My friend is a hardcore KOF player, he played the games since the start of the series and I trust his judgement on these stuff. He almost broke off playing KOF when 03 came out because it was really bad (timing, control and the changeable characters). But I managed to try KOF11 and he was pleasantly surprise. So I guess SNK is returning to their better days...

I do agree that they need to diverse their games though if they need to survive. Fatal Fury, Garou and such. Plus they should really be doing other types of games too, maybe remake games like Windjammer again.

And their touching game for the DS might be a step in the right direction...