"If we're being serious, Virtua Fighter is an IP that's carved into Sega's history so we have no intention of doing this half-heartedly," Masayoshi Yokoyama
told Famitsu.
Masayoshi Yokoyama is the head of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the group behind the Like a Dragon / Yakuza games, who's part of the development team working on the new Virtua Fighter title.
"If it starts feeling like it won't be good enough, we're just going to stop the project midway through. That's how serious we are about it," said Yokoyama.
"If Yokoyama decides that it's stopping, it really does stop just like that, so I'm putting a lot of energy in to make sure that doesn't happen," said Riichirou Yamada, who's serving as the producer on the new Virtua Fighter project.
"Also, 'we're not creating games from games'... What I mean by that is, we're very serious about making something that hasn't been made before. That's exactly how Yu Suzuki-san was too," said Yamada