Why is there no new soul calibur?

[AStrangeName]

With the Soul Calibur franchise, the fifth game bombing the way it did pretty much killed the series alongside with a aging fanbase that can't be satisfied and not very welcoming of newcomers. Similar issue that plagues the Dead or Alive franchise, but SC6 was the step in the right direction for them to keep pushing forward and learn what works and what didn't, but with Tekken being the big dog within Bandai Namco, no one knows if we'll see a seventh entry.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

With the Soul Calibur franchise, the fifth game bombing the way it did pretty much killed the series alongside with a aging fanbase that can't be satisfied and not very welcoming of newcomers. Similar issue that plagues the Dead or Alive franchise, but SC6 was the step in the right direction for them to keep pushing forward and learn what works and what didn't, but with Tekken being the big dog within Bandai Namco, no one knows if we'll see a seventh entry.

Soul Calibur with a Tekken budget and platform specific guest characters would be the move. That always solves the problem of not having known characters. People will go out and cop to play as jin/cloud/kratos, master chief/Hellblade girl/doom guy, link/Samus

 

[42 Monks]

Soul Calibur with a Tekken budget and platform specific guest characters would be the move

bruh the tekken budget is almost one game every decade at this point lol

 

[AStrangeName]

Soul Calibur with a Tekken budget and platform specific guest characters would be the move. That always solves the problem of not having known characters. People will go out and cop to play as jin/cloud/kratos, master chief/Hellblade girl/doom guy, link/Samus

Having the platform specific characters was the main reason why SC2 and SC4 was very successful, but they're going to run into an issue with making the game competitive friendly as we seen from other games as the guest characters can sometimes be OP and I don't see the budget getting anywhere close to Tekken's budget, but will be more than what the budget was for SC5 and SC6.