Sega has formally introduced {that a} new Virtua Fighter recreation is within the works as a part of the corporate’s drive to revive a few of its traditional franchises.
Chatting with VGC, Sega transmedia head Justin Scarpone revealed that alongside revivals of franchises like Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, and Shinobi, which have been introduced throughout final 12 months’s Sport Awards, a brand new Virtua Fighter recreation can also be in growth, though Scarpone stopped wanting revealing additional particulars.
Scarpone additionally says that “in sure situations”, Sega has transmedia initiatives in growth alongside its video games, pointing to the recently-revealed Shinobi film for instance, though it isn’t clear whether or not Virtua Fighter can also be a part of that initiative.
Sega’s Virtua Fighter revival is a part of a company-wide initiative on Sega’s half to emphasise its traditional franchises, with a number of video games at the moment within the works based mostly on old-school Sega IPs.
These initiatives embody a reboot of Loopy Taxi, which Sega says can be an open-world MMO in distinction to the unique recreation’s traditional arcade strategy to gameplay, in addition to reworks of Golden Axe, Shinobi, Jet Set Radio, and Streets of Rage (within the latter case, a reboot distinct from 2020’s Streets of Rage 4).
We have no form of inclination concerning what precisely Sega is planning on doing with these franchises (past the Loopy Taxi reboot, in fact), however we’ll probably study extra within the coming months.
Elsewhere in current Sega information, the corporate achieved main success with Metaphor: ReFantazio, the JRPG developed by many members of the core inventive group behind the Persona franchise. The sport managed to promote 1,000,000 copies inside its first few hours on sale.
The gaming big has additionally loved current success because of the discharge of 3D platformer Sonic x Shadow Generations, which, very like the aforementioned JRPG, bought very strongly certainly on its launch day.
