Scorpio specs, including how 4k will work, was leaked yesterday - it was on IGN. The year’s just starting; there’s still time for rain.
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the microsoft treatment Killer Instinct very, very bad.
I mean, if it wasn’t for Microsoft KI would have remained dead and would have never seen the light of day again. We have to give them a little credit where credit it due.
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this is true, Microsoft has brought back to life, but this experiment could last a year, in three years, did not notice that KI okay? after three years he should have dealt KI as a king.
But the IGC must accumulate the coins to create content … and hope to participate in major tournaments.
The third season 4 stage … what are we talking here? everything is shameful…
Larry, there are other fighters coming to the system so I think your list is a little misleading on “difference.” I’m not sure what you’re placing on this.
Regardless if MVC3 is now, it’s still coming to the platform, in addition to Tekken 7, Skullgirls, Injustice and BlazBlue.
To the topic, I don’t see this happening anytime soon.
I disagree and think this line of thinking I would argue this is a little extreme considering Microsoft is continuing the support of the game and is still being played at tournaments. It’s established enough to where we’re getting continued support from the publisher. I can maybe see this point in the competitive side of things, but the game is still being played so, I think we’re fine.
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I definitely think the constant clamoring from high profile people in the community that the game is dead/dying isn’t helping anything.
It’s a tiny bit off-topic, but a number of people have mentioned they are still waiting for Phil Spencer to make good on his “we’ll make it up to them” statement surrounding the SFV exclusivity deal. I can’t believe that people are this dense. Go back to the date of his statement and then write down everything that has been added to KI since he made that remark. There you go. That’s what you get. What the heck were you expecting? He’s going to make a specific announcement and say “here - take this specific game/mode/character to make up for the loss of SFV?” You guys make it hard to treat you with respect when you are so brainless.
If you want to argue that it hasn’t met your expectations then knock yourself out. But this idea that we are all still waiting for some big surprise package announcement from MS is just a basket of stupid.
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I follow PS on Twitter, and never even heard him make that promise, and I was particularly upset at Capcom’s exclusivity deal for the SF franchise at the time.
Whats funny is the only people claiming the game is dying are the pros, the other 99.9% of us are content actually playing the game. 
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This. And to be frank, I doubt Nintendo would of EVER done anything with the game at all. They’d be too busy babying their Smash game titles.
Honesrtly though that only makes me more confident that if you can get agood team togeather you can make a proper Banjo Kazooie remake.
I think everyone is jumping the gun this last couple of updates may just hold us over until we see what will be the upcoming games for the Scorpio I got a gut feeling that KI is gonna be a part of that and porting KI to PS4 would be the dumbest move ever. I don’t think that just because it’s not a EVO means the game is dying I would rather play in a tournament online from the comforts of my own home everyone can’t afford to take off work and go to tournaments
Agreed 110%.
Christ, Andy. Don’t sugar coat it lol. I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that by “people” you at least partially meant me since I’m the one that brought it up here, so this is where I come from and by all means, feel free to respectfully disagree with me via PM since I don’t want to carry this too far off topic.
When you lose the flagship franchise in a genre, someone dense, like me, might think it’s at least somewhat logical to assume that when the head of Xbox actually takes to twitter to publically say “we’ll make amends for SF,” those specific words, he might mean a bit more than “we’ll continue funding the budget title that we were already funding before and every day from this day on is a gift for KI fans and Xbox fighting fans in general.” To me, that’s not exactly fighting fire with fire.
What did I expect? Honestly, nothing. I knew from the moment he said it that Phil could easily have been doing some PR / damage control. It was more of an offhand comment, after all. But I was hoping that Phil might have some sort of follow up at a later date. Something to bookend his original statement implying Microsoft’s response. No, I didn’t think he’d say “here’s this to make up for the loss of SFV.”
Of course, I didn’t feel entitled to that bookend. Honestly, it was just a reply to some dude on Twitter. But given how many exclusives Sony was amassing in the genre, especially back then, and the fact that a lot of the tourney crowd and that wing of the FGC was migrating to PS4 because of it, I was kinda hoping that the fact he was willing to say this publically, knowing full well how many followers he has, including the gaming media (which also reported on it) might turn in to a sort of rallying cry for Xbox and was relatively disappointed when that didn’t happen. No big deal. I’m not “still waiting.” I think I pretty clearly stated that I have no illusions of this happening anymore.
I find it a bit strange that you either want to brush it under the rug and dismiss it, or you seem to want to credit Phil by retroactively going back to the moment he made that statement and putting everything that’s happened for KI in Phil’s proverbial win column since you’re assuming everything KI’s received is “what we get.” But that’s your call. I don’t know what to assume here. I don’t know if there’s a direct correlation between his statement and anything else we may have received because of it. If I were to assume anything, I’d assume that nothing came of it and that KI was getting funded no matter what. But even that’s just an assumption.
Either way, I clearly overshot and let my hopes get the better of me, so you were right in retrospect. Maybe more KI was his intention the whole time and I just misread the tea leaves.
Still, I don’t really think that hope or even expectation of a response in kind (ie getting another fighting game) was that far out of line or so unreasonable given what he said and when he said it. But maybe I’m just being dense or brainless or whatever. 
Again, if you want to have a further conversation about it, feel free to PM me.
Like I said, if either of you feel like discussing it further, feel free to PM me. I’m guessing you’re as tired of hearing about it as I am of talking about it though, so no hard feelings either way.
As much as I’d love as many people as possible having the chance to play KI, this is obviously never going to happen as long as MS owns KI and Xbox exists to compete with Playstation.
No way dude, consoles need exclusives, it keeps the market active. This is why I hope Nintendo stays Nintendo and does their thing. I don’t want to see Mario on Playstation or Xbox. Many gamers don’t understand.
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Lol. Sorry man. I would just like to make a point of publicly apologizing. I saw mentions of it a couple of times and it annoyed me. But I didn’t mean to put you, in particular, on blast. It’s just a pet peeve of mine that I feel like we, collectively, don’t take a grown up approach to these marketing/damage control/hype comments. When people say nebulous and undefined stuff like that, you can expect they will satisfy their own imagined commitment, not your imagined expectations.
We saw the same thing with stages and stage lighting (“they promised us we would be blown away, and I’m not blown away at all! What gives?!”). It’s this weird sort of Internet selective gullibility.
But yeah, I didn’t mean to bite your head off. I didn’t really look back through the thread to see who brought it up.
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So if it’s not toxic behavior from some pros and it’s not because of exclusivity, then what’s the reason why KI has such a low amount of entry slots?
Because the KI competitive community is essentially home-grown, starting from scratch as it were. The players who play NRS games mostly kept playing NRS games, and the SF/Marvel players have mostly kept playing SF and Marvel, with the exception of a few “big names” who competed in S1.
Fighting games are not big, people, and fighting game fans are generally pretty loyal to their chosen games. With the exception of multi-game savants like JWong and Rog and Chris G, very few players can stay competitive in more than a game at a time. So they pick the game they like best and stick with that, because that’s the game they enjoy and want to compete in.
So many KI fans seem super bummed that the game has never “blown up” on the tournament side. For myself, I’m just glad that we’ve had pretty steady growth from Season 1 on. Not bad for a game to create a growing (if slowly growing) competitive community out of a franchise that had been dead for nearly two decades. The game has made its own fans and competively players, in a lot of ways out of thin air. That’s something that we as a community should be proud of, not lamenting every time tournament X comes around.
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No.
The game DID change into a totally different one. Thank IG for that. Most of us just want it to change back.
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I have to disagree with you. I played during the Double Helix days and the Iron Galaxy days. The game plays the same. Just different/new characters.
It’s not really the same. There are flip outs, otgs, recaptures, and other stuff that was never in season 1.
I think the spirit and flow of the game is the same, but there are way more mechanics now.