D scrolling towards the top right corner.

FUCK YEAH!!

[Aliquantic]

It looks like this mysterious game will be Dodonpachi Maximum for Windows Phone 7 (that game Cave mentioned a few months ago), complete with achievement list: http://blog.livedoor.jp/ponde_ponde/arc ... 91392.html

[MR_Soren]

Looks like Xbox 360 to me. Notice the wallpaper around the game screen?