According to Yu Suzuki, if he ever created a
Virtua Fighter 6 he would want to simplify and improve the controls and interfaces further. According to Yu Suzuki, he prefers the players to be focused on tactics instead of mastering inputs. Yu thinks this would broaden the user base. This is something that a lot of other game studios are playing with now and has the community mixed.
For example Riot Games is working on a fighting game with no inputs, but uses ‘cool down’ mechanics for powerful moves.
Harada also complained about how he gets consistent request from fighting game fans on twitter (hey, that’s us) about a new
Virtua Fighter because SEGA never attends these fighting game events ; so all fans seem to direct their request to him. He even mentioned that a lot of fans are requesting a
Tekken x Virtua Fighter crossover, if that’s what it takes to get a new
Virtua Fighter.
During the interview Harada also brings up something
he talked on twitter about before, a deal Namco had floating around at management level where Namco would have added
Virtua Fighter characters into a potential
Dreamcast Tekken title, which never happened.
At the end of the interview, the interviewer ask Yu Suzuki and Katsuhiro Harada to go to SEGA and request they both make
Virtua Fighter 6, with Yu Suzuki responding,
“If you need me, just say the word.”