Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and SEGA have released a new video of Virtua Fighter, but it’s worth reading between the lines.

The video of the game is a pre-development concept footage. So it’s created with the game’s engine, not containing actual actual gameplay. For this reason, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has also emphasized that the gameplay and characters may differ from what you can see in the video embedded below. The title of the game hasn’t even been announced by the Japanese publisher yet, so it might be about as early in development as Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio’s other big project, Project Century.

Virtua Fighter has been around for over three decades. The first installment debuted in arcades in 1993. It made the jump to the SEGA Saturn in 1994 and the 32X in 1995. Virtua Fighter 2 hit the arcades in 1994, the Saturn in 1995, the Mega Drive/Genesis in 1996, and the PC in 1997. The third main episode came in 1996 (to arcades; followed by Virtua Fighter 3tb in 1997, and it also appeared on the Dreamcast in 1998). Virtua Fighter 4 came with several updates, but first hit arcades in 2001, and then PlayStation 2 in 2002. Virtua Fighter 5 came to arcades in 2006, and then to PlayStation 3 in 2007. There have been several versions, but we’ll only mention the most recent, Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown, which runs on the Dragon Engine from the Yakuza/Like a Dragon games. It will be released on PlayStation 4 in 2021.

Anyway, it was about time for a new episode, while there’s a new release of Virtua Fighter 5 coming (again), as Virtua Fighter 5: R.E.V.O. will be released on Steam on January 28th. Since the game hasn’t been available on PC yet, SEGA will at least make up for it.

As for the new Virtua Fighter, we don’t even know what it’ll be avalilable on…

Source: Gematsu