June 29th the Big Day for the Big Update
In Japan, next Thursday will be the day arcade-goers can formally play the next evolution in the Virtua Fighter 5 franchise.
The newest revision, dubbed Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, will begin trickling into local arcades starting then. Final Showdown includes new costumes, moves, tweaked mechanics, and the ability to directly Tweet achievements while playing.
There’s still no official word on whether Final Showdown will debut across the Pacific. We reported in late April of chatter regarding a possible console port of Final Showdown to both XBOX 360 and PS3, and we’ll be watching to see how that plays out in the coming weeks and months.
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This has nothing to do with Sonic.
@Rave. Its something better though.
Virtua Fighter is AWSOME… this remind me of Sega Saturn, good old days
This is great news for the Japanese! With any luck, we’ll see a few English-language reviews on the internet within the next few weeks, and we’ll know just how good the latest instalment to the series really is. I certainly hope that there will be a console release, especially for PS3 owners; their version of Virtua Fighter 5 didn’t come with online play, so it would be highly beneficial to a large group of fans if SEGA provided them with it. Oh, and as a point of interest: does anyone know what arcade board Final Showdown runs on?