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Title: Virtua Fighter 6 is kind of late, isn't it?
Post by: Pao on July 01, 2013, 11:43:31 am

I was talking about this on Twitter few days ago.
I'm surprised they haven't announced it yet, the last main entry in the franchise was 7 years ago.

I know the series isn't hot in the west, but I always assumed it did great in the Arcades of Japan, so I was sure it's gonna happen eventually, but I'm becoming slightly concerned now.

That said, this year is the series 20th anniversary, so hopefully something gets announced this year.

Any idea of events happening this year that are a likely place for the game's announcement? Aside from TGS of course.

Title: Re: Virtua Fighter 6 is kind of late, isn't it?
Post by: inthesky on July 01, 2013, 01:59:18 pm

Do they make a Virtua Fighter every console generation or so now?

Anyway, there was an article several months back about Sega looking for people to help promote Virtua Fighter or something. And they did have Sega Cup a while ago. It's not a forgotten series, but the difficulty it seems to have in getting attention allows Sega to take its sweet time I guess.

Title: Re: Virtua Fighter 6 is kind of late, isn't it?
Post by: Radrappy on July 01, 2013, 03:57:08 pm

Quote from: inthesky on July 01, 2013, 01:59:18 pm

Do they make a Virtua Fighter every console generation or so now?

Anyway, there was an article several months back about Sega looking for people to help promote Virtua Fighter or something. And they did have Sega Cup a while ago. It's not a forgotten series, but the difficulty it seems to have in getting attention allows Sega to take its sweet time I guess.

Seems that way.  4 was on ps2 while 5 is on ps3.  It goes to reason that we might see 6 on ps4 level arcade hardware.  The real question I think is where is there for the franchise to go?  For me, the game was perfected with 4.  I wouldn't be opposed to a complete shift in art style to make the franchise more accessible though.  It seemed to work really well for SF4. 

Title: Re: Virtua Fighter 6 is kind of late, isn't it?
Post by: Pao on July 01, 2013, 04:28:23 pm

^ Is there an Arcade board already announced with Next-Gen level of specs? I'm talking overall not just SEGA.

Title: Re: Virtua Fighter 6 is kind of late, isn't it?
Post by: Aki-at on July 02, 2013, 07:18:20 am

http://www.famitsu.com/news/201307/02035966.html

There was this Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown event held recently, have no idea what it's about other than some pop idol.

Title: Re: Virtua Fighter 6 is kind of late, isn't it?
Post by: Truesonic on July 03, 2013, 03:24:31 pm

Wait until the next arcade board. They always seem to do a VF with every big arcade board release. We'll probably have to wait for TGS this year but who knows? AM2 seems to have their hands full with other arcade series right now, Border Break seems to be raking in the money for them at the moment.

And let's not forget like the above poster said, they recently had a couple of positions open for something VF related. Lets hope that Final Showdown really isn't the final VF.

Title: Re: Virtua Fighter 6 is kind of late, isn't it?
Post by: Trippled on July 03, 2013, 04:34:03 pm

When Final Tuned was released in 2004 it was a 2 year gap when VF5 released in 2006. Final Showdown came out in 2010, and I expected something 2012, but nothing still