Virtua Tennis 3 also was very visible inside Sega's booth, running on excellent looking 1080p tvs.
Sega's prominent tennis sim just couldn't be beat. And then vanished without a trace. Why?
Answer: Sega.
You could change the name of the game in the title that was awesome in its day, could still be around today because of its fun factor with a remake, remaster or sequel, that's in their huge back catalog, that's no longer being produced as a franchise. And the answer would still be the same: Sega.
As much as I love their games and their spunky attitude. That Sega no longer exists that I grew up with. The current company is a mere shadow of its former self with only a few moments of grandeur. Which is why owning their previous consoles like Dreamcast, is a necessary thing if you want to continue playing games like Virtua Tennis. The reason why I have two of them just in case one stops working. And of course emulation on the go. Wink. Dreams do come in red.
Both Virtua Tennis and Top Spin have gone. It’s annoying for tennis game players.
Yeah....all 5 of them. Obviously, game budgets now outweigh profit for what essentially boils down to Pong. I'm not talking about coders but licensing costs. Boxing, golf, etc...all fall in this category where real life athletes far supersede their worth in video games. Same thing occurred to Sony's Playstation All-stars. Sony spent 2 generations helping to cultivate all these 3rd party mascots into recognizable assets but when it came to license them for a game, they didn't want to pay the exorbitant fee. That game's 1 million sales didn't warrant a sequel and I very much doubt ANY tennis game could reach that sales plateau
It’s funny how you’re over the age of 3 and don’t know how to read properly 😅😅 Why the bizarre response?
I couldn’t care less about licensing in a tennis or golf game. I don't need real-life players or locations/tournaments.
Just give me some fun cool characters, some courts/courses in varied gorgeous locations, and use the Virtua Tennis or Everybody’s Golf gameplay. That’s it.
I used to play tennis IRL and in videogames. My 2-cents is that a boring game that was simulating an extremely boring sport, was thrown under the rug, now that the devs can produce more complex and interesting games.
It's like the tetris-like games and games like space-invaders, that stopped being produced ... it is because they were good and simple to make in the early days of commercial videogame development but they are just not as interesting as, let's say, an open-world coop arpg ...
This VS is pure emotional, physical and mental volleying.
OPM: Thousands of Brits will be inspired to pick up a racket this week on the back of Andy Murray’s success at Wimbledon – but in this heat, and given our hand-eye co-co-ordination, we’ll be sticking to the virtual type. Looking to fill your week with some ace-smashing antics? Then join us in revisiting PlayStation’s finest tennis efforts…
Not really, most of those games were available on multiple platforms.
Just so happens that the PS magazine wrote the article so makes sense it would be 'Playstation's greatest games' :)
i hate tennis and i hate tennis games. i dont think much people like these types of games.
What irks me is that it seems that some of these reasons this game is hyped for looking so good is that it is 1080p.
What I _really_ want to see is what this (or any PS3 game) looks like on a standard definition television, which is how most of the world will be seeing this (and all ps3 games). What everyone seems to forget is that one of the most important parts of the next gen consoles is how good things look when things are displayed on normal televisions. A bad downsampling can ruin a game (see text in Dead Rising). We're getting all this 1080p preview hype and everyone is forgetting that most of us _don't_ have 1080p televisions.
It would be like explaining what a pc game looks like when used with a graphics card that <1% of the world has...when the game may look like crap for the rest of us. I'm not saying anyone is going to show off their previews on less than steller televisions, but I find it shocking that no one has asked..."So, how is your game going to look on my crappy panasonic 27 inch at home?"
When we get to reviews I think every site needs to look at these games on both a HDTV and a regular television so us mortals can see if they still look as good as they claim...
I have the 360 tennis game and I honestly never play it because I find the loading times to get to matches/practices take too long. If BlyRay indeed has a worse loading problem than DVD (and there is no reason to doubt this) I would really like to see if this game suffers from the same issue...