Tekken May Beat Virtua Fighter 5 To Market
Don’t look now but downloadable games might just have enabled a much fiercer rivalry between the top fighting games. Gamespot reports that Namco Bandai is readying a US version of the 800-Meg PlayStation 3 downloadable game Tekken Dark Resurrection game released in Japan for release later this month. Given that Virtua Fighter 5 is headed to the PS3 on February 20th, Namco Bandai might be trying to beat them to market in North America.
Tekken has a distinct advantage here of being able to digitally distribute their game instead of making people walk to a store to buy it on launch day or order it online. I’m guessing the localization of the Japanese game can be worked on until long after a disc has to be mastered to make it to manufacturing, and heck it could even be patched, although nobody is really sure yet what kinds of patching the PlayStation online service supports, if any.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have developers giving out fan-serving extras after the game is in stores to one-up each other? Extra fighters. New arenas. Leaderboard support for games. Mmmm, free stuff.
Via Gamespot.
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Whoa now, careful. Tekken 5 DR for PS3 is a PSP port. Virtua Fighter 5 is a brand new, title. No comparison.
Although I’d rather own a T5DR port, if I had to buy one of them.
Why I am I not surprised? You’d probably rather play Tekken Advance, removed from canon or not, you person-who-likes-Tekken-a-bunch, you!
Yes it is a port of the PSP game with one added fighter, but they may be aiming to beat VF5 to the PS3 market in the US.