I need to get an xbox!!!

I wonder what kind of achievements it will have. AlsoI hope we don't have to input the UKK. I only have 1 controller. UMK3 can't come soon enough to Xbox Live Arcade. MK1,MK2,MK3, and MK4 I hope one day will come to Live arcade as well.

yeah so where do I get an Xbox 360 cheap...

One word "Whooohoooo". By the way, I hope Midway comes up with a similar coin up system like Street Fighter 2 for xbox live where other player will watch you play until their turn.

This also means an unavoidable, at least temporary, popularity increase for UMK3, hopefully making the turnouts better for the tournaments, will that also mean MKO will cover news of tournaments when I run them, or get info on them?

I am totally with you there. Just 1-on-1 multiplayer would be fantastic, but if they have some sort of "lobby" system where people can take turns (like in DOA Ultimate or, hell, like in MAME) then that would be off-the-charts AMAZING. I mean the game already has a built-in tournament mode, so they have every reason to do something that accomodates more than two people in the multiplayer setup.

As soon as I can confirm that they don't screw this up (I wanna stay positive but they've got plenty to prove after the M.A.T. emulations), I'm gonna have to get a 360.

I had just requested this game be on the Kollector's Edition of MKA. I still wish they'd do that for those of us who don't want to pay 800 for an X360. I could buy my own UMK3 arcade cabinet for the price of an X360 bundle.

I got my premium Xbox360 at my local bestbuy for only $399. Just in case if you don not know, there is also core Xbox360 which costs $299. I don't know where you got the idea that Xbox360 costs $800.

*watches video*
LOL... That guy is such a nerd!
I hope they make something like that for ps2
Reply to MK2KungBroken's coment about increasing tournament popularity:
I doubt that this game being widely available at home with online play with help tournament showouts. If anything it might have a negative affect. I'm not a marketing expert or anything like that but if people don't need to go to arcades to play some serious challangers when they can do it while on their asses, why not?
Just look at some games that are out there today, like tekken 5. They could easily put online play with the PS2 port of the game but they still have thousands of arcades where people go to challenge each other. If they make their next game online they would lose so many quarters that they probably wouldn't even put out arcade machines.
Now this won't affect the hardcore Mk fans such as yourself and many others on this forum but I see a decrease in the general public attendance. Hopefully I'm wrong (though it doesn't really affect me because there is no arcade with mk withing MILES)

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I saw people waiting in line in below freezing weather for Xboxes at Best Buy. I laughed at them. Plus, I don't have a tent and/or space heater, which would add another couple hundred to your 400 price tag.

Besides the price point issue, I don't care if it's 400 or 800, I won't pay more than $10 to play a 10 year old game. There is nothing else worth playing on an X360 at this point in time.

I think its safe to say at this point the UMK3 tournies are only being attended by dedicated (if not completely hardcore) fans of the game. I see where you are coming from, but at the same time I think MK2kungBroken has demonstrated that increased the number of people playing online will increase the number of people at tournaments since he's done so much to increase interest in the game already via Kaillera and the combo vids.

Damnit this is exciting. And damnit I want a 360 just for this. But they cost so much money.

Yeah, that's what I meant, all the real fans will still be at touraments but there will be less of those random casual players. But we might start seeing some more online tournaments. It's gunna suck to have to buy a 360 AND pay for internet PLUS live. I'm going to have to get a job.... J/k ahahahah.... me... get a job...... that's not even funny......

When it comes to COMPETITIVE arcade games, I think the home and arcade versions can kind of feed off each other. Since more people are playing the game at home, they may be less intimidated to take on live competition in a real tournament. In an arcade, I know I'd be much more likely to spend money on a game that I've had time to get good at (which having a home version would lend itself to). At that point, the home version just becomes training for the "real" thing... the increase of activity in one leads to an increase in activity of the other... which then drives the person to play the home version more for further "training" and the cycle repeats itself.

Another example... I wouldn't even consider entering, say, a Capcom vs SNK 2 tournament if I didn't already own the game on XBOX. I'm sure a lot of people feel the same way.

That's very true. If it weren't for home versions, well what would MK mean to me? Maybe nothing because I was still a lad when all the good ones were hot in arcades. The only chance I would have to really play MK games is at home. I was born in 1989 so I had a bigger advantage at home.

Anyway, Home versions DO make the arcade games more popular, Just like tekken, but people wouldn't go to the arcades to play each other if the home versions were ONLINE compatible and they could play more people faster.

This... Arcade thing.. or whatever IT is.. it will deffinitely increase the number of players and fans but it's either hit or miss with whether or not it will bring a bigger crowd to the arcade tournaments.

One of my many goals in life (along with flying a kite in a tornado, sueing a law firm, getting a blind man's autograph, and crap in a golden toilet) is to play at one of those big UMK3 tournys you guys have. Mostly just for the experiance, to play against some of the best, to say "yeah, I was at one of those". But if this online arcade becomes really popular and I fight the people that usualy show up at the tourney's it might just compensate for buying a train ticket to chicago or catching a plane to NJ. This is just my case. Other people still might want the actual experiance of playing next to the person in a dark arcade with the speakers thumping and hoodlums shouting:
"This is on tape......... ONE HUNDRED! ONE HUNDRED! ONE HUNDRED! ... OOHHH!!... Ninety-Nine Percent! Ninety-Nine Percent.... oh my god"

All those guys who are already at the tournaments for other games will still be there, and there's a good chance that a percentage of them will dabble with the online features for the Midway games, and might take some time to at least play UMK3 when they are there to play say, MvC2. Whatever the case may be, it'll be competition somewhere other than Unstablera.

lol You haven't lived until you've had all buttons completely cut out for a second or two, 3 or 4 times per round. Now thats competition! (And thats what I just experienced trying to pracitce a little MSH )

Another great reason to grab an X360 when its released here in OZ in 2 weeks, but still way too expensive Is Live Arcade available on 360 only or also on the original xbox?

I have to get a 360 fast!!!!!



I have regular Xbox, but now I need a 360 for sure.

Can't wait to play against people from here.It should be fun indeed.

The original Live Arcade for the Xbox could be accessed if you had a special Live Arcade disc and a Live account. The majority of the games available on there were between $10 and $15 USD.

The 360 version of the Live Arcade is accessible if you have a Silver (free) or Gold (paid) Live account. No special discs are needed, as Live Arcade games are available off the Xbox Live Marketplace. The majority of the games available are about $10 USD, with some exceptions (Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved was $5).

It seems that UMK3 is going to be available on the 360 version of the Arcade, but not the Xbox version, since there's an Xbox 360 splash/intro at the start of the promo video. Also, Midway released Gauntlet, Joust, Robotron, and Smash TV for the 360 Arcade, so I bet they'll want to add to their list of 360 Arcade games.

Has anyone heard of a release date for UMK3?

If were lucky we might hear something from Midway at E3 06.

get outi jus recently bought an xbox 360. lol haha lmfao im so lucky.
so wen is it goin 2 b realesd