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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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I did - it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if it were announced that Sonic Team would develop for the GameCube.
I know Yuji Naka is keen to work on the console, not to mention that Shiggsy is a big fan of Sonic Team.
Could a development dream-team of Sonic Team and Shigeru Miyamoto be in the pipe-line somewhere? I sure hope so...
-- Steve --
I know Yuji Naka is keen to work on the console, not to mention that Shiggsy is a big fan of Sonic Team.
Could a development dream-team of Sonic Team and Shigeru Miyamoto be in the pipe-line somewhere? I sure hope so...
-- Steve --
Did you see the logo?
The one with Sonic in the middle, with all of the next generation consoles, plus a mobile phone around him?
Looks like Sega will be developing for ALL platforms.
The one with Sonic in the middle, with all of the next generation consoles, plus a mobile phone around him?
Looks like Sega will be developing for ALL platforms.
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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