TTT2 Arcade Release Date Info Plus Bana Pass World Wide!!!
Aris ON Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 2:17PM 
According to Highway.net, an Australian arcade distributor, TTT2 will be released in December of 2011 and more importantly, the Bana Pass as well as all customization and online ranking features will work world wide.
List of available TTT2 Packages.
"Namco Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Arcade Machines are scheduled for release in December this year, however order closing date is on 6th June. Key features include worldwide networking through internet, Namco's new "Bana-Passport" player cards and live monitor data feature.
To maximise the machine and network connection performance, "Live Monitor" has been introduced which is a library of each site, each country or each region's top 20 players data. This can be researched and replayed, together with comparing with other players. Top players have certain fight styles and players can now refer and learn the latest movements.
For many years, Japan has operated on network and live content updates to machines in the arcade centres and its the first time that Namco is introducing content management to the world market. The key points for operators are;
- you must have internet connection for this game to work (the game cannot work offline)
- you must have the game board charged via prepaid cards, ie, you buy charge cards which add "points" to your game board. Each time a player using the machine, 5 points are deducted. If your game board has zero points, the game stops working
- weekly/monthly live updates are given to the game board introducing new characters, venues, combo moves and more. These updates occur automatically without the need for the game owner to manually update their machines.
Please therefore note, if your machine is offline or not charged with credit, it will not work. Points cards (1 card = 10,000 points) for operators can be purchased and once installed into the machine will transfer credit onto the gameboard.
There is a number of configurations available including full dedicated machines with live servers to standard game kit. To review the different products, please follow this link .
Closing date for all dedicated machines orders is June 6th for delivery in December. Namco is very strict with their deadlines, if you miss the cutoff, we estimate the next following production will be either released in March or June 2012. Game kits will be (to our estimates) released in June 2012."
If your local arcade can afford the "Live Monitor", You will be able to watch matches of top players world wide straight from your arcade!
Huge thanks to MatrixMatt aka SoCalRanbats for the tip!
Reader Comments (27)
Well it sucks because "The Break" (Arcade in Dunellen, NJ) that they would be "The First Ones in the U.S. with TTT2" -- So now I told them about this and they just said, "TTT2 is NOT coming out in the U.S." -- Uhh I just sent you that article.. it means that INTERNATIONAL (U.S.) DATE IS IN DEC... and SUMMER IS JAPAN/KOREA/Australia
Whatever, I will travel to NYC or Toronoto or California to play TTT2 -_- -- Just have to say is that the reason I am frustrated is cuz all these arcade or tournament organizers tell me Tekken is not popular. They tell me Tekken sucks and ask me if I work for Namco. I tell them you suck at Tekken and I don't go their arcades or their SF or Marvel tournaments.
Also -- get this, one of the live streams, this one dude said, "MARVEL is AMERICA'S Past Time." -- America? lol.. yeah But you forget a Japanese Company made MARVEL VS STREET FIGHTER - CAPCOM. No American company can compare. No American Company can defeat Tekken - Tekken is godlike in terms of everything!! Graphics, Music, Moves, History -- Gameplay They even have names for ever single move and there are hundreds! Tekken is so godly that American's brains aren't developed to learn Tekken -- that's why they suck at Kanji lolol!!
America's lost -- at Tekken -- I am asian so I always wondered why these black dudes always think its so funny to beat me at Tekken -- when they get lucky -- so I figured it must the Tournament Stigma, the way Koreans and Japanese people beat the shit of Tekken. I know it must be this White-Man Bullshit thing to beat Asians or be powerful over asians. But Tekken is something that they all suck at.. LOL so yeah go Namco for always putting their money on the Asian Market.
Sucks for Tekken fans in America -- but let's face it, if they aren't interested in developing the Tekken skills in America.. cuz they want Asia to be in power. Get it?
I asked them but I have no confirmation if they get it. Either or...
It means Namco is betting their money that Korea & Japan still come out on top by getting Tekken earlier LOL. So that they can also shit their pants on American Gamers the way they always have been. That's why Namco is reluctant to release Frame Data Officially -- they wanted "easter eggs" to belong to certain players/countries ^^
Let's call it that... I love Japan and Korea btw but this is what I see.. Asian Power :)
Virtua fighter 5 FS arcades rent the machines, so Sega gets a ongoing source of income.
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BBCS2 31yen per play.
If anything Namco is late coming to the party, despite having the number 1 arcade game for the last 5 years (arcadia/amusement journal).
And nice to see the "official frame data" nugget of shit again.
This is exactly the reason why we just sit on our asses and wait for the console version to come out.
@ Hello
wow... that sounded juuuuuuust a bit like a racist rant.
Anybody can be good at Tekken, and a scene is the determining factor over anyone's nationality or heritage. What I read in your post was basically the following:
"I'm mad..."
"I want my Tekken..."
"I'm still mad, bro..."
"Asians are better at Tekken..."
"I am Asian, so I should be better at Tekken..."
"Some black guys beat me..."
"They must have been lucky, because I am Asian, so I am better at Tekken."
"It's okay for me to say dumb shit, 'cause I'm mad..."
"BTW... I love Asia SO MUCH that I'll travel ANYWHERE to play Tekken (As long as it's not outside of North America)."
From a business standpoint, how many arcades in the US bought T6 anyway? How many of those were at release? Repeat for BR release. And finally, how many of those arcades which bought T6 AND BR at release (on non-Jerry-rigged [SP?] machines) still exist (a number of them have closed). Namco's probably looking at shipping something like 30-40 machines total across the US even if they did try to cater to a US release, more. In contrast, my small little countryside prefecture in Japan has at least 5 arcades I know of, which is pull at least 20 units from Namco. My prefecture is far smaller than my county was when I lived back in the US. My little middle-of-nowhere prefecture will be getting nearly half the cabs Namco could even hope of shipping to the US. Trying to figure the US into Namco's sales strategy at the arcade level is thus pretty meaningless.
Regarding a console release with no arcade release, I like the parallel Gojira drew:
(Paraphrased) The US movie industry is not about to start releasing movies to DVD and Bluray early in other countries just because they don't have a robust cinematic infrastructure. If you don't have the cinemas at which to watch movies at the theater release, then you're just going to have to wait until the normal DVD and Bluray release.
... same thing goes for Tekken and arcade/home release.
Finally, regarding sucking at Kanji, it's probably because nobody puts any great importance on studying it for a long while. Also, when people study kanji outside of Japan, it's often not embedded within a rich context by which to ascribe and remember meaning, particularly at the schema level, outside of the dictionary definition. While kanji may be seen in Japan as of being of the utmost importance, interpersonal communication has traditionally been grounded in speech and oral communication. Thus, most Japanese language learners, knowing this instinctually, tend to focus their efforts on increasing communicative competency in regard to oral communication. By trying to highlight "Non-Asians are dumb because they cannot remember Kanji" I could easily counter with the average below-average level of English in Japan (here, 'intermediate' students are closer to a level 1-2 by the CEU rather than around 4 in Europe). This of course is tied to many things such as an outdated view of language and language learning and college entrance exams which test language in a manner which would assess learning in a manner similar to how people used to study Latin as an intellectual exercise, rather than a language to be used for communication. There's also the discomfort of many teachers with the spoken language at the junior high and high school levels, and their fear of students seeing them not being perfect leads them to teach in the same manner they were taught--through grammar translation (despite its usefulness being debunked by research in linguistics long ago, particularly as we've moved away from the code view of language and now see how contextually and culturally embedded things are, with meaning co-constructed between both a speaker or writer and one or many interlocutors). For me to claim Japanese people are stupid because they are far behind the curve in regard to English language learning would be as stupid as your comment; It's not the people, it's the system. Students who learn and study within a competent system will flourish, whereas those who do not or cannot will not. The same is true for Tekken, and the system includes both infrastructure and community.
While I would agree many casual gamers don't have the patience to learn Tekken in America, the same is true throughout Asia. The difference is that in Asia you have denser populations and better public transportation, which means it's WAYYYY easier for people to meet and a Tekken community to flourish. Also, there never really was any social stigma of gaming, and some of the best players I've seen over the years have been old salary men who stop in to play Tekken each day after work--beats pachinko I suppose. To simply claim that Americans (especially across all lines of race and heritage) are too stupid to play Tekken is ignorant at best, and perhaps hateful and racist at worst.
Play FAB or Ryan Hart and you'll know that being black is no limitation to playing Tekken. There are good players all over the place. It's a location's infrasctructure, to an extent, and then the scene that arises in a location which provides opportunity for or limits a community, and thus the quality of its players. Saying that most top players around the globe are Asian and thus being Asian brings inherent Tekken prowess is akin to someone saying that penetentiaries are filled with black people and thus black people must be criminals, rather than looking at the socioeconomic factors, poverty, and lack of opportunity that are the core reasons behind such numbers--people are not inherently criminal, aside from a few true sociopaths (and for which race knows no boundaries). It's back to the whole correlation =/= causation thing...
Another egg in the face for the US. It's nice to see the bullshit assumption in the comments section about "US gamers' preference to console gaming." I know for a fact, as far as Tekken, that my state and two others are more than willing to travel chronically to play at an arcade; I wouldn't doubt if that was the case for 45 other states. All competitive gamers understand that in order to get better they must go to public outings. I'll bet you my entire house that several hundreds of people would've flocked daily if Namco actually sent a fucking cabinet overseas for TTT2 testing. Instead of analyzing the effect of sending cabinets for a period of time, Namco constantly holds the West under the assumption of being unable to leave their damn front porch. Namco just blatantly refuses to have anything to do with a US arcade scene. If there are no arcades with up-to-date/new games and cabinets, why the hell would I leave my house to go? Because of a FORCED trend, I'm forced to sit and wait for the console release --because I damn sure don't have money to take a plane overseas.
So lets look at it this way; instead of "because there is no market, there will be no arcade cabinets" --I believe it ought to be "because there are no cabinets, there will be no market"
Well, This just sucks, All arcades in the middle east are dead. They never bring new arcades at all! , they CAN afford tons of new Arcades, They are just too lazy and have this Crappy and completely wrong thinking in their head : " Arcades are bullshit and for kids, Console games are the real shit!" , F that! I've been a tekken fan since the beginning And i will do my best to tell the nearest Arcade place owner to bring at;east 2 TTT2 arcades, We can do it cause we are considered a part of Asia too, All i'm hoping for is TTT2 arcades in the middle east, Sure there isn't much great players in here ( Or at least in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ) But i consider myself Kind of Good, Im not the best ofcourse but i consider myself much better than tons of others, And yes, There are Pro people playing tekken in the middle east too! i know tons of them! , People being racist saying : "Those Arabian Fags are camel riding bitches! they have no electricity or cars" Sure, we have a couple of places where that happens, But not anymore, Most of the cities are as civilized as all the other countries, We have everything, it's just tons of people got spoiled sadly. But not to get off topic , As i said before, I'll do my best and try to get Middle east arcades/ Malls to get TTT2 arcades playable for everyone!.
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