Ben Herman of SNK Talks… Everything!

Ben Herman of SNK had an interview with Advanced Media Network, and he talked about every system on the market and in the upcoming market! The interview had a strong Nintendo focus and it’s obvious that he believes that much of his company’s revenue will be coming from Nintendo. Why? Well, it looks like he’s tired of the cold shoulder Sony gives to most 2D games. The HD-era poses the same problem the 3D-era did. With the PlayStation, Sony was reluctant to allow 2D games to be on the system. Now, with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, both Sony and Microsoft require games to be in high-definition. This means that SNK can no longer port their arcade series, Metal Slug, onto these systems. On the other hand, he praised Nintendo for allowing so much creative freedom with the Wii. What does that mean? It’s time that Wii enjoyed the spotlight with SNK.

Not only that, but some huge announcements were made.Metal Slug Anthology for the Wii and SNK vs Capcom Card Fighters DS will both use the Nintendo WiFi Connection! Online Metal Slug and SvC Card Fighters! The PSP and Wii versions of Metal Slug Anthology will be identical with changes in the bonus material. Another huge difference will be the control scheme. The Wii version will allow you to use the controller features while the PSP version obviously won’t. Whether or not the PSP version will be online was not discussed. The anthology will not feature Metal Slug 6 because it only hit arcades this past February. The Wii version has been in development for three months now.

Herman also expressed a large amount of interest in bringing old SNK games for the Nintendo Virtual Console. He would have liked to do it for the Xbox Live Arcade as well, but he is put off by the fact that some systems cannot use it because they don’t have a hard drive. Every Wii comes with a 512 MB internal flash drive built-in. If Nintendo gets SNK on board, they could add the Neo Geo system to their list of growing consoles supported.

Click “Read” for the full four-page interview.

Ben Herman of SNK had an interview with Advanced Media Network, and he talked about every system on the market and in the upcoming market! The interview had a strong Nintendo focus and it’s obvious that he believes that much of his company’s revenue will be coming from Nintendo. Why? Well, it looks like he’s tired of the cold shoulder Sony gives to most 2D games. The HD-era poses the same problem the 3D-era did. With the PlayStation, Sony was reluctant to allow 2D games to be on the system. Now, with the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, both Sony and Microsoft require games to be in high-definition. This means that SNK can no longer port their arcade series, Metal Slug, onto these systems. On the other hand, he praised Nintendo for allowing so much creative freedom with the Wii. What does that mean? It’s time that Wii enjoyed the spotlight with SNK.

Not only that, but some huge announcements were made.Metal Slug Anthology for the Wii and SNK vs Capcom Card Fighters DS will both use the Nintendo WiFi Connection! Online Metal Slug and SvC Card Fighters! The PSP and Wii versions of Metal Slug Anthology will be identical with changes in the bonus material. Another huge difference will be the control scheme. The Wii version will allow you to use the controller features while the PSP version obviously won’t. Whether or not the PSP version will be online was not discussed. The anthology will not feature Metal Slug 6 because it only hit arcades this past February. The Wii version has been in development for three months now.

Herman also expressed a large amount of interest in bringing old SNK games for the Nintendo Virtual Console. He would have liked to do it for the Xbox Live Arcade as well, but he is put off by the fact that some systems cannot use it because they don’t have a hard drive. Every Wii comes with a 512 MB internal flash drive built-in. If Nintendo gets SNK on board, they could add the Neo Geo system to their list of growing consoles supported.

Click “Read” for the full four-page interview.