Sega offers a quick glimpse at the new Virtua Fighter, but it’s ‘not actual gameplay’

Sega has shown off another look at the next Virtua Fighter during CES.

The short clip, which can be viewed below, was debuted during Nvidia‘s CES presentation to highlight the progress from the first GPUs which debut in 1999, till now.

The footage includes a disclaimer that it is “pre-development in-engine footage,” and “not actual gameplay.”

The game is in development from Like A Dragon studio Ryu Ga Gotoku and was announced during The Game Awards last year.

Both characters in the clip were Akira, Virtua Fighter’s mascot. The character looks rather different from his traditional white gi and blackbelt. It’s unclear how much of both this early tease, and the tease from The Game Awards will manifest in the final game.

Sega’s head of transmedia first told VGC last year that a new Virtua Fighter game was in the works. In an interview discussing a range of topics, Justin Scarpone mentioned Virtua Fighter among a list of legacy Sega games getting modern releases.

“We have a suite of titles in development right now that fall into that legacy bucket, which we announced last year at The Game Awards – Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, Shinobi, and we have another Virtua Fighter being developed,” Scarpone told us.

Sega then announced in late November that a remaster of Virtua Fighter 5 is coming to Steam, leading some to believe Scarpone was referring to that.