So, who thinks Sega will announce VF5 at AOU next month?

Sega has been working on NAOMI 3 for some thime now and the AOU is drawing closer. Do you think we'll see something?
I have a feeling they are at least gonna demo the NAOMI3 with something VF related. When thesy unveiled the NAOMI2, they had this cool demo of dozens of VF3 Laus performing katas at something that looked like Sarah's VF4 colloseum stage.
Way back, did Sega use the VF3 demo at the first presentation of Model 3, or did they use something else before that?

 

i hope they announce vf5 =] ~ *crosses fingers and wonders where vf will go next*

 

I think VF3 was the first presentation of model 3, I fondly remember a pasty aoi doing her various dances and reversals on TV screens at E3.

I don't think VF5 will be any time in the next year or more. Yu Suzuki has said it's going to be the last. Therefore they're going to want to blow you away with it, and it's likely to take at least as long between VF4 and 5 as it did between 2 and 3, or 3 and 4.

 

if they announce a VF5 next AOU, i will lose all interest in sega, yu suzuki, AM2, and probably stop playing VF altogether....

dumb ass company,... it would be SO like them.. /versus/images/icons/mad.gif

 

Wow, I don't remember that statement from Suzuki-sama. VF5 the last? that's too bad. Unless it's going to be absoliutely perfect.
The gap between 2 and 3 wasn't that long was it? 28-20 months or so?
VF1 December 1993, VF2 autumn 1994, VF3 summer 1996. The gap to 4 was huge though...
Even if VF5 is the last one, AM2 could still do something like VF4 Revolution, or Evo 2 as a cop-out.

 

Aint no way SEGA will et this be the last.

 

Wow, I'd be really surprised if Sega let VF5 be their last in the series. Why would they want to kill off their flagship fighting game? Unless they develop another name for a fighting series or something ...

 

my 2 cents...

VF5 SHOULD (my wishes) be out in hopefully 6 years or more, and yes im hoping it will be the last one. i will be royally pissed off if they announce vf5 that soon. it takes too many years to fully undertand each game (i wish they'd stop making so many revisions too, but i understand why it must be done, just dont go thought the whole alphabet /versus/images/icons/tongue.gif ). even when vf4 came out i was hoping it didnt cause i didnt played all characters to their full potential.

it should be the last one cause one day, one of the sequels is going to crash and burn, i think they should go with dignity and with the high honor of saying that ALL of the sequels were HUGE succeess, something no fighting game company has. na mean? /versus/images/icons/wink.gif

 

Here's my prediction gentlemen. 2005 is the launch of Playstation 3 and Sega's Premiere of RPG and fighting version of VF5 final, and maybe Suzuki's Weapsons version of fighting simulator for the home console. As far as the arcade is concerned it would be out between late 2003 to early 2004 for VF5. /versus/images/icons/grin.gif

 

It wouldn't surprise me if Sega waited until the PS3 to release Virtua Fighter 5, although judging by how long it took them to get proficient programing in the PS2 environment (which caused slow loading times in VF4), it might take them a special edition a la Evo to get it right.

 

my interpretation of suzukis statement is, that itll be the last VF he'll be directly involved in. Im sure VF will still live long as long it continues the popular support it gets in japan.

 

Releasing VF5 will have nothing to do with any future console's release. Seeing as how the Arcade market is in Japan, and if people there will still spend money on arcades like they are now, Sega will just release it when they think it's a good time. Many players there spend more time on Arcades than consoles. So naturally Sega doesn't make them for consoles, they just port them to consoles later when they can /versus/images/icons/smile.gif.

 

Yu Suzuki did originally plan only 5 iterations of the series, with each iteration tripling the power of its predecessor.

Hence:

VF1 - 100,000 pps
VF2 - 300,000 pps
VF3 - 900,000 pps
VF4 - 2,700,000 pps
VF5 - 8,100,000 pps

I'm guessing the thinking back then (late 80s, early 90s) is that a game running at 8-10m pps would be near photorealistic. That assumption, of course, has now been totally debunked. I think VF4 should already be running at around that number, or near it.

That said, there is no way VF5 will be the last. VF is not only Sega's flagship franchise, it's most likely AM2's biggest source of revenue (keep in mind AM2 is its own business unit).

Also, Suzuki wasn't even really directly involved in the game design process with VF4. That honor falls to...what's his name again? Katagiri?

 

Don't forget VF Quest is coming out for gamecube, it was just announced to be released sometime in 2003, I can't wait to find out more about this mysterious title.

 

IMO, if VF5 really is the last in the VF series, then it could only be that AM2 is brewing up a new game title or something with all, if not, most of the fighters and gameplay from the VF series still intact.

If I remember correctly, Katagiri is also the brain child behind the Fighting Vipers series.

 

FV/VF4/VF4E are mostly the products of the Kataoka/Katagiri dynamic duo.
Knowing the way AM2 works the next VF will not be around for a LONG time. They've got something else in the works in the meantime, we'll see that waaaaaaay before VF5. (Current word here among the consumers in Japan is "chihiro")

 

- Sega announced they will be showing the following game titles at the Next Generation World Hobby Fair in Japan (Jan 19 at Osaka Dome, Jan 25 at Tokyo Makuhari Messe, Feb 2 at Nagoya Dome and Feb 9 at Fukuoka Dome):
<ul type="square"> [*]Virtual Fighter 4 Evolution (PS2)
[*]Super Monkey Ball 2 (GC)
[*]Sonic Mega Collection (GC)
[*]Sonic Advance 2 (GBA)
[*]Beetle King Mushiking (AC)[/list]
Source: http://www.the-magicbox.com/

 

I think Yu will stick to his guns and not make anything else after vf5 - except maybe vf5 evo or something. He has enough of a following, that he could come out with a weapons based fighter or some other type of fighting game, and it would do insainly well in Japan.

 

'Chihiro' from Spirited Away? Wow, that movie is still hot in japan?

I love that movie. And Princess Mononoke too. I must have seen them like 4-5 times. Miyazaki is the man.

 

chihiro is the new arcade board... not the chihiro from sento chihiro.. /versus/images/icons/laugh.gif