Soulcalibur 5 a Definite Possibility?

[Jaxel]

With the success of some community driven fighting games, it seems that Namco has realized that they too should try to be a bit more active amongst their respective fighting game communities. Since then Katsuhiro Harada, the producer for the Tekken and Soulcalibur series has been very active in talking with his fans. A few days ago, one of our local veterans, Enkindu, discovered a short mention of Soulcalibur on Harada-san's twitter. In short, he mentioned that Namco could possibly put work into a new Soulcalibur game if the interest was high enough.

Well since then, several members of these forums have been sending tweets to Harada, asking him for the game, showing him that there is indeed an interest in a sequel. Well as of one hour ago, it seems that Harada has informally responded to my tweet in which I requested a new Soulcalibur game, and that he involve the folks here at 8WayRun. I'm not sure if Namco even knew we existed, so I felt it worth mentioning. While not making any guarantees, he did say he would talk to his staff about it... and that we should be patient. A pleasant surprise waking up from Summer Jam 4 to say the least.

Harada-san's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000832424468
Harada-san's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN
Jaxel's Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonAxelrod

UPDATE:
Well Harada-san has responded to our enthusiasm and asked us to stop anonymously trolling him. He has instead asked that we follow him on twitter and facebook before we post any comments or tweets. It looks like he wants to see a personal face to our community. He also said he's looking for a large quantity of signatures before they would realistically put thought into another Soulcalibur game. Because of this, 8WayRun member malice has set up a Facebook petition for us all to sign.

Facebook Soulcalibur V Petition: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Petition-to-Namco-for-Soul-Calibur-5/139645629404991

 

[Malice]

It was a pleasant surprise for me as well when I finally got to my computer. I always figured that if anything was going to be announced, it would be at TGS and not E3 like people wanted to assume, plus SC4 still sold more than Tekken, so from a business perspective, why would they pass up on making another game. So we just need to be patient and wait to see what happens.

 

[Malice]

And get hype and keep playing that Calibur baybee!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Hot Rod Dave]

Saw that post this morning, and I think I pooped a little.

Nice to now that SC5 is a possibility at this point. Thats progress in the right direction. Would be cool to here from that director guy some more and get him more involved in 8wayrun to see that SC5 is desperatly wanted!!

HRD

 

[JD_eLitE]

Its very uplifting news! Capcom announced they wanted to dish out more and more titles a year and Im sure Namco will do the same to give the competition in sales. It would be so retarded not to include a SC5! Sooner or later its here.