Sega has confirmed today that they are developing the next installment of the Virtua Fighter series. The father of 3D fighting games is getting a new entry in the series since the Ultimate Showdown graphical upgrade version of the Final Showdown port in 2021. In an interview with Video Games Chronicle, boss Justin Scarpone from Sega’s transmedia division name-dropped the series as one of the actively developed projects from the revival effort that was announced at last year’s Game Awards.
While most of the new titles were seen in the trailers last year, Virtua Fighter’s new number nor footage was not, causing several to doubt that the series would get the sequel it sorely needed in this effort. At the current time, no other information has been revealed. Nor if Sega’s AM2 will be reprising its role in engineering the new game. Nor has Katsuhiro Harada, producer of Tekken, who has been vocal about Sega needing to announce Virtua Fighter 6. The rumors earlier this year in March have now been confirmed to be somewhat valid.
In the 90s, Tekken and Virtua Fighter iterations were nearly neck-and-neck in terms of releases. After the first 3 iterations being exclusive...
