Next-Gen recently spoke with Sega's Scott Steinberg, who explained his statements about Wii's (lack of) longevity, why PS3 users were stiffed on Virtual Fighter 5 online and Sega's colonization of the Western world.
Steinberg explains that in fact Sega is currently balancing its portfolio quite evenly between all major platforms, including PC. Right now, the firm isn't banking on one sole platform.
"Are we placing bets [on one particular platform]? No one can tell right now who'll 'win.' It's still too early. All three consoles have got the right materials for success. That alchemy is there across all three different platforms. I guess that's being defined a bit differently with Nintendo, but they definitely have their own consumer-oriented track, which we think is great. So I think from a third-party publisher's standpoint it's not wise to make bets right now that don't include all three consoles."
Plus celebrate Sonic’s 30th anniversary with a trio of titles: Sonic Mania, Team Sonic Racing and Sonic Forces.
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Witcher III, Slay the Spire, Virtua Fighter 5, and Sonic Mania are an excellent lineup of titles to add.
All the disagreeing are fools. You thinking adding a 6yrs old game thats timed, that's on sale nearly all the time for cheap is a great addition as the main game?? 2 of the games are previous PS+ games so a lot will already have them. And Virtua Fighter nearly everyone will already have that through plus! You're all Clueless
Great great game. Would need another playthrough (Gwent and horse racing) to get the platinum, plus I never bought/played the expansions.
Agreed but I almost slept on it if I’m honest.
It’s like a traditional turn based RPG without the dramatic story. Monster Train is another good game if you need something similar to Slay the Spire.
Although fighting games are entering a new Golden Age, there's a number of franchises that deserve to be brought back.
Because the other 10 mentioned series were better. Star Gladiator 2 was just the first part with more characters, Battle Arena Toshinden went really downhill after the 2nd game.
o got it. Cause you said those games aren't as good... Got it.
since Battle 1&2 were pretty damn good and Star Gladiator 1 was very good those sound like perfect games to remake.
Also saying a fighting game is the same as it's predecessor with more characters sums up like 90% of all sequel fighting games.
Also BA3 was not a bad game and wasn't given a bad reception.
I think licensing is one of the major reasons Fight for NY hasn't been ported, since its original release. Def Jam had a poll on their Twitter a year or two ago asking if people would be interested in a new entry to the series. A surprise next gen release with AKI developing it would be cool
Definitely yes to Weaponlord, Bloody Roar, Rival Schools, Power Stone, Bushido Blade, Darkstalkers, and the Def Jam games. I was really big into fighting games when I was younger. I would Like Primal Rage, B.A,T., and Eternal Champions to come back as well.
Primal Rage was good. There was also another game that was kinda like Weaponlord that I used to really like but I can't remember the name.
Ready to Rumble was cool back int he day as well
It’s been a while since we got a new Virtua Fighter game. What’s going with the series?
Ask Sega. All of Yu's games haven't gotten updates. And they aren't helping to bring Shenmue 3 to console and PC. Spent most of their time on Sonic and Yakuza. Like they forgot the man that got them started. He was the "Miyamoto of Sega." Too many hits under hits belt.
VF is one of the best if not the best, technical fighters around based on real fighting styles. No supers, no finishers,etc. I wish there wasn't any juggling. It was fun as a videogame mechanic but I would like full realism for a fighting game. It's like adding nos to Gran Turismo. Would be fun. Just doesn't fit the realism Kaz wants in his game of winning through skill and perseverance.
I'm hoping for a new Sega surge of games in and out of VR and more respect for Yu and his properties. It's just not the same Sega I grew up with though.
As a side thing, Sega could have even updated Last Bronx to a modern fighter like Namco did with Soul Blade to Soul Calibur.
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But they've sat on that too.
I 100% agree with what you said about VF. As someone who use to play VF5 at a high level I want nothing more than VF6 however, I’m scared to see what would happen to VF in this day and age of super meters, rage bars and 100 hit combos.
Loved me some VF wish they would update the game i still remember my first Jeffery power bomb on VF 1.
how hard isit to mak a game online?
Yeah, I bought VF5 and I've hardly played it as there's no-one that wants to play me! Most of my friends hate VF5, so I was a bit miffed when they said it would have no online play. Then I got extremely pissed when I hear that it will now have online play for another console.
Well, that is the last Virtual Fighter game i'm going to buy, i'm about to trade it in for more worthwhile game. Bring on Tekken:DR online, Soul Calibur 4 and Tekken 6!
Kiss my ass Sega!
I wasnt going to buy this for the 360 but since it has online now I will get it! Looks and seems to play better than DOA.
"They’re perfectionists, I guess is probably a better way to say it" he said about their development team for VF5... and yet as perfectionists they have no problem releasing a rushed game for the PS3 launch windown without online play. Oh yea that's perfectionism at it's finest..
Yep that is very true and in some was two faced just like when he made negative comments about the Wii and then said 'Did I say that?'
What an idiot.
But to be fair they probably just found it easier to make a game online playable on the Xbox 360 with Xbox Live they are the developer so its up to them what they do I guess.
However if they are indeed perfectionists then why not bring out a patch to make the PS3 one online playable?
The only thing putting me off getting the PS3 version was the fact it had no online play.
So all in all if they had took a bit longer they would have gotten my money and many other peoples as well.