"Namco has revealed that Soul Calibur III will not see an arcade release but head straight to home console; surprising news, given both previous iterations in the series have performed strongly in their coin-op guise.
Speaking to Dorimaga Magazine in Japan, series producer Hiroshi Yamaguchi explained that the decision had been reached by Namco to forgo the arcade version, though he did mention there had been strong interest in it from the coin-op sector in the US and Japan.
The PlayStation 2 version of Soul Calibur III gets a somewhat muted launch in the UK this Friday." [
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