More excuses from the VF5 team.

I never "loved" the Virtua Fighter series. Let me just get that out of the way. I have a handfull of fighting games I rather play.

I stated long ago that without online I wouldn't bother with VF5, before it was even on the way to the Xbox 360.

I have heard all the excuses, I know the Hardcore care about every last frame being perfect, I don't care. Sega is killing it's own franchise by caring too much about the HK players, or they are using the HK as an excuse to deliver an easier/cheaper product. So what if the Online isn't as perfect as the offline, does that stop the HK players from playing offline?

AM2: Our stance toward the online gameplay has not been changed from what it was before. VF5 runs at 60fps. It would be nice if there were an environment where we could communicate with no problem at all under this condition, but unfortunately, there are various barriers for the network gaming. We wish we had an Internet environment that would convince the players who develop frame-by-frame offense and defence. The Japanese advanced players play battles that can be determined within one frame! We were interested in dowloadable extra service and PlayStore, but we decided not to adopt them this time. Instead, we decided to include every possible item we can offer since we could secure sufficient space due to the introduction of Blu-ray Disc.

Sorry Sega, you fail again.

Source: Eurogamer