Hopefully it doesn't get released 2 years after the arcade version like KOF XI did. Still, it might take a while, since SNK is taking their time with this one. I'm perfectly fine with that as long as it is released before Mortal Kombat 9 and MvC3 (which would GREATLY harm sales), has a color edit mode (the palettes aren't limited to 15 colors like the NeoGeo titles so it would create many possibilities for custom colors), and better online that *cough* KOF XII *cough*
I also heard somewhere that no one wants to publish KOF XIII for consoles because of how bad XII was, but the arcade version is doing pretty well, so I wouldn't worry about that Heck, they even released a patch for it earlier this month.