VF5 coming to 360! (Ps3 loses ANOTHER exclusive)

[zero2dash]

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/12/21/virtua-fighter-5-smacks-ps3-heads-to-360/

This is amazing; man I am so excited. :eek:
VF5 was the only reason I was even considering a Ps3...now I don't have to anymore.

I just hope to god they put in online play. Maybe that's what the 4 month wait will bring us 360 owners?

Man oh man...either way...even without online play...I'm definitely picking this up. I can't wait!!!!! :D
And if they throw in online play as well (Ps3 won't have it)...wow.

[gloss]

That's rough for Sony.

I watched VF5 a bit in Osaka while I was there. Looks great. My friend played and was being extremely lame/cheap because he thought he was laming a computer. He didn't realize that the Japanese fellow on the other side of the machine was beginning to get fed up. He was like 'Oh Hell, are you serious?'

[raggedjimmi]

VF never did it for me, but it's crazy watching all these exclusives not being exclusive any more.

[zero2dash]

I'm just glad as an Xbox/360 owner, I finally get a chance to play a fighting game that is deep. Soul Calibur doesn't do it for me..it's fun but I get bored with the mashing. Dead or Alive...looks pretty but there's only so much jiggling before you get sick of the crappy gameplay. No Tekken but I don't really consider Tekken to involve a lot of skilled gameplay either. (That's not to say that there aren't skilled players out there because I play fighting games with a few Tekken pros here in the US, but largely - Tekken isn't deep either.)

Finally...I get a VF game to satisfy my craving. VF4:Evo on the Ps2 was awesome...I can't wait to finally get to play VF5.

[Haoshiro]

Woah.

This is HUGE news for Xbox 360.

It may not seem that way to a lot of people, but VF is an extremely huge franchise in Japan. To have 360 get this title is a big BIG deal for Microsoft Japan.

I'm glad too, because I have a 360 which made it pretty pointless to dump money on PS3 hardware. One less thing I'm missing and didn't want to.

Again, I'm not sure we realize what a big deal this is for 360, specifically in Japan. Sega has been nice to Xbox in the past, but VF has stayed PS exclusive since the DC died.

[MacRumorUser]

FAN BLOODY TASTIC..

Seriously great news. I knew sega wouldnt forsake me ;) :D

Bad news for sony, great news for xbox beat em up fans.

[MacRumorUser]

IGN reporting it too

Xbox 360 Gets Virtua Fighter 5
SEGA stunner goes multiplatform in 2007.
by Justin Keeling, IGN UK

UK, December 21, 2006 - In a move bound to get certain fists pumping in the hardcore gaming fraternity, SEGA today announced that its much hyped PlayStation 3 exclusive Virtua Fighter 5 officially will come to Xbox 360 in late summer 2007.

The last game in the Virtua Fighter series was a PS2 exclusive, which sold exceptionally well on Sony's system. Virtua Figher 5 had been hyped for some time as a killer PS3 exclusive for fighting fans, but -- following in the footsteps of Assassin's Creed and GTA IV -- will also go multi-platform.

The PS3 version still retains some level of exclusivity, with a US release on February 20 and with the console's launch in Europe. The Xbox 360 version will ship in late summer 2007, according to SEGA.

Virtua Fighter 5 offers worldwide fighting stages in which as many as 17 contestants vie, including two new characters, El Blaze, a wrestler somewhat like Wolf, and Eileen, who employs a Chinese Monkey Kung-Fu fighting style. SEGA also has implemented a new "offensive move" enabling players to take down opponents from different angles; these moves are believed to set VF5 apart from past VF games. Like in Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution, players can customize their characters. They can pick from four base costumes in the beginning, and then choose from a wide spectrum of unlockable accessories items as they progress. By winning more tournaments, players not only earn costumes and accessories, they receieve prizes and in-game money for browsing in the in-game shop.

"SEGA delivers the most technical fighting game experience on Xbox 360 with this installment of the award-winning Virtua Fighter series," said Scott A. Steinberg, vice president marketing, SEGA of America. "Virtua Fighter 5 takes full advantage of Xbox 360's hardware with action-packed gameplay, customizable characters, stunning graphics and highly detailed 3D fighting environments."

"The Virtua Fighter series from SEGA has one of the most prestigious histories in video games," said Jeff Bell, corporate VP of marketing at Xbox. "It's a franchise that has grown an army of loyal fans both in arcades and on consoles worldwide, and is consistently rated extremely high by the media. Fighting game fans have been hungry for Virtua Fighter 5 and we can now proudly deliver this game with Sega to Xbox 360 gamers around the world."

We'll have more on Virtua Fighter 5 in the near future.

What are we betting there will be bonus extras in the 360 version just to rub salt into the wound.

[kjr39]

I was just looking up this title earlier this week. Awesome!

They still need to add someone that does Aikido if you ask me...

[clayj]

Soon the only exclusive the PS3 will have will be on the name "PS3".