Hey All, I'm told this was a video sega showed to internal dudes showing how key sega franchises will look on next generation hardware... aparently these are screens of 360 games in the works. If anyone else has any better quality screens, that would be awesome! )
Perhaps this is the video it came from. This is the best version I've seen so far of the Sega Next-gen Presentation. It still leaves much to be desired, like a direct-feed, but it's meh.
the video was so totally awsome.. with dolby surround and even de ground was shaking becouse of the ultra subwoofer they had placed! almost forgot to mention you were seated in an nice leather relax sofa-like chair ... ah men I wanna go back and see the video again and again (especially the Sonic video was impressie... but why do you think these are 360 images? they are next gen so could also be PS3)
Err, no. They were running on a modified dual core G5 system, real-time, but not for Xbox 360 per se.
They have worked on the arcade version together with a few top VF players for quite some time now, I just wonder how long the period between the arcade release and console release will last.
Break is a big word, but they would gain a lot more marketshare by this move. Unless VF5 is heading to PS3 as well...
They do this with every VF release. Even Yu himself said, "the only way to make a game like VF work is to have really high level players play it over and over again and give feedback." AFAIK, Chibita has shown off just about every VF release since 3 at it's unveiling. I know for a fact he was at Evo and FT. (Yes, I've spent a few thousand dollars on VF over the years... no joke). I'm shocked they've announced next-gen console version already. It's definitely a new move. If it comes out on console first, you can chalk up another point on the "dumb shit moves by Sega" list as western gamers have proven they'd much rather spend $50 on a fighting game with a much inferior system but with girls with huge tits and/or skimpy outfits. Even Tekken, while respectable, pales in comparison in terms of 'depth of system', although admitedly I've done no research on T5.
the word now is, that some of these games (probably Virtua Fighter and House of the Dead) were running on Sega's new high-end PowerVR Series 5-based arcade board, codenamed Lindbergh. although the Lingbergh name has not been confirmed, a new highend PowerVR board was confirmed in a press release back in March 2004. And recently, PowerVR has announced the 'Eurasia' family of PowerVR chips, which is heavily based on their work from Series 5. (brief PowerVR background) note that: Dreamcast, NAOMI and the powerful T&L augmented NAOMI 2 boards are all based on PowerVR Series 2: graphics technology that was developed from 1995 to 1997. -- all of the KYRO chips are Series 3. the Series 4 was cancelled. the mobile PowerVR MBX family is based on elements from both Series3 and the cancelled Series4. -- and now a new generation of PowerVR chips are coming. the Eurasia family and the PowerVR chip(s) inside the new Sega board, both of these are based on Series 5. finally, Series 6 is in development also but probably wont be seen for years. http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=49649 the other games: Sonic, AfterBurner and Chrome Hounds, were probably running on Xbox 360 Alpha kits, which use dual G5 PowerPC CPUs and an older generation of ATI graphics card, either r350-based Radeon 9800 Pro (circa 2003) or r420-based Radeon X800 XT (circa 2004), not the final Xbox 360 GPU which is R500 aka Xenos.
I emailed an old VF4 friend of mine in Tokyo back like 2 months ago. He finally decided to reply to me. So as one would suspect, it seems arcade first. I'll still lay down money that VF5 won't be online in console form either, and if it is, it will suck cock. The internet is just not fast enough to handle it yet.
Well, the continuous download speed might be sufficient (hell yeah I'd say), but for this type of game, latency is more important, and that can still be pretty shitty (i.e. how long it takes for a small bit of data to get from point A to point B, taking routing etc. into account)
