Virtua Tennis 4 hitting all home consoles, Kinect and Move!

[Sharky]

Top Spin trys to be very 'Tennis Sim' and as realistic as possible, Virtua Tennis retains its Arcadey style. The mini games the way the game looks and even that trail the ball leaves as it flys though the air... It's so much more appealing to me.

I mean usually I hate sports games with a firey passion but I played a shit ton of Virtua Tennis back on the Dreamcast and enjoyed the crap out of it multiplayer.

[ROJM]

Wonder if they'll actually get any of the players to endorse their game this time.

[Ben]

I loved Virtua Tennis on the DC too. I planned to get the last one on the Wii but unfortunately, that was apparently not a high-quality game. Maybe this one will be.

[CrazyT]

You did good not getting virtua tennis 2009 for wii. It was indeed kinda dissapoining. Sumo Digital, for what they are did deliver a decent game, but it's nowhere near the greatness of what the original team deliver.

[Ben]

Which is kinda too bad because I think there's an entire audience who loved Wii Sports Tennis and wants to play a real Tennis game on Wii that's actually good.

If there's one flaw I have with Sumo Digital it's that I wish they took their Wii versions more seriously. Because whether they like it or not, it's the version that sells the best.

[Sharky]

Well VT4 will be developed by the original team, in Japan. Even the Wii version.

[Ben]

Well, I hope it's good. Sega actually really has a great opportunity here, especially on Move and Kinect.

[ROJM]

Development may have began on the PS3 but someone at Sega had to have stepped in and said that the game had to go multiplat. I mean, honestly, exclusive sports games? To the console with the smallest userbase?

Eh. Wouldn't have been smart.

Note the timing of this announcement, though....hot on the heels of Take-Two revealing their massive Top Spin 4 lineup and multiplat status. So it's very possible that the 360 and Wii versions will be rushed. I hope not...because it'll probably sell the best on these systems and it won't help the Sega brand name if they are of poor quality.

Not really, the last two VIRTUA TENNIS games were multi platform as well. The difference this time is that AM3 is handling all versions. Apparently.

[Ben]

Development may have began on the PS3 but someone at Sega had to have stepped in and said that the game had to go multiplat. I mean, honestly, exclusive sports games? To the console with the smallest userbase?

Eh. Wouldn't have been smart.

Note the timing of this announcement, though....hot on the heels of Take-Two revealing their massive Top Spin 4 lineup and multiplat status. So it's very possible that the 360 and Wii versions will be rushed. I hope not...because it'll probably sell the best on these systems and it won't help the Sega brand name if they are of poor quality.

Not really, the last two VIRTUA TENNIS games were multi platform as well. The difference this time is that AM3 is handling all versions. Apparently.

Yeah but I mean the plan apparently was that this installment would be PS3 exclusive.

[ROJM]

Yeah i know what ya meant, but its like TA said about legal issues which delayed the 360 announcement, This game was always planned to be a multi platformer i'm afraid.

[Ben]

Yeah i know what ya meant, but its like TA said about legal issues which delayed the 360 announcement, This game was always planned to be a multi platformer i'm afraid.

Eh...don't know about that. Past comments from the producer seemed to indicate otherwise.

[ROJM]

That doesn't mean anything. I recall the producer of Virtua Fighter 5 saying that online could n't be included in the game because of lag issues and almost indicated it may never get done. six months down the line the 360 version comes out with online play. now if ya know about game development and release schedules, there was no way the producer couldn't have known or figured that online/lag times wouldn't have been a problem.
The same applies here, just because he said or whoever said it doesn't mean its always true. Because the game's other platforms are not only revealed but all coming out in spring. Now when did the news of VT4 became known to the public? Now really in thattimeframe do you really believe Sega just changed their mind and decided to do a kinectic version when you consider how long it takes to code for it? They had to have known from the beginning whether they were to use it or not.

[MadeManG74]

I gotta agree with Joe here, this was always planned for multi-plat, just not announced right away.

[Barry the Nomad]

SEGA was very dodgy when it came to answering fans questions about 360 and Wii versions. I recall the SEGA forum for the game was silent when it came to questions being answered, as were the comments sections at the blogs. Even the initial press release never mentions exclusivity: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/111/1113533p1.html

So yeah, I'm leaning toward it always being multi-plat. Sony just wanted to take away from Kinect press by showing off their motion controls and 3D tech. Probably slipped SEGA a $20.

[Ben]

lol well if it's true (though it still sounds a bit ridiculous to me...what does Sony gain by lying about a game being "exclusive" months before its release?) then yeah hopefully Sega got paid.