Hamster has announced that it will be bringing Neo Geo games to the PS5 and Xbox Series S/X with time attack modes and online play.
The Arcade Archives range already includes a great many Neo Geo titles, which are playable on Switch, PS4, Xbox One, Windows, Android and iOS.
Hamster has confirmed that people who have already purchased these versions will be eligible for a discount when the same games come to PS5 and Xbox Series S/X.
The Arcade Archives range is now ten years old and comprises more than 300 non-specific arcade games and over 100 Neo Geo games.
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This is awesome to see. The only thing that made me disappointed with the ACA line all these years was the lack of online play, but now that they announced this, Hamster just continues to win me over. If these updated versions include rollback and crossplay for all of their titles with online multiplayer, I'm gonna be so happy and pick them up whenever I actually get a PS5 lol
Rollback would be cool but the only ACA SNK games I've bought have been on Switch, I don't have much of a reason to buy on PS/Xbox since at that point I can just emulate on pc or play them off my NeoGeo Mini.
While I appreciate ACA and them keeping arcade titles on console, what I really want is for SNK to get Digital Eclipse back to do an "SNK 50" or at the very least a NeoGeo collection like their 40th. There's no reason why I should be able to pay $50 for 40 NeoGeo games in the form of the Mini but then have to pay $8 per game on console.
I was really hoping to get a Steam announcement, or at least any other digital store on computers that isn’t the Microsoft Store. I highly doubt they have an exclusive deal with Microsoft on their store, so it seems baffling to put these games on the least popular gaming store. Not to mention that also cuts of Mac and Linux sales.
This is nice I guess, but I would have loved to see the non-Neo Geo games release on Xbox too.
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