Sega in effect ended their arcade service for VF years ago when they shut down Final Showdown's arcade networking service. Since then and even more so during the pandemic, Japanese players have been holding more and more online FS matches and tournaments. Sega wanted a piece of that pie, thus this game, which was originally announced as coming to Japan first, and whose title there is "Virtua Fighter eSports."

From what I remember of the netcode of fighters of that generation was that Namco's started off really bad with Tekken 5DR but improved Greatly by the end. Soul Calibur 5 and Tekken Tag 2 were really good (SC6's netcode is actually not as good as 5 it seems). Blazeblue's was good and SF4's was reasonably playable. VF5FS netcode was similar to SF4 for me. It needs to be better than that this time round.

If they brought VF4 Dural's stage and ditched VF5 awful one then they care enough in my book.

My oh my, going to have a lot of dusting off to do...

Very happy with Aoi's redesign and CG picture. Happy with most of the characters.

I'm happy with what I've seen so far. It might not be cutting-edge but seems like testing grounds to gauge interest. To those who are disappointed maybe show support anyways? The best has yet to come

Training, probably

Any time people talk about "gauging interest" and "showing support" I think about Darkstalkers and then do a big laugh with zero humour in it

I hope we will have infos tomorrow about the customization.

Max is asking for VF experts to teach him stuff on stream when the game comes out so he can show his audience how high level VF can get.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1035515026

The biggest sin about this is how sega dare to show a trailer that is so bad quality without the 60fps option. My suggestion is wait and see when the game is out. All of you know that SEGA is too lazy even to bring a decent trailer. As a HUGE VF FAN i cant wait for Ultimate showdown. I feel like 10 years ago when FS came out. Lets play VF again guys

I'm curious how the game plays. If it'll "feel" like VF. Is there a chance it'll feel differently or do you think it'll play exactly like Final Showdown?

Yes, back when fighting game netcode was absolutely tragic, the titles you listed including VF5 were all considered pretty good because they were at least playable. These days the same performance doesn't result in the same reception. As a matter of fact, people hate on DBFZ and Granblue netcode when they are about as good as it gets with delay based netcode.

The old days where some delay in your inputs were expected and acceptable are no longer welcomed.

Damn, we all comin outta the woodwork again?

Trailer is whatever, everyone looks weird right now and the UI is ugly. PS4 only is dumb. Hope the netplay is good.

See you all in the sewers.

Ok, so, my thoughts after this first trailer:

1. Graphics
Can't quite tell if this looks better than the original VF5 (which I remember looking fantastic), but this sure looks better than the downgraded PS3 version of Final Showdown. So that's a good point. Skins and clothes looks definitely better. However, some of the new faces look... meh...

2. Stages
I'm glad we're getting new versions of the stages. Can't wait to admire them a bit more.

3. New effects
Not a fan of the Tekken-ish effects during hits. Perhaps this is Sega's desperate attempt at attracting an audience that was never appealed by VF. Hopefully it works, then.

4. CG arts
I actually love the new CG pictures. Too bad it's just for the characters' faces and not their entire body, though.

5. Content?
No words on the content yet? I'm actually hoping all customization items will be available from the get go like they were in VF5FS and that the 150 customizations limit will be pushed to, say, 200/250.

Sega's official YouTube channel has posted the video as well, it's the one that's linked from the middle of the official site's front page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrw1UybftlY --only has 5K views right now, vs the nearly 500K views the one IGN posted Tuesday on their channel has.

The way Sega presented the video on the official site ( https://virtuafighter5us.sega.com/lang/en.html ), if you don't click on anything and just look at the page, the large animated thumbnail there is looping a clip that isn't actually in the YouTube video, of the camera zooming past two lines of the characters facing off--at the end of the lines is the shot of Akira vs. Dural that's very briefly seen near the end of the YouTube video, (1:02)--only in the site's thumbnail, the view of their slow-motion clash is much more extended, and followed by a shot of Akira going into his uh shoulder barge attack or whatever it's called. I guess that stuff didn't make it into the final trailer but they found a way to include it there in that giant looping custom thumbnail.

Oh, this is it: https://virtuafighter5us.sega.com/images/videos/trailer_bg.mp4

If you mean the Characters section at the bottom of the official web site, the heads are just the thumbnails--click them and it will show the full body shot to the right.

Nothing other than the little blurbs in the "Features" section on the official site (midway down the page--hey it now has a link in the site's top menu, that wasn't there yesterday ; ), which do not mention customization.

Oh, right! Thanks! Most of them look amazing!

Mmm... Concerning.

I look forward to the exceptional prowess, the specialization in this series in particular from all of you who are long-term seasonal players. I've never had a more elevation with this series to my satisfaction, in odds to old school 2d fighting games from the likes of Alex Valle and many others in their respective fighters, which was from an entirely different timeline.

Although, I don't like to feel such intensity again, but the competitiveness in me is resurfacing. I've only went roughly on an 80% winning steak with every character casually against others, which is decent at best from the beginning few months of it's release in that year, before everything went silent.

Hopefully, people will stay longer this time around and hope I can still keep up with those especially, where their consistency never wavered.

PlayStation Plus Monthly Games - PS4 and PS5 - June 2021 - YouTube

There's new footage here such as the win screen, pre-match start, Eileen's stage and more footage with of trails.

Thanks for letting us know, I personally found his analysis very useful. But when he said SEGA doesn't have experience with online infrastructure for many games I realized that being a PS exclusive makes sense and they'll just use Sony servers. If that's indeed true a PC version sadly becomes much more unlikely.