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Taken from IGN.com's website;
This is, beyond all doubt, the most unexpected news story IGNPS2 has ever delivered to you. Virtua Fighter 4, the next installment in Yu Suzuki's consistently groundbreaking 3D fighting series, is a PlayStation 2 exclusive, Sega of America confirmed with IGNPS2 today.
VF4 is not the only Sega project in the works for PS2. It will be accompanied onto Sony's console by Space Channel 5, two games from the "Let's Make A Sports Team" series, and unspecified games from the Sakura Taisen strategy/RPG series. No release date has been attached to any particular title. However, in the press release announcing its new strategy, Sega described all of the above as "The first Sega games to be available on other game consoles this year."
It is not April Fool's Day, and this is not a joke. Virtua Fighter 4 is being developed from the ground up, by AM2, with Yu Suzuki at the helm, exclusively for PS2. Sega's sudden multi-console blitz will include a wide variety of titles, but Virtua Fighter is undoubtedly the flagship -- a new creation of technology and design from one of the company's premier developers and continuing one of its most famous franchises.
This is not a signal that AM2 is throwing all their support behind PS2, as the next chapter of Shenmue is still coming to Dreamcast, nor does it indicate that Sega is aligning themselves squarely behind Sony, given its announced intention to be a "platform agnostic" third-party developer. However, PlayStation 2 is the only console for which Sega has so far announced it will create titles for as a third party. Furthermore, if a Sega creation as significant as VF4 is coming to PlayStation 2 this soon, we can only assume that it's the start of an extended commitment on Sega's part to PS2.
Thoughts?
-- Steve --
This is, beyond all doubt, the most unexpected news story IGNPS2 has ever delivered to you. Virtua Fighter 4, the next installment in Yu Suzuki's consistently groundbreaking 3D fighting series, is a PlayStation 2 exclusive, Sega of America confirmed with IGNPS2 today.
VF4 is not the only Sega project in the works for PS2. It will be accompanied onto Sony's console by Space Channel 5, two games from the "Let's Make A Sports Team" series, and unspecified games from the Sakura Taisen strategy/RPG series. No release date has been attached to any particular title. However, in the press release announcing its new strategy, Sega described all of the above as "The first Sega games to be available on other game consoles this year."
It is not April Fool's Day, and this is not a joke. Virtua Fighter 4 is being developed from the ground up, by AM2, with Yu Suzuki at the helm, exclusively for PS2. Sega's sudden multi-console blitz will include a wide variety of titles, but Virtua Fighter is undoubtedly the flagship -- a new creation of technology and design from one of the company's premier developers and continuing one of its most famous franchises.
This is not a signal that AM2 is throwing all their support behind PS2, as the next chapter of Shenmue is still coming to Dreamcast, nor does it indicate that Sega is aligning themselves squarely behind Sony, given its announced intention to be a "platform agnostic" third-party developer. However, PlayStation 2 is the only console for which Sega has so far announced it will create titles for as a third party. Furthermore, if a Sega creation as significant as VF4 is coming to PlayStation 2 this soon, we can only assume that it's the start of an extended commitment on Sega's part to PS2.
Thoughts?
-- Steve --
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er-no wrote:
> errrrr-yeah Virtua Fighter, woohooo another sequel, yummy i think
> not.
That's a really SNIPER type reply! There's nothing wrong with sequels, it's only when the sequel fails to rise above its ealier version in terms of gameplay and ideas, that it's annoying.
Sega rarely disappoint.
New Alex Kidd games anyone?
> errrrr-yeah Virtua Fighter, woohooo another sequel, yummy i think
> not.
That's a really SNIPER type reply! There's nothing wrong with sequels, it's only when the sequel fails to rise above its ealier version in terms of gameplay and ideas, that it's annoying.
Sega rarely disappoint.
New Alex Kidd games anyone?
Erk!
Yeah!... Well, hey... just dont you forget that... you'd better be carful because I know... If I wanted to I could bring up... Dont forget I've got photos of that time when...
Well, I think I've given you a piece of my mind... let that be a leeson for you my good man!
-- Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.
Yeah!... Well, hey... just dont you forget that... you'd better be carful because I know... If I wanted to I could bring up... Dont forget I've got photos of that time when...
Well, I think I've given you a piece of my mind... let that be a leeson for you my good man!
-- Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.
errrrr-yeah Virtua Fighter, woohooo another sequel, yummy i think not.
...Err... well...
...PC Format! PC FORMAT!! Good God...
:D
...PC Format! PC FORMAT!! Good God...
:D
Not used to my style of post-modern irony I see...
o;-)
o;-)
Not used to my style of ranting I see... ah well. Better learn quick... :P
Then dont tell us... never express yourself... keep all your emotions and feelings down, repress, repress, follow the crowd, never question, dont cause a fuss....
-- If cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
-- If cops arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
God this is awkward...
I grew up with a Megadrive. Sega made my childhood, (What childhood?), quite fun. Seeing them reduced to this is quite strange.
Certainly Sega will live on now, thanks to their decision. I AM glad because of that... but still...
Back in the "good" old days, when it was just the two player fight, and consoles had two controllers, when games were games... (GET ON WITH IT! - Quest for the Holy Grail.)
Anyway. A distinct relationship was formed between Sega and Nintendo, after the first shaky years... with Nintendo trying to utterly dominate the market, they backed down, and accepted their opposition, on the grounds that they were in fact as good as they were, if not better in quite a few areas.
A respect for the enemy. Something to look up to, but at eyelevel. Everything needs a nemesis.
Yes... Nintendo was Sega's nemesis, and Sega Nintendo's. But as with all ongoing wars, a large amount of respect was gathered from either side, and although Nintendo and Sega was never at peace, the relationship between them, were more like two brothers trying to beat eachother in a hundred metres sprint, than two countries set out for war.
And as both brothers went to war agaisnt eachother for, so it seems, the last time, one brother trips and falls, and the other brother has to watch on.
Help the brother, or race on...
So the line stands unbroken still... Sega are now coaching the runners instead of running, and Nintendo seem to be weak in the eyes of the press because they don't have the fancy shorts/t-shirt/trainers like the opposition does.
More runners enter. Gaming fans will seem lonely without Sega, but games will appear from their creative hands, and at last all those biased gamers will see what they were missing all those years...
I grew up with a Megadrive. Sega made my childhood, (What childhood?), quite fun. Seeing them reduced to this is quite strange.
Certainly Sega will live on now, thanks to their decision. I AM glad because of that... but still...
Back in the "good" old days, when it was just the two player fight, and consoles had two controllers, when games were games... (GET ON WITH IT! - Quest for the Holy Grail.)
Anyway. A distinct relationship was formed between Sega and Nintendo, after the first shaky years... with Nintendo trying to utterly dominate the market, they backed down, and accepted their opposition, on the grounds that they were in fact as good as they were, if not better in quite a few areas.
A respect for the enemy. Something to look up to, but at eyelevel. Everything needs a nemesis.
Yes... Nintendo was Sega's nemesis, and Sega Nintendo's. But as with all ongoing wars, a large amount of respect was gathered from either side, and although Nintendo and Sega was never at peace, the relationship between them, were more like two brothers trying to beat eachother in a hundred metres sprint, than two countries set out for war.
And as both brothers went to war agaisnt eachother for, so it seems, the last time, one brother trips and falls, and the other brother has to watch on.
Help the brother, or race on...
So the line stands unbroken still... Sega are now coaching the runners instead of running, and Nintendo seem to be weak in the eyes of the press because they don't have the fancy shorts/t-shirt/trainers like the opposition does.
More runners enter. Gaming fans will seem lonely without Sega, but games will appear from their creative hands, and at last all those biased gamers will see what they were missing all those years...
Oh great so now Virtua Fighter.
Interesting - Sega are producing their flagship titles for other consoles ASAP......
I've never played Virtua Fighter so I don't know how good it is...
But don't forget that Sega published PC games a few years back, so they're hardly entering unexplored areas.
I've never played Virtua Fighter so I don't know how good it is...
But don't forget that Sega published PC games a few years back, so they're hardly entering unexplored areas.
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