I’m giving Dark Presence the benefit of the doubt as if it’s completely legit then it deserves a chance to at least be seen, even if it appears goofy. Time will tell, at least they’ve shown it in a cabinet, I am waiting to see what their next move is, which is taking a little too long.

An arcade does not survive simply from buying games from domestic publishers. Thats not smart business sense and ignores the audience of people going to arcades in the first place.

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As for Dark Presence,
I’m still sticking with joke or hoax. Definitely vaporware. Reading the official website, and reading its “features” tells me that these people have not played fighting games, and don’t know the market (story line? image flipping?). Shaggy, you’re a KOF player, so YOU SHOULD KNOW. Don’t expect any fighting game (with an decent chance) to come out without long beta testing or a location test, otherwise the fighting game community will shit all over its game engine.

Tying this all back into the officialness of fighting games, an arcade manager is not going to limit himself to domestic games only, “oh hmm, which do i choose Blazblue or Dark Presense….” And even so, does Dark Presence hold a candle to Blazblue?

For the sake of arguement, if DP comes out, and a small percentage of arcades buy this “game” and finds out its a piece of shit, wouldn’t that hurt US arcades more?

I’ve seen more of Dark Presence in action then they have let me show to the public, I’ll err on the side of it being real.

Arcades still thrive on new fighting games imported from japan this year and next. There are a lot more than just “3″ fighting games this year.