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It's been almost 1 year since Sega announced Final Showdown for consoles, and now we finally have a release date! The game is set for release on June 5th on PlayStation Network and June 6th on Xbox Live!

Update #1: Check out the new VF5:FS trailer!
Reignite Your Inner Fighter

Update #2: Here are the contents of the 2 character DLC packages!
Item Set #1: Akira, Sarah, Kage, Wolf, Lion, Aoi, Brad, El Blaze, Jean

Item Set #2: Pai, Lau, Jacky, Jeffry, Shun, Lei, Vanessa, Goh, Eileen, Taka

Update #3: Check VF5FS Console FAQ for answers to majority of questions.

Read the press below for more details!

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...

This coming Saturday, the 19th of May 2012, will see the much anticipated pre-launch party for the home console release of Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown.

Those unable to attend the invite-only event have an opportunity to be a part of this historic occasion. VFDC will be looking to record and capture as much of this event, but in order to make it as memorable and fun as possible, we need your help!

To kick things off I'll be looking to conduct interviews with Fuudo, Chibita and any SEGA staff present.

What would you like to ask them?

» VFDC Attendee List
» VF5FS Pre-Launch Party Trailer
» Fuudo Promo Interview
» Chibita Promo Interview

The sixth Tokai Bay Area Cup team tournament starts on May 12th, 2012 at 8 PM JST. The event will likely be streamed on Chinobrad's Ustream Channel. Team Family Gyouza for 3 (ファミリー餃å­3人å‰) [Mukku (TA) / Keisuta (SH) / Kanzen Nitaku (WO)] remains the dominant team with all three members' respective 2012 Pre Beat-Tribe Cup single character teams reaching the Final Tournament Stage.

The Bay Area Cups 3on3 tournaments are unique in that teams made at the beginning of the season remains the same at the end of the season. For past tournament summaries and other information, please check the Virtua Fighter Relationship 2011-2012 Season thread. The second post in the thread have a list of teams and team members participating in the Bay Area Cups (not comprehensive).

Update May, 12th: Archive of the Tokai Bay Area Cup event. Check posts within this topic for summary and results.

Tokai Bay Area Cup Vo.6 Tournament
Tokai Vol. 6 Gods of Thunder Ranking Battle
Tokai Vol. 6 Post Tournament Matches

The Shadowloo Showdown 2012 Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown tournament is this weekend! It is expected Exhibition and the Top 8 will be streamed on Shadowloo HQ twitch channel on May 6th starting ~ 10 AM. The tournament portion will be during the 12:30-4 PM AEST Block Time (Shared with Soul Calibur V and Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition).

For additional information about this international event (Ryan Hart and Fuudo flying out of country to participate in the VF5FS Tourney) check out the Previous News Headline and the Events and Tournament Thread.

This is the first time VF5FS will be playable in Australia. Support your fellow VFDCers and watch the stream! Event Info and Live Brackets Link for up-to-date information on the event.

Update: Archive of the event - Exhibition Matches / Top 8 (1h39m mark)

Why do people enjoy fighting games? Do you believe the fighting genre is at risk of imploding? Why do fighting games need to evolve?

Those are some of the questions that Gamespot's Editor Maxwell McGee asked various people within the Fighting Game genre to address in his Fighting Game Symposium article series. This includes Patrick Riley, Director of International Product Development, SEGA (Syzygy on VFDC, left) as he answered these questions relative to the Virtua Fighter franchise. Other people that were asked these same questions include Iplaywinner's Haunts, Ultrachen TV's James Chen, and many more!

So check out their replies! Do you agree with what they say?

Vanessa fans and players, here is something special for you! This weekend will start with a Vanessa Off event organized by ペコラ (Pekora). The event features a singles tournament, HC team tournament, and exhibition matches of players only using Vanessa (38 players pre-registered).

The Vanessa Off event is expected to start 1 PM JST on May 4. This event is expected to be streamed on Nistel Jacky's Channel. For anybody planning to play Vanessa in VF5FS, this event will likely be highly beneficial to you!

May 5th Update: Links to the archive of the event: Singles Tournament / 3on3 Team Tournament

On May 5th, starting approximately 11 AM JST - VFR will hold its popular Pre Beat Tribe Cup Tournament. This is a 5on5 Seed Ranking Team Tournament with one major rule exception: all five members of a team can use the same character! This event is expected to be streamed on VFRTV.

So far, there are 66 teams (330 players) registered for this event. 47 of those teams consist of the same character. All 19 characters have at least one team representing them! The day long event will be divided into Qualifiers (Early/Late),　Wildcard, Playoffs, and Final Tournament Stage.

For past tournament summaries and other information, please check the Virtua Fighter Relationship 2011-2012 Season thread.

Update: Archive of portions of the event are posted below. Check the above link or following posts for more information.
Prelim - Part 1 / Prelim - Part 2 / Wildcard and Playoff / Final Tournament

The big announcement promised by Frank Hom has been finally revealed via Shoryuken! VF5FS is coming to this year's EVO!

For those interested in attending Evo, please check the
VF5FS at Evo 2012: Event Details and Trip Planning for the most up-to-date information.

While this is wonderful news, we still don't know the exact date of when the console version of the game is being released! For more information on what is known about the console version, please check out the VF5: Final Showdown Console FAQ.

The third out of five VF5FS tournaments to be held at San Francisco's Southtown Arcade (STA) will be streamed on Iplaywinner, April 27, 2012. The tournament and stream is expected to start around 7 PM PST.

In this third tournament, the top three will receive autographed VF5FS cards from AM2! For more details to this series of events, please check the South Town Arcade VF5FS Tournament Series Thread. According to Frank, expect big announcement on Monday pertaining to the console version.

Challonge Bracket Part 1 / Part 2

Thanks to SEGA, a Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown tournament will be held as part of Shadowloo Showdown 2012 on May 5 and 6, 2012!

This is a major international tournament with many guest pro players across all games. For Virtua Fighter two prominent Japanese names will be attending, Fuudo and Itazan (pictured), and are revealed in the latest trailer below!

Australia's best will all be at Shadowloo Showdown to face the challenge of a host of international talent. VFDC's own webmaster and Battle Arena Melbourne 2009-10 Champ Myke will be attending, as will last year's winner AlexMD.

Are you ready for the showdown?

» SS2K12: April Player Reveal Trailer
» VF5:FS @ SHADOWLOO SHOWDOWN May 4-5 tournament info thread

Special thanks to Berzerk for organising!