Geralt Reveal Trailer-MAX REACTS: SOUL CALIBUR 6

         Geralt Reveal Trailer-MAX REACTS: SOUL CALIBUR 6

Feels like a relic of the past, and doesn’t really drive more sales for Namco themselves, only theoretical sales for whatever console the most popular character is on. It’s smarter to do what they did with Tekken, and what most devs do: make the rest of the guest cast DLC. It keeps the game in the news cycle long after it’s released (which is how it’s done nowadays, icky as that might feel sometimes), as every time they announce a crossover character the game gets back in focus. It gives the game a longer tail. And it doesn’t limit the sales to a percentage of the audience the way console exclusive stuff does. I liked the console exclusive character thing back in the day; it was a novel idea. But it only really made sense then, and doesn’t anymore. Them doing it again in SCIV was more of a vestigial thing rather than because it was the best thing to do (it was also pre season passes, and all the bullshit that comes with that).