Virtua Fighter Coming To Xbox 360! News

SEGA of America and SEGA Europe have today confirmed that AM2's Virtua Fighter 5 will be released on Xbox 360 during 'late Summer 2007'.

The game, will be launch title for PlayStation3 in Europe in March 2007, is the first time that SEGA's iconic fighting franchise makes it onto an Xbox platform.

"Those people lucky enough to have already played Virtua Fighter(tm) 5 will know that it's laid the foundations to become the clear benchmark for fighting games on all next generation consoles", said Matt Woodley, Creative Director, SEGA Publishing Europe Ltd. "Bringing Virtua Fighter(tm) 5 to the Xbox 360(tm) offers us a platform with power to handle the astonishing visuals, the complex and varied fighting styles of all the customisable characters and will undoubtedly put Virtua Fighter(tm) 5 into the hands of a gaming audience craving for a highly polished and credible fighting game."

"The Virtua Fighter(tm) series from SEGA has one of the most prestigious histories in video games," said Jeff Bell, corporate vice president of global marketing for the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft. "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(tm) 5 and we can now proudly deliver this game with SEGA to Xbox 360 gamers around the world."

So how much schmoosing did former Sega of America head Peter Moore have to do to secure an Xbox 360 version? Or is more a case of expanding the title across multiple platforms to improve the chance of it becoming an even greater success?

We'll have more news shortly...