View Full Version : VF5 confirmed PS3 exclusive.
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=6149349
fatmanforlife99
05-08-2006, 04:50 AM
and it starts
RAMSTORIA
05-08-2006, 04:55 AM
god dammit...
well this will really help sony solidify PS3 success in Japan, as VF is easily the most popular 3d fighthing game in Japan.
FriskyTanuki
05-08-2006, 05:36 AM
Sweet. The PS3 is shaping up to be a fine fighter's system.
jer7583
05-08-2006, 05:57 AM
I would have bought it for 360. oh well.
Mookyjooky
05-08-2006, 08:11 AM
Thats funny, cause the Xbox guys knew that this was one of the things that did them in against Sony, and Microsoft said that they wouldnt make the same mistake twice. And here it is.
evilmax17
05-08-2006, 09:22 AM
Weird how Sega would give Sony such fine treatment after they burried the Dreamcast. Of course, Sega isn't really the Sega that we knew and loved, much like how Atari isn't really Atari at all.
Next gen is looking strikingly similar to last/current gen in terms of exclusives.
MS should've opened their pockets and just bought Sega right out.
Apossum
05-08-2006, 12:04 PM
cha-ching. how did ms lose that one...it might have helped them move a few more systems in japan,
Chacrana
05-08-2006, 12:12 PM
No online play kinda sucks but hell... it's VF 5... if Evo was any indication, I can keep myself entertained for weeks with the single player stuff.
CoffeeEdge
05-08-2006, 12:15 PM
Virtua Fighter, whatever. What system is getting Afterburner Climax, is what I'm wondering. I will toss aside all of my prejudices and biases and buy whatever home system that game ends up on.
Monsta Mack
05-08-2006, 03:32 PM
This is a huge blow to MS. I can't believe they would let this go by. Sony must be throwing money into the pit.
i am gussin the poor sale of x360 could also have something to do with this.
DomLando
05-08-2006, 03:54 PM
i am gussin the poor sale of x360 could also have something to do with this.
Agree'ed.
sblymnlcrymnl
05-08-2006, 05:16 PM
Shit, now I might have to get a PS3. :cry: :lol:
RelentlessRolento
05-08-2006, 05:50 PM
I can see the PS3 as the system to own for people who love 3D fighters... thank you sega for not doing this on the 360 (plus, I don't think the 360 could handle this game graphicly).
shipwreck
05-08-2006, 05:52 PM
thank you sega for not doing this on the 360 (plus, I don't think the 360 could handle this game graphicly).
What the hell?
RelentlessRolento
05-08-2006, 06:06 PM
What the hell?
:rofl:
Skelah
05-09-2006, 05:09 AM
even tho i love virtua fighter...no online play? what is this playstation one?? no fighting game should lack online play at this point and they all should definatly have it by the time this comes out.
Apossum
05-09-2006, 11:41 AM
even tho i love virtua fighter...no online play? what is this playstation one?? no fighting game should lack online play at this point and they all should definatly have it by the time this comes out.
vf would suffer big time. DoA is only online because they can afford to drop frames and stuff. As a result, it's like two different games -- online and offline. Japan takes their VF very seriously, so they just want pure, unadulterated VF.
Dr Mario Kart
05-09-2006, 11:44 AM
none of the serious fighting game communities want online play. When you have moves with inputs that have windows of down to ONE single frame,...you really cant do it online. Frame traps are abused enough without having the advantage of them being INVISIBLE.
RelentlessRolento
05-09-2006, 01:09 PM
online for VF would be death for the series. Akira players would know this best since there's a ton of Just Frame moves and the slightest delay would ruin every reason to play Akira.
Dkellar
05-09-2006, 01:17 PM
Woot.
humidore
05-09-2006, 03:52 PM
OK, so online fighting would be impossible, but I think they should really allow some other online functionality. Maybe training AI bots (I didn't play the original console VF4, but it had this I think), or showing off your characters, trading items, I dunno....They do an excellent job of making you *think* you're playing other people though.
RelentlessRolento
05-09-2006, 03:53 PM
OK, so online fighting would be impossible, but I think they should really allow some other online functionality. Maybe training AI bots (I didn't play the original console VF4, but it had this I think), or showing off your characters, trading items, I dunno....They do an excellent job of making you *think* you're playing other people though.
It could work out like Tekken DR for PSP where you download ghosts of other players.
GuilewasNK
05-09-2006, 03:58 PM
Online should be included. The hardcore players can still play it offline and the online can attract new players. It's not like it would have been online only. This news doesn't matter much in NA, but in Japan this will kill the 360. Part of the reason VF isn't more accepted in NA is becasue the series does very little to attract new gamers. They started getting on the right track with VF4: Evo with all the nice special features and less vanilla character designs though.
Mookyjooky
07-10-2006, 11:49 AM
I just bought a European mag. yesterday that had info on the dev of it for the 360 - as well as a video on the DVD of people playing it with the controllers.
Dont lose hope!
PrivatePixel
07-10-2006, 02:13 PM
It appears that the decision to make it a PS3 exclusive was driven by two reasons: 1) VF4 on the PS2, and 2) hardware-related, with nVidia being the common denominator.
From Eurogamer (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=65823):
One of the reasons Virtua Fighter 5 is a PlayStation 3 exclusive is that the team was already used to working with NVIDIA graphics hardware, according to SEGA AM2 president Hiroshi Kataoka.
Speaking in an interview with Japanese Ge-Maga, partly translated by IGN, Kataoka said the fact that Virtua Fighter 4 had been established on PlayStation 2 also played a part in the decision.
"There is the fact that VF4 had already been released on the PS2, but another big reason is that the [arcade technology] Lindbergh and PS3 GPUs are both from NVIDIA, so the technical barriers are low. Also, VF5 is tuned to the limits of the Lindbergh's capabilities, so multiplatform development would have been difficult," he said.
Roufuss
07-10-2006, 02:27 PM
Online should be included. The hardcore players can still play it offline and the online can attract new players. It's not like it would have been online only. This news doesn't matter much in NA, but in Japan this will kill the 360. Part of the reason VF isn't more accepted in NA is becasue the series does very little to attract new gamers. They started getting on the right track with VF4: Evo with all the nice special features and less vanilla character designs though.
The Virtua Fighting games are all about the frames... the smallest bit of lag would completely destroy an online game, you would have to have a lag free game for top VF players to really go at it.
camoor
07-10-2006, 02:40 PM
Does third-party exclusive really mean anything anymore? I remember when GTA was a PS2 exclusive, and Res Evil was a GC exclusive.
Mookyjooky
07-10-2006, 03:09 PM
From what I understand though, the Xbox 360 is the closest to the Naomi hardware... I'll never lose hope!
RelentlessRolento
07-10-2006, 03:25 PM
From what I understand though, the Xbox 360 is the closest to the Naomi hardware... I'll never lose hope!
i never heard of VF5 running on Naomi hardware...? I think you got the name wrong... The closest hardware to Naomi is the Dreamcast.
BKPartisan
07-10-2006, 03:28 PM
I am not an expert with wireless technology, but wouldn't just having the new wireless controllers add some lag to the game when playing locally? (compared to wires)
The Virtua Fighting games are all about the frames... the smallest bit of lag would completely destroy an online game, you would have to have a lag free game for top VF players to really go at it.
Roufuss
07-10-2006, 03:30 PM
I am not an expert with wireless technology, but wouldn't just having the new wireless controllers add some lag to the game when playing locally? (compared to wires)
I've never noticed a lag at all on my wireless controllers for PS2, and I'm using the Logitech ones.
soonersfan60
07-10-2006, 04:06 PM
well this will really help sony solidify PS3 success in Japan, as VF is easily the most popular 3d fighthing game in Japan.
Having VF didn't save the Dreamcast...
Metal Boss
07-10-2006, 04:19 PM
Alot of things didn't save the dreamcast, this was Sega coming off a losing streak with sega cd, 32x, saturn...etc
Sega and Sony don't make a good couple to compare and contrast.
Having VF didn't save the Dreamcast...
But it barely saved the Saturn in Japan.
RelentlessRolento
07-10-2006, 04:37 PM
really, if any game saves the PS3, and I hate to admit it, will be MGS4. Other than that I have ahrd time seeing a fighting game save a system in this day and age, though I would love for it to happen.
seanr1221
07-10-2006, 04:58 PM
I figured this would happen. Sucks for MS in japan though.
I'm not upset though...now if Sony gets exclusive rights to the next Soul Calibur, then I'll be pissed.
RelentlessRolento
07-10-2006, 05:09 PM
I figured this would happen. Sucks for MS in japan though.
I'm not upset though...now if Sony gets exclusive rights to the next Soul Calibur, then I'll be pissed.
I'll be happy... mainly if it meant exclusive for 360 or PS3... but if it's on both it's fine. Personyll, it's mainly due to the damn controls.
PrivatePixel
07-10-2006, 05:43 PM
From what I understand though, the Xbox 360 is the closest to the Naomi hardware... I'll never lose hope!
Having the 360 equated to NAOMI or even NAOMI 2 isn't much of a selling point; if anything, it would be perceived as a drawback. Both are pretty old boards: NAOMI was demonstrated in 1998, NAOMI 2 in 2000.
Metal Boss
07-10-2006, 06:08 PM
Dreamcast had beautiful games, equal to the ps2 if they would have kept going no doubt.
daphatty
07-11-2006, 12:10 AM
Is it me or is Virtua Fighter becoming Sega's equivalent to Namco's Ridge Racer?
(If my point eludes you, I'm refering to the fact that Ridge Racer appears as a launch title for EVERY newly released console.)
RelentlessRolento
07-11-2006, 12:23 AM
Is it me or is Virtua Fighter becoming Sega's equivalent to Namco's Ridge Racer?
(If my point eludes you, I'm refering to the fact that Ridge Racer appears as a launch title for EVERY newly released console.)
hmm... well, it's not like namco hasn't done it with their tekken series, almost always having something near launch... it's ususally RR then Tekken.
I think VF needs a few more launch releases before it truely becomes Sega's RR.