I could have sworn that KOF UM series is running off a Taito Type X and so is XIII. what are they running off of then. So China is going to go crazy and but up a ton of the 200 units they are going to sell worldwide? KOF XIII is an arcade game right? So the last comment is for........ I'm lost.
98UM and 2k2UM both run on TaitoTypeX, KOFXIII runs on TaitoTypeX2.
98UM was ported to PGM-2, which is much cheaper hardware, and it is also available on Taito's Nesica X Live, along with 2k2UM.
Obviously since KOFXIII had updates in the console version, there isn't gonna be much competition for the game since the arcade version is now obsolete. Look at Street Fighter IV, same thing happened when Super came out on console, game dropped off the radar in Japan, despite still being present at SBO that year, nobody cared about vanilla SF4 anymore. It wasn't until the new arcade release the game picked up steam again, which is what Climax will address.