Sega have finally set the release date of Virtua Fighter 5 for the Xbox 360. Fans of the series will get their first 360-compatible fix on October 30.

What’s interesting is that so many are touting online play over Xbox Live as an exciting feature, when a vast majority of competitive players will not be playing online. You see, VF5 is so technical that certain moves can be countered for periods as minute as a single frame of animation. This means under even perfect-world network conditions, it becomes impossible to (intentionally) counter these moves - and you can imagine how this translates to playing against little Jimmy, who is hosting games on a 128kbit upstream with his sister downloading off Limewire in the room over.

Of course, the vocal minority who couldn’t fathom this unfortunate truth-nugget proceeded to piss and moan so much that Sega caved, and added the Xbox Live functionality anyway. Nice one, people!

via Siliconera

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