Blazblue: Continuum Shift announced as update, wallets everywhere brace themselves

Blazblue: Continuum Shift has been announced and the signals are getting mixed. Lots of places call it an update. Maybe it'll be a downloaded update? Others call it a sequel, and thousands recall how Street Fighter III took three sequels to get to it's current version (It's called Third Strike). So what will it be? And just how will it impact us?

First of all, as much as I want it to be a downloaded update, it just won't. Fighting games always do this, and in such a way that just updating the game through a patch just doesn't sound kosher. Continuum Shift will feature at least two new characters (one already confirmed as Tsubaki) a different HUD, and rebalanced characters and move sets. Changing the HUD just can't be done with a simple patch, so that means I'll be stuck dropping $60 for this.

Of course, the ramifications for this are harsh. As Left 4 Dead 2 has already demonstrated, there are fears of community division. I go to Dustloop a lot, and I'd hate for there to be complications in dividing the website for the old BB players and the new BB players. How many old players will adopt the new game? How many will stay? How relevant will our current strategies be in the new game? Should I keep my old copy of BB? After all, how relevant will it be after one or two updates?

A good a time as ever to get his attacks not to fucking curse on block.

Ultimately, all I can do is rant honestly at this point. It's hard to believe but arcades in Japan, by my knowledge, are still a striving business as opposed to the ghost town here in America. Continuum Shift isn't out yet for arcade, and when it is, it may spend a year in Japanese arcades before being ported over to consoles, let alone American consoles. So until then, we Westerners have to enjoy BB as it is for all we can and establish our communities. We'll eventually get our taste of CS from youtube frankly, try finding American arcades with it, then eventually forget about how much CS actually changed in favor of playing a game with a better Tager.

GENETHIC EMERALDO TAGAAAAAAH BUSTAAAAAAH!