Tekken 5 Arcade Debuts, Shows Off ALL.Net Networking

Thanks to 1UP for its pair of articles discussing initial details and new character listings for Namco's arcade fighting game Tekken 5, listed as "Arcades in 2004, Console in 2005." In the burgeoning Japanese arcade market: "Namco plans to initially market Tekken 5 to Japanese arcades as a package of two linked cabinets and an attached 42-inch plasma TV monitor. All told, the set will run operators 3,129,000 yen (about $28,500)." It's also noted: "Each cabinet will also be equipped with a card reader to let players take advantage of the [recently announced, Sega-Sammy partnered fiber-optic network] ALL.Net online rankings, character customization, and ghost character system."

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This "All.NET" thing.

[torpor]

So glad someone else is taking the initiative and polluting the public spheres' perception of the ".NET" thing. I intentionaly did -not- read this article at first since I saw the ".NET" bit and figured "bah ... some boring shit about some more boring shit I don't want to know anything about from those Microsoft shits" ...

Cool. Hope we all get ".NET"-deprogrammed/-programmed eventually. I would hate to have seen that word piracy actually result in yet another 'product from Microsoft' world view.