Consolidation Frenzy – Part One
Dust settles on big news story – part one of a two-part Stinger feature covers the ramifications of the Incredible Technologies direct sales plans, with AMOA clarification of their involvement, and the possibility that other manufacturers have secret direct sales aspirations up their sleeves, while a new arcade architecture looms on the horizon.
Universal Network Shock!
The consolidation of the Japanese amusement market comes a step closer. News was leaked from the Namco Shareholders meeting that SEGA / Sammy and Namco will be creating a central tournament network that will support all the companies' current tournament aspirations. The proposed UNIVERSE.NET will see players of both ‘Virtua Fighter 4: Final Tune' and ‘Tekken 5' compete and store data on a network shared between 810 facilities in Japan – The amusement tournament war has officially begun!
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