Virtua Fighter is more of an example of a good game that got overshadowed. It was the pioneer in 3-D fighting and insanely popular in Japan. The original Tekken was largely a pale imitation. Virtua Fighter 2 > Tekken 2, even though the latter had definitely improved. Tekken 3 is where Tekken started to pull ahead, mostly because Sega never did release a Saturn version of VF3 and the late port for Dreancasr got overshadowed by SoulCalibur. VF got hamstrung by being tied to Sega hardware especially since the Saturn failed in the West. Tekken got a big boost by being the PlayStation’s signature fighting series.
It’s too bad Sega didn’t capitalize more on its PlayStation debut. Tekken 4 was not a good game, while Virtua Fighter 4 was amazing. In a just world, Tekken should have been the also-ran.
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