[quote name='distgfx']Well, BBCSE is already out in Japan as of mid-december, it's just aksys taking their sweet ass time. Capcom actually does worldwide releases or at least close to it. Unless you count the arcades, then BBCSE has been out for months already. There's usually a six month spread between arcade and console for arc, so unless he finishes it within six months of the new year it won't even release for consoles in Japan until 2013. After that, we have to wait for a few months to get a domestic release. So since you're counting the domestic release, we have at least a one year wait until it even makes it over here. So how are they one-upping Capcom exactly?
BlazBlue is a known franchise? Maybe amongst the fighting game community, but I doubt most people know about it. I'd actually say Guilty Gear is the well known franchise. They might not want to redraw all those sprites yet, though. Heck if I know, I just want a

in' new HnK game from them.
I... I'm okay with this.[/QUOTE]
Fair enough.
You know I'm a fighting game guy, but guess what? I've never played a GG, ever. And since there are no GG games for PS3 or 360, I don't have any idea who the characters are (except for Sol and Baiken and maybe there's a boy playing a girl nun?) or what the game is about other than it's "kinda like blazblue" in some of the system mechanics, I guess?
So if there are people (like me, I guess? scary...) who have bought at least 1 BlazBlue game... wouldn't you rather put out a 3rd one that they will probably buy rather than risk putting out a Guilty Gear and saying "but it's like BlazBlue with different characters!!" to try to get me to buy it? I mean, I'd be interested in it for Baiken personally, but that's a risky proposition. It's the same reason Capcom hasn't made another DarkStalkers or PowerStone or your favorite non mainstream Capcom fighter, I'd wager, and we'll likely see more Street Fighter and Marvel before we see a DS or PS game.