Virtua Fighter 5 Playstation 3 Version

Hello, this thread will be the home to all the details regarding the Playstation 3 version of Virtua Fighter 5.

Post your comments, hype, complaints, news, info, or anything else that relates to the upcoming release of VF5.

We know so far that it will be based on Version B...

 

...and apparently has no online AT ALL!!!

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regarding the online functionality, maybe AM2 are already satisfied with ver.B and they don`t want to put any online functionality just fore the sake of time consuming. or they already planning on making VF6 so they don`t need to upgrade VF5 and hurt VF6 in terms on new moves and balance shit. i`m not trying to be optimistic but there is the possibility of it. since games like T6, SC4 and DOA5 been announced, maybe AM2 don`t want to loss the competition of high visual graphics to other companies. although i highly doubt that any fighting games comes out now wont be comparable to VF5`s visuals.  
so in other words, online functionality isn't that important. maybe.....

 

I think one of the main reasons vf4 evo is so unpopular outside of Japan (definately so here in the UK) is that new players have noone to play against. They either travel to play people like us who play it all the time, and get their ass handed to them or they play it in single player mode. Both options quickly lead to the same thing = Boredom. All the new players die off. I dont think spangly new graphics of vf5 will really change this fact. Sega ommiting online play will shoot them in the foot I think. I reckon in a years time we will all be in the same situation as we are now with vf evo- sod all people to play against. I could go on about this for hours, I just think including an online match-up function would have been straight forward enough and even if it didnt work brilliantly it would have encouraged people to stick at it and get good at the game. Looks like I'll have to pay 60 quid to travel and play someone for half a day still. Fuck this.

 

General response:

It really is a loss on AM2's part.

"Well it's not X company's fault."

It's always someone's or a group of people's fault. Wether you want to point the finger at AM2, SOA, SOJ, someone's mom... someone fucked up. Someone's ego/pride/shitty concept got in the way and the potential of this huge console release has been neutered.

Don't make excuses for Sega.

"US players don't like VF / VF isn't popular in the US"

This isn't the arcade era anymore. That time died long ago. This is a console market that is flourishing, and VF5 isn't being designed to take advantage of that market. There is no incentive to play VF5. I can't get items, I can't bring my fucking profile over to a friend's house, and no <font color="red">I can't fucking play online</font>.

No incentive. No support.

Fuck Sega, and this isn't about past attempts at making this a popular fighting game for arcades. It's about now, the present time, about the chance to redefine/change how these games are played for the future..

Bottomline: The "dashboard" online community was a great opportunity to jump in on a working framework.

Oh and don't wanna hear anything about Japan and their arcade scene being in jeopardy. This is a domestic market that I'm referring to and these are my personal feelings.

 

I agree with Jerky.

GE

 

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Jerky said:

Oh and don't wanna hear anything about Japan and their arcade scene being in jeopardy. This is a domestic market that I'm referring to and these are my personal feelings.

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Like I said in another thread, if they're really so worried about the Japanese arcade scene, don't have online for the Japanese version. Just look at Motorstorm, the Japanese version doesn't have online, but the American version will. I don't see why they can't do it that way. Everybody wins!

 

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Poppa said:



Like I said in another thread, if they're really so worried about the Japanese arcade scene, don't have online for the Japanese version. Just look at Motorstorm, the Japanese version doesn't have online, but the American version will. I don't see why they can't do it that way. Everybody wins!

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Piss off the people who bring and have bought in the vast majority of profit associated with the VF series?
Great business sense.

 

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Madin said:

Piss off the people who bring and have bought in the vast majority of profit associated with the VF series?
Great business sense.

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How would that piss them off? They'll still have their arcade scene which I'm sure they'll prefer over online vs. How well does the home version sell like in Japan anyways?

 

People in Japan buy the home port to practice by themselves or train with their teammates in Japan. They don't give a shit about online. They play in the arcades if they want competition. It's more of a hassle for them to play online.


The US is the complete opposite however.

 

So what has the team that's been working on the port for the PS3 been doing, exactly? The video card is the same, so porting it was easy as hell. Blue Ray has a ton of space, so there's no space issue whatsoever apparently. Any gameplay tweaks will be made by the arcade team, and the team working on the PS3 version will just copy it. Has the many months between VF5's release and February '07 only allowed for the development of the Training mode? REALLY?

No online VF.TV. Nothing remotely like VF Terminal. No ghost data. When Version C and new items come out, we'll be left sucking our thumbs again. I can't agree more with all the sentiments I've seen here regarding Sega's decision. If all the wack-ass Sonic games that have been coming out for years now were any example, then we should have seen this coming from miles away.

If I'm this upset, I can only imagine how upset you guys, who have been in the scene so much longer than I, must be.

 

Unless there is backlash in Japan about no online support (in that so the game can be updated to whatever most recent revision afterwards or other things like some form of VFTV or VFNET), things will stay the status quo.

One can only hope. ='(

 

I read that the technology is not up to running VF5 online without lag and when they tried to recreate the game with the lag needed to run smoothly online it felt like another game, not VF5. At that point they decided that to keep the VF feel they would forgo the online attempts. I read that from an interveiw with the current director of th VF series.
I really hope they fix that problem because as much as I LOVE Virtua Fighter, it does get boring fighting the computer after a while.
The US market is definitely online orientated. I don't know the last time I went to an arcade. Oh yeah, it was to play VF4 and I was the only one playing. As soon as the console version came out I bought a PS2 and haven't been back to an arcade since.

 

Curious, Is there any word of a mode that excels the Quest mode in vf evo or just an minor upgrade from the quest mode?

 

CLFDrunkenFist, it's not that everyone here is complaining about no online versus. Granted it would be nice. What everyone is really pissed about is NO ONLINE PERIOD.

I'm still hoping that they meant no online modes, but game patches are still in. Although, a VF.NET feature would have rocked, and so would uploadable ghost data...

 

Hi, Is VF5 On PS3 Arcade perfect?! or it will have a loss in quality?! & is it 1080p or 720p res? any one got any clue?

 

It's arcade perfect and in 720p.

 

Well, what can I say...?
Considering the fact that in the Dominican Republic there is not a single FT machine, VF5 for PS3 will be a very big deal and it will come with a lot of things to explore for us. But that is not the point here.

Sega shouldn't confuse Online Playing (that is not for VF in my opinion) with Online Features. On this second part, Sega lost an opportunity to develop things that could increase the interest of VF in US and in the rest of America.

Not Only That!! But give us the opportunity to go along with future tuning of the arcade version was something that I didn’t imagine being without. SEGA, please, even DOA has it, why can't we? I was very shocked to see that Version B was only because of a single player mode.

Since the US release is only like 10 days away of the Japanese Launch, I lost all hope of getting a difference product.

NO VF-TV EMULATION, NO ITEMS AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST: NO NEW VERSION UPDATES!!

The really sad thing is that while SEGA do not use such powerful options, I am very sure that Namco, with the next Tekken, will /versus/images/graemlins/tear.gif Increasing with this, the already big fighting scene of this game.


Heta Akira

p.s.
SEGA at least give us the HG Stick here in America so we don't have to go broke by having to import the thing.

 

I'm hoping...nay...PRAYING to the fighting game Gods!

That this is just a marketing thing for Sega so that people will be more willing to buy the VF5 Revolution (trademark).

VF4 evolution only got around a third of the sales VF4 did in the States. So, I guess their logic would be that if Revo were to have full out online features (except versus), and better graphics with two new characters, then people would be more willing to dish out the cash.

If that isn't it, then I'll be making a SACRIFICE to the fighting game Gods that it was all just lost in translation. That when Sega said no online features, they didn't consider updates a feature, but a necessity...

Ya, I know...I'm grasping at straws...

 

Poppa I guess there will be no vf5 evo or whatever on ps3. It was pretty unusual for Sega to release an updated vf4 considering how unpopular the game is in the first place. The poor sales of evo has probably sealed that deal- meaning I dont think they will try it again with vf5. I think were stuck with what weve got, nothing will change at this point as the release is soon. Ill be nearly 30 by the time vf6 comes out so if vf5 on ps3 turns out to be slightly shit, Ill be pretty peeved.