Sega Says a New Virtua Fighter Is in Improvement — May Virtua Fighter 6 Lastly Be on the Horizon?

A brand new Virtua fighter sport seems to be within the works after obvious affirmation from Sega itself.

In an interview with VGC, Justin Scarpone, Sega’s new world head of transmedia, dropped the doubtless explosive information as a part of a dialogue concerning the numerous legacy titles the corporate is bringing again with new variations.

Right here’s the quote:

So now we have a collection of titles in improvement proper now that fall into that legacy bucket, which we introduced final 12 months at The Sport Awards; Loopy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, Shinobi, and now we have one other Virtua Fighter being developed. And so all that’s very thrilling. After which in sure situations, we’re additionally doing animation sequence, or live-action movies to reinforce that and be a part of these roadmaps.

That innocuous point out of a brand new Virtua Fighter has already set tongues wagging inside the preventing sport neighborhood. Virtua Fighter hasn’t seen a mainline launch in years, leaving mini-game appearances in Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s Yakuza video games and the 2021 launch of Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown to tide followers over. IGN has requested Sega for remark.

Virtua Fighter, which incorporates characters resembling Akira Yuki, Pai Chan, and Wolf Hawkfield, is on the hardcore finish of the preventing sport spectrum, with slower-paced gameplay that challenges gamers to grasp its mechanics to be able to take pleasure in success. Virtua Fighter 5, which first launched in 2006, is taken into account one of many biggest preventing video games of all time. May Sega now be able to launch Virtua Fighter 6, almost 20 years later?

Throughout The Sport Awards 2023, Sega introduced new video games within the Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, and Loopy Taxi franchises alongside the teaser trailer, beneath. The video reveals temporary clips of every of the video games set to return.

Sega has stated its Loopy Taxi reboot, for instance, is an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA sport. There is no such thing as a launch date but for the Loopy Taxi reboot or any of the opposite new video games introduced finally 12 months’s Sport Awards. Maybe we’ll discover out extra in December.

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