SEGA has today announced Virtua Fighter 5, the latest in it's celebrated fighting franchise, will see a grand update and a standalone release for the XBLA.
From Siliconera: "The latest Famitsu issue has special coverage to mark the release of Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown. It included an interview with chief producer Seiji Aoki from Sega. The interview revealed that Sega still has yet to make any plans for Virtua Fighter 6 as of Ultimate Showdown‘s release. "
Disappointing but I would think that the re-release of VF5 will play a large roll in if VF6 happens or not. Fighting games have went from "evergreen" coin eaters to e-sports competitions and I could see that making new titles difficult for the bean counters to justify. Still the current trends in fighters have me less then thrilled with the future of the genre. Way too much DLC, over priced season passes, $100 "day 1 editions" its all just become a bit ridiculous imo.
People want it, fighting games been releasing left and right these days. VF was like the only one that was a no show.
Well if they don't plan on using rollback netcode they might as well not bother. So far my VF matches have gone from "playable" to lag fests. I was really rooting for this game but they dropped the ball with the netcode.
Owners of Yakuza 6 can use this unlocker in order to play Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown without booting Yakuza 6.
Even though the Virtua Fighter brand has been a dependable one for Sega over the past few years, it doesn’t appear to be on the company’s agenda for the future -- at least, for the time being.
Yesssss, finally. I've been waiting for Sega to announce the console version !!!
I'm loving this fighting game renaissance!
they anounced an update to a game, that came out like 5 years ago.
SEGA, where's VF 6???
this game is retarded. hopefully the load times r no where as bad. and this version only has like 2 more characters if i remember right. horrid voice acting, gameplay is OK, but i can see fans wanting more, i would have liked to see VF6 instead with some gameplay tweaks