Samurai Shodown IV Will Be Hacking And Slashing At The Euro Switch eShop Next Week

Nintendo : Give me all the NEO GEO fighting games you have.
Wait... wait. I worry what you just heard was "Give me a lot of NEO GEO fighting games". What I said was "Give me ALL the NEO GEO fighting games you have".
Do you understand ?

I have II on my Wii. If this is the best entry in the series I might be tempted to pick it up.

"Samurai Shodown IV Will Be Hacking And Slashing At The Euro Switch eShop Next Week"
That kind of title is so bad... That's why I'm addicted to NintendoLife!
Please never change anything and keep being awesome

I had the second entry on Wii VC,loved it.I thought that was regarded as the best one in the series?

Soccer Brawl,Super Sidekicks 2,Neo Geo Cup 98 and Baseball Stars 2020 would be great.I had the latter on Wii VC but the football games I've only played a handful of times with my mate at the arcades 20+ years ago.I'd love to finally own them.

I hope they eventually release some newer fighting games too...

Anything like samurai spirits?

AWESOME! This is my favorite Samsho title!

I'd have preferred II but I'll probably still end up getting this.

Screenshot looks American, not European - the currency is $s,not €s, and isn't the rating American too?

@gaga64 yup that screenshot is from the American eShop, go to Europe's eShop, Alpha Mission II is up as well as SSIV, I don't actually know why NL put these articles up when checking the store is as easy

But I suppose for some its helpful, it's why I came to read the comments to see if anyone was actually surprised by this, lol

Hamster have been so smart here. No VC and no competition so get software out on a weekly basis.

Neo geo switch

Hoping for View Point, Last Blade 2, Real Bout 2, Garou, Kof 96 and 97, ...

And hoping for the Neo Geo CD music tracks too but I guess I'm asking too much

(And online multiplayer )

Will day one buy this, I love Samurai Shodown series.

PLEASE Hamster can you be the first company to port and bring us Windjammers!!!! I've wanted this game since seeing it played on GamesMaster in the 90's and nobody has ever brought it to digital stores on home consoles.

@DESS-M-8 I'm with you on this one. It's a great game.

I've never heard of Windjammers before, but your passion got me curios, so I'll have to look it up!

@DESS-M-8
"PLEASE Hamster can you be the first company to port and bring us Windjammers!!!! I've wanted this game since seeing it played on GamesMaster in the 90's and nobody has ever brought it to digital stores on home consoles."

Love Samurai Showdown, so this is a must.

I prefer II, but this one is good too. It seems the Switch is getting a better selection of Neo Geo games than PS4/Xbox One.

Day one, it shall be mine.

Only NEO GEO title I actually played as a kid, so this might be the one I get on Switch.

Unless it's a remixed version, that art doesn't go to number 4 in the series - Cham Cham, the green hairdryer girl, only appears in 2 and 6, and in the PS version of 5.

I REALLY hope Hamster will go the extra mile and port the entire NeoGeo Library over to consoles...
Having access to the entire Metal Slug lineup alone would be amazing...
Please Hamster....dont hoard those releases

Are all Neo Geo games fighting games with the exception being Metal Slug?

@Jessica286 Nope, there's also these too like Nam-1975, Magician Lord, Samurai Shodown RPG, the Sengoku series, the Last Resort, Alpha Mission II, Baseball Stars 2, Last Hope, Magical Drop series, etc., which are shooters and beat em up but yes a majority of them are fighting games. They are not in the same league or popularity as Street Fighter, Tekken, or Mortal Kombat but they are arcade level quality titles.

@neufel Nintendo doesn't have any Neo Geo games at all, so they can't do anything about that. SNK has most of the Neo Geo games, and they've licensed them to Hamster for these ACA-releases.

The only almost good as the second.

@JoakimZ It's okay, I know that Nintendo doesn't own any of those games. That's why it's asking for all of them. In my joke. That is not set in real life.
Even if Ron Swanson could make a cool Mario.

@kobashi100
Yeah that's what I was thinking. I've bought five of them so far and I probably would have only bought one or two if the VC was available at this point. Too bad Sega didn't do this too!

@neufel Sorry, I'm just so tired of people in the comment sections around internet always assume that Nintendo themselves release all the games on their systems, and I totally missed your joke.

@DESS-M-8 yeah, that's a cool game. Probably a licensing issue since it's a Data East game on the Neo Geo. I hope they can figure it out.

While many consider Samurai Shodown 2 the best one, I think part four is best for the upgraded sprites (which began in part three), and new control scheme. I always hated having one of the slashes require two buttons simultaneously in part two, among other control quirks.

SS II is the best, followed closely by SS I. The whole series is awesome though, I'll buy them all if they're made available for the Switch. Samurai Shodown is the true king of fighters.

Guess they were right to make a Arcade Stick for the Switch, even if it is for 20 year old fighting games.... XD

@Jessica286 As everyone else has said, no there are other genres, however if you are a fighting game fan it was a much beloved platform. Since I am one Neo Geo and Dreamcast are my favorite systems due to the fighting games in their libraries.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Hori wouldn't have put a HRAP in production for just old games. They could have just spat out a MINI instead. I'm not saying we are going to get every new fighting game, but something tells me Hori heard something is coming down the pipeline.

Getting pretty depressing to only see neo geo titles and indies release every week xD Though I've got my 3rd Zelda run going, and I'm playing the Japanese version of Disgaea 5, so I've got plenty of gaming time left before needing a new title anyway. Looking forward to Splatoon 2.

Great game! I hope V Special (and/or the legendary, never-released V Special: Final Edition) makes it to Hamster's service. That's the only one I don't have.

We're getting Alpha Mission II this week: http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-Switch-download-software/ACA-NEOGEO-ALPHA-MISSION-II-1211780.html

@retro_player_22 thanks for the reply. I'm just not into fighting games because I suck at them. But I already put Metal Slug and Alpha Mission on wish list for future purchase.

@Ryu_Niiyama alright thanks!

@timson72 I see what you did there.

@Ryu_Niiyama @Ryu_Niiyama As a huge fighting game fan, I love your speculations! Loving SS and KOF 98 for sure, but I can't wait to see the future of fighting games on the switch. Lol, my wife is so glad I got the switch due to me coming shopping with her more. Takes the waiting room to a whole new level.

@cbeezly82 I got through the DMV line with the Switch two weeks ago so I do understand the convenience factor. Huge FG fan as well! What are your main franchises? I'm so starved for buddies that I'll play almost anything but VF, SF and SC are my bread and butter.

@Ryu_Niiyama Awesome! I too am a current player of vf 5, sf 5, and sc. Have my heart set on Tekken 7 at this time, so I'm definitely playing a lot of Tekken 6 thanks to xbox one backwards compat.. What platform do you most play on?

@cbeezly82 I'm all over the place really. The 360 and Ps3 still get play time for VF and SC and I since I don't buy PS Plus or live annually (my internet isn't the best and most of my friends HATE fighting games so I don't see the point is spending so much money) I'm usually on pc atm. Right now ps4 is my main HDTwin that I use so I've been mostly buying new fighting games on that. My xbone is in a box somewhere around here... I'm at least hoping the swtich will get some good fighting games since I can take it to work and use the internet there. I don't like tekken or MK but they are pretty popular so I make sure that I buy it to entice friends to play. Just got BB CentralFiction so I'm getting back into that for a bit.