Virtua Fighter 5 FS release date for PSN & XBL announced! ...WITH DLC!

[Tizoc]

tl;dr Standard edition: $14.99/ £9.99/ AUD$18.25/ €12.99/1200 MS points
'Full edition': $35/European equivalent/2800 MS Points

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON - May 14, 2012 - SEGA® of America Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced that the console release date and retail price for Virtua Fighter™ 5 Final Showdown. The stand-alone downloadable 3D fighting game is set to make its console debut on June 5 for PlayStation®Network and June 6 for Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown will be priced at $14.99/ £9.99/ AUD$18.25/ €12.99 for PSN and 1,200 Microsoft Points for XBLA.

Character customization DLC packs will be available immediately upon launch for all 19 fighters, with each character customization pack costing $4.99/ £3.59/ AUD$6.25/ €4.49 for PSN and 400 Microsoft Points for XBLA, and will contain 600-950 customization items. Two additional customization packs, consisting of nine characters’ worth of DLC items and the other with 10 characters’ worth, will also be available at launch for $14.99/ £9.99/ AUD$18.25/ €12.99 each on PSN and 1,200 Microsoft Points each on XBLA.

Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown brings the latest arcade version of the Virtua Fighter 5 series to consoles worldwide, adding two new characters—Virtua Fighter 3 favorite Taka-Arashi and newcomer Jean Kujo—and dynamic and interactive fighting arenas. Console-only features include a robust and detailed Training Mode, eight player Online Room Match Mode, and a match record feature to replay, save, and upload fights. Developed by AM2, the console version of Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown will bring the storied franchise’s detailed balance, overhauled fighting mechanics, and extreme depth to new audiences and VF veterans alike in the acclaimed series’ best version yet.

Source:
http://www.psnstores.com/2012/05/virtua-fighter-5-final-showdown-challenges-psn-on-june-5/

Eh I'm getting it regardless, wonder how many GB it is?

[Don Vecta]

*throwing money to the screen like ninja stars*

[Shiki Orochinagi]

why will they want to sell DLC chars appart of the game, that DLC wasnt incluyed in the original game or what?

Im ok with the customization pack be DLC but i dont undesrtand the other DLC

[Tizoc]

why will they want to sell DLC chars appart of the game, that DLC wasnt incluyed in the original game or what?

Im ok with the customization pack be DLC but i dont undesrtand the other DLC

Weeeeeeeeeell if the game has in-game currency which you can use to buy the DLC content then I personally think that's OK. Would make the DLC mentioned in the announcement 'quick unlocks'.
Although all things considered, that's not a bad 'total' price for a non-disc release game.

[Ash Kaiser]

why will they want to sell DLC chars appart of the game, that DLC wasnt incluyed in the original game or what?

Im ok with the customization pack be DLC but i dont undesrtand the other DLC

None of the characters are DLC, nor will there be any DLC characters either. All 20 characters in game are there.

Only the customisation packs are DLC right now, which aren't included with the game, so hopefully there won't be any "DLC on disc" arguments.

And £10/$15 for the game is a steal. That's cheaper than the UMvC3 complete costume pack. And a whole lot better.

Weeeeeeeeeell if the game has in-game currency which you can use to buy the DLC content then I personally think that's OK. Would make the DLC mentioned in the announcement 'quick unlocks'.
Although all things considered, that's not a bad 'total' price for a non-disc release game.

The game has some items included with it, but the ones included in the DLC are proper DLC, so you can't unlock them. If you don't have them, and your opponent is using them, you won't see those items on your screen.

[Tizoc]

None of the characters are DLC, nor will there be any DLC characters either. All 20 characters in game are there.

Only the customisation packs are DLC right now, which aren't included with the game, so hopefully there won't be any "DLC on disc" arguments.

And £10/$15 for the game is a steal. That's cheaper than the UMvC3 complete costume pack. And a whole lot better.
The game has some items included with it, but the ones included in the DLC are proper DLC, so you can't unlock them. If you don't have them, and your opponent is using them, you won't see those items on your screen.

...but I will still see my opponent's character customized with the (DLC) items I don't have right? In that case wouldn't their data still be on my HDD?

[Mikel]

About time!

Hopefully the Full Edition will come with some interesting customization options.

[Ash Kaiser]

...but I will still see my opponent's character customized with the (DLC) items I don't have right? In that case wouldn't their data still be on my HDD?

No. As I said earlier, there are some items included with the game, but not all of them. If they're using the default items, you'll see them as they're on the HDD. If however they were to only download Kage's extra items and use them, and you were to only download Goh's and use them, then they wouldn't see your Goh customisation, and you wouldn't see their Kage one.

[Shiki Orochinagi]

No. As I said earlier, there are some items included with the game, but not all of them. If they're using the default items, you'll see them as they're on the HDD. If however they were to only download Kage's extra items and use them, and you were to only download Goh's and use them, then they wouldn't see your Goh customisation, and you wouldn't see their Kage one.

so you have to download the compatibility pack or something like that i suppose?

[Ash Kaiser]

so you have to download the compatibility pack or something like that i suppose?

Nope. No compatibility pack. You'll just see the blank costume that they're using (be it A, B, C, D, E or S) with whatever available items you may have.

[Tizoc]

Nope. No compatibility pack. You'll just see the blank costume that they're using (be it A, B, C, D, E or S) with whatever available items you may have.

...and how exactly do you know of this? That sounds like some inside intel...

[Ash Kaiser]

...and how exactly do you know of this? That sounds like some inside intel...

http://amcvt.sega.jp/vf5fs/

No insider information, just the official site that has this to say on customisations:

"※自分がそのキャラクターのアイテムデータを持っていないと、オンライン対戦で相手のカスタマイズを見ることはできません。"

Or in English:

"If you don't own a specific character item data, you will not be able to see the customisation during online play."

[hybridial]

It's common sense anyways, this is a downloadable game and there's certain guidelines on file size they have to take into account. I think without the custom packs they can keep the game's compressed download size to under 2GB which is the limit on XBLA and also ensures the base game isn't a ridiculously long download.

I believe that download games are allowed to be as big as they want to be if DLC is what puts them over the limit. It's the most workable option to make this a download game.

[SiddtheKidd]

I wonder how many Shenmue characters I'll be able to (loosely) replicate

[Eddie]

I wonder how many Shenmue characters I'll be able to (loosely) replicate

lol, funny thing I was making Goh's D Costume look like Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza on the vanilla VF5, only thing I was missing was the black hair similar to Kiryu's.