The most realistic tennis game just got better!
SEGA today announced that Virtua Tennis 3 on the Xbox 360 will, for the first time in franchise history, allow players to compete with gamers around the world in Ranked and Player Modes for top scores on the Leaderboard on the Xbox Live. Virtua Tennis 3 will also support stunning 1080p graphics and a brand new VT:TV live spectator mode when the game launches.
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' :)
May I remind everyone that 1080p is only a resolution and there is hardly that much difference from 720p to 1080p.
They will still deny that the 360 can do 1080P. The folling posts will be full of BS and quite boring, Im sure.
Hahaha
This is too funny to be true. Didn't we hear the Sony fanboys cry out that their Virtua Tennis would be in 1080p (which almost no-one uses, but well), now the 360 get's it in 1080p also.
Very funny is also that a reviewer from a TV game show went to Sega's headquarters in if I remember it right, France. He watched the 360 and the PS3 version. The 360 version looked sharper, more colourfull, better physics, better framerate...
PLUS, very important, the PS3 version has NO online part. Nothing. Zero. The 360 version has an extended online part:
"Players can take part in Ranked or Friendly modes, and enter Exhibition games or Tournaments in both singles and doubles matches across the Live network. The all new VT:TV real-time spectator mode allows players to view their friends or other top-ranked players compete in tournaments, adding an all new strategy in sizing up the next opponent."
Over and over again, the 360 get's the best multiplatform versions. Why is it Sony fanboys. Why? COD3 you say it's a port (is it? These days games are made on PC's and made optimal for each seperate console), FNR3 and now Virtua Tennis. A game that is made by seperate teams, so no excuse possible anymore guys... 360 just get's the best versions, in graphics, in online capabilities. It's true, but when will they learn?
Extremely well said :-D A guy after me own heart.
your right mart, I mean its not like the PS3 has been out for only two months or anything...