My messege to Sega:

I've been playing Virtua Fighter since Virtua Fighter 4. Immediately i was completely turned on by the gameplay and in depth of this work of art of a 3d fighter. Before i played virtua fighter. I mostly played tekken for my 3d fighting fix. All of this changed when i managed to play virtua fighter 4 and evolution. I stopped playing tekken has my main source of 3d fighting pleasure and switched to virtua fighter.

Tekken felt dumbed downed and bland with its poor sidestep system. goofy physics, and characters. You and namco are major rivals. You would actually let namco release tekken6 in mainstream western gaming communities without a response.? The Sega i knew wouldn't allow a cheap carbon copy of your fighter to dominate in competitive fighting game communities by making one of your major franchises japan only.

Now is a perfect time to release vf5r in the rest of the world because fighting games are making a huge comeback in the gaming world. If you really want to save money on the console port. just make the game downloadablle content on PSN and Xbox live.

Thank you

-Eric from New York

Beijing VFer from vfchina.net

I think the VF5 console did not reach a big sale figures because at that time 2007, there are not so much PS3 and 360 consoles sold as now. But now, millions of people bought PS3 or 360 in North America, look the sales of TEKKEN 6, SEGA has really big opportunity to earn huge profit. It is no doubt that VF5R has incredible quality than all other fighting games,SEGA should has confident to prove this to all of the world. and WE ARE THE SUPPORTERS.

Sorry for my English, guys

Well, two points:

1.- what about to create a thread ONLY for our personal messages to SEGA, and keep this one for discussion about this effort?? With that off topics, maybe can be chaotic to pick up the "good ones" mesagges.

2.- My message: I'm not an old player in Virtua Fighter series, I have played VF1, Vf4, and at the moment, VF5 on Xbox 360. But the thing is that since VF5, I can't play another fighting game without comparing with VF. Every day I HAVE TO see VF5R videos on Youtube, zoome, etc, and I envy the guys who are playing It...
On my country, I'm pretty sure that you can't play even VF5 in Arcades, so only remains consoles option.
SEGA, you have THE BEST FIGHTING GAME at the moment, no doubt of it!!!
Just let us play it, please!!!
Iván Rodríguez , from Spain.

P.D for you, VFDC. You can edit my message to correct mistakes, or grammar.
Thank You all, specially Kamaage.

I have been an avid fan of the Virtua Fighter franchise since its very first installment. I have purchased consoles based on Virtua Fighter's presence alone. I bought a Saturn for Virtua Fighter 2, a Dreamcast for Virtua Fighter 3, a PlayStation 2 for Virtua Fighter 4, and both a PlayStation 3 and an Xbox 360 for Virtua Fighter 5. The amazing netcode on the 360 showed me what I believed then(as now) to be the future of the franchise. I'd like to see more of that future. Virtua Fighter 5R marks the pinnacle of seventeen years of development. It is the deepest, most polished fighting game in history. As an American consumer and a diehard fan since the age of six, I would give anything and pay any price to see a console release for this stellar game that's captured my heart from the moment I saw it, and I know for a fact that I am not alone in my devotion.

--Maria Angseth, United States of America

I'm not that big of a deal, personally, but I care a lot about VF. It's been my favorite gaming series of ALL TIME in my ENTIRE life. I still remember the day VF1 came out; I was only 2, and my entire family waited in line at Dave & Buster's to play it!

Since then, I can safely say that I've bought and owned every VF game (VF Quest not included) to date, as well as any other Sega fighters related to the series. All of this 5R stuff is very heartbreaking for me, and for the rest of the world; I've had people who've never touched a fighting game in their lives become full-fledged Virtua Fighters just because of 5R, and it's disappointing that we, being of the small, backwater variety, can't travel to Japan to play it and experience it, that we have to sit over here with 5 Online with no opponents, wondering when- and if- we'll ever get to live to try the best fighting game that's ever been released; and I know that an uncountable amount of others second me on that notion.

We're all willing to do what it takes, just so long as we can be graced with a console release. Hell, we'll IMPORT if we have to, just as long as we can get VF5R on consoles.

-- Phillip Parrish, USA

Errr wow alot of drama here. I agree that anything is better than nothing so here is my contribution to the R effort.

When I was a child living in Japan I used to go to roller rinks, bowling alleys etc. and one arcade game always stood out to me from the others. My favorite arcade was the original Virtua Fighter, no other arcade had the bright and colorful 3D polygon characters that had caught my attention like VF had. I remember playing Jeffry and Kage having no idea what I was doing but the colors were so vibrant and it was the first 3D Fighter I had ever seen so it was so appealing. Once I moved from Japan it wouldn't be many years later I happened to venture into a small local arcade and saw a Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution cabinet.

Once again it was the graphics that drew me to the game. Never before had I seen such a graphic display in a fighter before. I started playing it and really wished I had it back at home so I wouldn't have to travel such a far distance to play it. Arcades were dieing out where I lived so having the game to play at home would have been a dream.

A few more years later I go into a Best Buy and look into cheap discount games and see Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution. I bought it and began playing immediately. I began to learn Lion and Jeffry and went through quest mode and fell in love with the game all over again, this time it was the superior fighting game engine that made me look at fighting games from a whole new perspective. I had never went through so much to learn a game before but Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution was what really brought me into fighters. I bought Virtua Fighter 5 the first day and I even pre ordered it. Nothing would make me happier than to have Virtua Fighter 5R to play. I always wanted to play as Taka-Arashi since VF3.

Thank you for the support Kamaage. I will commit what i can to make this happen.

My Message to SEGA: Hello SEGA, I am a huge fighting game fan and have been playing The Virtua Fighter series for a while now. I have been a fighting game fan ever since I bought Virtua Fighter 5 for the PS3. I really appreciate the hard work you put into your games and would love to see the next installment of the series. I really like the look of the new character Jean and I also love that you brought back Taka Arashi. Every aspect of the gameplay is so fluid and technical and that is what makes it unique from all the other games I have tried. As a Virtua Fighter fan, I ask of you a favor for your fans overseas. Please bring Virtua Fighter 5 Revolution to consoles. Thank you for your time you took to read this.

Sincerely Aaron Sorge, Alberta Canada

Thank you for your efforts!

To SEGA: Unlike many people, I do not have a long history of Virtua Fighter. I got interested in VF5 when my roomate had it for Xbox 360 and I got to try it. I was blown away, always being a 2D lover. However, as I had a PS3, I found I couldn't even practice the latest version. Recently, VF5R was announced so I thought that I'd get to play it when that version came out on console. As we know, that still hasn't happened into ver. C...

I want to commit myself and others to a VF scene, but it can't happen without the release in this country. Not only would I and many fighting game players around here support it, but even quite a few people who don't regularly play would even pick up the game (and I noticed this too when some friends of mine who didn't play fighting games picked up VF4 evo when it was new).

Please consider the console market SEGA. The other 3D offerings can't compare at all, I've tried.

Andrew G. - Brooklyn, NY. USA

Here's mine:

TO SEGA: If you release VF5R for the PS3 and Xbox360, with online, I promise to quit Tekken.

Sincerely.

I just wanted to chip in and support the effort to get another VF on the consoles. Kamaage, thanks for reinvigorating this effort.

To cut a long story short: my enthusiasm for the game series is best to be seen from what I've been doing on my Virtua Fighter blog. (Image is clickable as well.)
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