Virtua Fighter 6

Correct me if I am wrong, but did SEGA consoles always perform better in the west than in Japan ?

And if that's the case I fail to see a rebranded Xbox selling just because it has Sega on top.

Also, it's not like Sony is doing hot in Japan. The Japanese market as a volume is so smaller compared to the US and Europe. It's just not worth it.

 

Based on some insider that Sega thing has nothing to do with Microsoft.

And about this whole Sega console thing i don't care much tbh, just give me VF6.

EDIT; New 6th Sega anniversary tease:

 

Let's hope this wasn't the big hardware reveal that was being teased. Because this is as boring as it gets.

https://kotaku.com/sega-is-releasing-a-game-gear-micro-1843869286

 

It's most likely going to be arcade hardware, just not related to VF.

 

It's apparently "Fog Gaming" sorta an arcade service that will allow streaming of the arcade games outside business hours ?

https://twitter.com/serkantoto/status/1268054677834174464?s=19

 

OK so I have this interesting question that probably will have no answer but it's just in my mind for long.

Why hasn't a single journalist/media outlet /random gaming person ever asked a Japanese SEGA's developer/ representative straight about VF6 ? Like Satomi's set of interviews, people keep asking about Sonic and sometimes Yakuza + other more stuff that are more forgotten than Virtua Fighter but never ever Virtua Fighter ?

It's funny, cause a while ago before Ed Boon's account became a place where idiots gather to ask for DLC and bitch about Sindel's retcon like the idiots they are, he used to be very approachable about his projects and time and would give endless hints and interesting stuff behind the scene.

I know it's probably not only SEGA but a universal Japanese development studios culture where it's hard to get information or hints/behind the scene stuff. I just find it interesting that never ever not even once I came across somebody asking SEGA of Japan about Virtua Fighter.

Which leads me to ask, how interested are the Japanese gaming community about Virtua Fighter ?

 

And so? Like i am supposed to care or something? C'mon dude be a bit more serious.

Sure good luck in you own shit, but nobody should care about any stuffs, unless they're interested in the stuff. or else you're gonna more likely look like a Free VRP agent.

 

Akira quote in SEGA's new CEO SATOMI's interview in the SEGA's anniversary interview.
You can be sure that's it's not there by chance or just for the joke,
In the same interview he insists on his will to never betray fans expectations.

If VF is dead it would have been a very bad joke in contradictions with these words

 

Fan expectations are that VF6 will never be made and I'm sure he has no intention to betray that, yeah

 

Either that, or VF6 gets released, and it turns out to be a disappointment, or a nerfed piece of crap. These things, including what MDog said above, seem to be the biggest fears, for a good bunch of VF fans. I'm hoping for a big miracle here, where for once gaming wise, things turn out really good for all of us. (Besides covid 19 and other viruses, disappearing for all eternity.)

 

30 characters with new fighting styles or more.

PS: This topic has been too silent for over a month.
So I had no choice but to bump it up.

 

some people on twitter are spreading a rumor that VF6 was already developed and cancelled at least two times already.

While I think it's all made up, it's not impossible and it will explain the strange attitude of Sega about abandoning one of the most successful arcade series, especially now that arcade are suffering and would really need games like these to survive.


In any case, with the current state of fighting games where everything is downgraded to 2D mechanics, the focus on casual experience, esport and "games as a service" (means incomplete games whre people expect 10 new character for every season pass), maybe it's better if Virtua Fighter doesn't return.