Rumor: Dead or Alive 5 heading to PS3

  • Posted January 8th, 2010 at 10:24 EDT by Mike Harradence
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The chaps over at the Official PlayStation Magazine UK (via CVG) are claiming that Dead or Alive 5 is currently in development for Sony’s PlayStation 3 console.

The Tecmo fighter has remained an Xbox exclusive since the days of Dead or Alive 3, and hasn’t graced a Sony platform in around eight years with the Sony-published Dead or Alive 2.

While the prospect of a DoA game coming to Sony’s black box is positively titillating (like what we did there?), nothing has been confirmed out of Tecmo HQ as of yet, so there is still a chance it may not happen at all. Nonetheless, previous rumors have suggested a multiplatform release.

Watch this space.

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  1. Wrath

    • 10:26am GMT - January 8th, 2010

    Ever since Itagaki left the team, Tecmo seems to have become way friendlier to PS3 owners, lol.

  2. Dragon969atpsu

    • 10:35am GMT - January 8th, 2010

    Let's hope the 360 doesn't get it a year before us, like with Ninja Gaiden 2

  3. lIIllIl

    • 10:46am GMT - January 8th, 2010

    FIRST!!!!!!!!!! what? i said stop complaining B!!!!!!!!!

  4. supamariobrotha

    • 11:25am GMT - January 8th, 2010

    i hope we do get it!! serves them xbots right for taking tekken 6 >: (

  5. mcav

    • 11:39am GMT - January 8th, 2010

    Good for fans of fighting games. 

     

  6. taurus82

    • 11:39am GMT - January 8th, 2010

    I've never been a fan of Virtua Fighter, I've pretty much given up on Tekken (after 5: DR), Soul Calibur (after 3), Street Fighter (after Capcom Vs SNK 2) and Mortal Kombat (after Shaolin Monks). So, it'll be nice to see a familiar face return to restore my faith in a genre I once called my favourite.

  7. PS3-The Ultimate Machine

    • 11:47am GMT - January 8th, 2010

    That'd be great if true,not gonna lose any sleep over it if it's not though.

  8. wetfbbqchiken

    • 11:48am GMT - January 8th, 2010

    omg!! wasn't expecting to see kasumi's face on psu! lol really hope its true... only fighting game i really love

    been playing the series since doa2 on dreamcast :D and its the only reason i played 360 so much (doa4 online only!!)

  9. discharge

    • 12:11pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    Having seen the last two on the other console I kinda hope when or if they bring it to the PS3 they bring in something very very new indeed, yeah sure we all like a bit of pointless breast bouncing in our games - but the DOA series hasn't really progressed imo that is. Maybe its time for games companies to really start doing xxx adult games, having the characters actually topless after ripping off their garments in a straight up perfect win, or breaking their arms so they cant use it in the next round and adding some FemDom action with full strapon action too........am I going to far with this?

  10. OneFlow

    • 12:28pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    DoA2 was fun, but I feel like the Beat 'em Up genre hasn't changed much since then, or actually since the first arcade beat em ups were released. Maybe Tecmo will do something right.

  11. wetfbbqchiken

    • 12:37pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    cant belive some of you saying its not changed... why would you change it if it works?

     

    FPS for example... its still in first person ... you still aim a gun and shoot people

    beat em ups you still beat em up :s

  12. discharge

    • 12:43pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    @ wetfbbqchiken - no one said change it - just add different harder features or make it well adult.

  13. wetfbbqchiken

    • 1:10pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    aye i supposed, abit of innovation couldn't hurt aslong as the core stays the same

     

    as for the adult thing, i dont see the big deal with doa people seem obbsessed with the girls having boobs lol yes you could set the bouncy-ness (not a word?) but its not like its a main feature of the game

    although i do think they kinda added to the "only preverts play dead or alive" sterotype with the volleyball games

  14. Windwalker

    • 2:18pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    Um, yay? 

  15. Loan

    • 2:33pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    DOA fails who cares

     

    bring DOA voilleyball

     

    LOL

  16. PSX_Legend

    • 2:45pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

     I hope its true.

  17. fffanatic1972

    • 3:14pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    Tecmo should have stayed with the colsole that made DoA a hit . I think that I'm not the only PS3 owner that thinks this way.

  18. Pledius

    • 3:23pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    hopefully we get it back so xbox users can't say we still got got "DOA hahahaha"

    though actual game quality wise I think DOA sucks. probably the worst fighting game I have ever played among the fighting games that became pretty famous

  19. TheTenth666

    • 3:34pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    WOW

    just WOW

    DOA2 is my favourite fighter game, the counter system was perfect and combos were not overpowered ; 3 and 4 didn't bring anything new and counter system wasn's good anymore

    just hope it's true

  20. iamspongebob

    • 4:36pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    REAL fighting game fans don't care about DOA. Keep this poop off of ps3 haha xD 

  21. !aaf

    • 5:18pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    Yep, I'm pretty much going to say this is true.

    The only thing stopping the big reaction is an official announcement.

  22. ShinMaruku

    • 5:44pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    I posted the scans on the forums. :E

  23. Ergunno

    • 6:17pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

     I want it to get on the PS3 solely because Xbox owners keep coming with we still got DoA even though it's just a fighting game with a majority of girls with big breasts in it. I honestly wouldn't care but at least that kind of compensates for Tekken 6 which the Xbox got.

    About DoA: I never really liked the game.

    About Tekken: I loved Tekken up until 3, then 4 was nice on the PS2, Tekken 5 was great, Tekken Tag Tournament was the BEST Tekken game to date and Tekken 6 really added a small amount of features. I don't like the new story thing, I guess it's ok but it's gameplay isn't good. I think the 1 with Jin was better in that prospect. And on the console version they actually did the stupidest thing I've ever seen. They put a restriction cap for offline ghost battles :S. Max to get to is 1st Dan, how do you get higher in Tekken 6? ONLINE, if you're going to do that make a good server so the hit doesn't arrive like at least a second after you press a button :S

    Back to DoA, I'll see, if DoA 5 is a huge improvement, unlike Tekken 6 was for 5, then I might consider getting it.

  24. wetfbbqchiken

    • 7:33pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    @20 epic fail

     

    what do real fighting game fans say about virtua fighter? (first 3 in particular)

  25. Flopping22

    • 8:03pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    It would be smart to make it multi platform if Tecmo wants money becauses it going to sell more on 360 by default any way, but then again sense Itagaki left his fans stop supporting Tecmo as every has saw on Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma sell below 38,000. None of the million Itagaki fans brough it just the ps3 owns who hasn't play it yet brough it, now that I think about it it was never Tecmo fans to begin with it was the real Ninja Team/Itagaki fans I mean what Tecmo makes ??? And they brough the **** out of DOA4 and Ninja Gaiden 2 when they first came out, they sold over million in the first week lol. 

  26. Doomsdae

    • 8:05pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    Wtf. @ 6 shoot yourself. you just bagged every credible fighting game. Anyway this is awesome news ive been a big fan of DOA and played the crap out of ulitmate & 4 hope this gets confirmed soon. and @ 1 ive noticed that too. i wonder y?

  27. iamspongebob

    • 8:19pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

     @24 

    The DOA series appeals to people who know nothing about fighting games and want something easy to play which reuqires little skill. So in other words the main audience. 

    VF appeals to people who are good at fighting games and want something technical that requires skill to play.

    I think of real fighting game fans as the hardcore audience, not the casual one. 

  28. Intervention

    • 9:10pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    Meh fighting games died in the States when arcades did. Even though a lot of them are good they hold no replay value beyond a month or two after launch. Not like the days of MK3 and Killer Instinct. It sure sucks how there are no arcades now, online gaming just doesn't cut it. Not to mention people can just screw around instead of fighting to make every cent of that quarter last.

  29. Muzikguy

    • 11:20pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    @28, oh the good old days! LOL I remember playing TONS of MKII and MK3 in the arcades. Then when Killer Instinct and MK came out for consoles, the tournaments! Yeah, the good old days

  30. iamspongebob

    • 11:26pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

     No arcades in the US? I'm sure theres quite a few and the Tekken scene is pretty lively there.

    It sucks bieng in the UK tho. Reall there is actually NO arcades, hard to find arcades that have tekken 6. And those are mainly in London costing a ton which i why i have to play T6 online -_- 

    Oh w8 going off-topic

  31. efs5030

    • 11:41pm GMT - January 8th, 2010

    lIIllIl you were third, back to grade school for you ;)

  32. crazychazza7

    • 2:08am GMT - January 9th, 2010

    Now only to wait for DOA xtreme 3...Oh right! Giddity Giddity! ¬.¬

  33. Shin Asura

    • 2:17am GMT - January 9th, 2010

    Horrible picture of Kasumi :/

  34. wetfbbqchiken

    • 2:55am GMT - January 9th, 2010

    @27 im gonna go ahead and assume you have never played dead or alive at all, at least not for long

     

    personally i started on vf1 in arcades vf2 on sega whatever then vf3 on dreamcast then doa2 came out on dreamcast and blew any vf game out of the water, seriously

    of course theres skill involved... how can you say there isn't? how is it less hardcore than any other fighting game? cmon!

  35. shmupmaniac

    • 3:51am GMT - January 9th, 2010

    Wonder if they'll have the option to choose the age of your character. 

    Age:  99

    Bouncy boobies ftw!  No seriously, this game is easy to learn and hard to master.  Those that think this game is easysauce should try playing against someone who really knows how to play it.  I'm looking forward to it on whatever console it comes out for.

     

  36. Ein_36

    • 7:30am GMT - January 9th, 2010

    It's gonna be great :D

  37. Ragnarok00_CODE

    • 5:04pm GMT - January 9th, 2010

    @4       Nice

    @17     Right on

    @18     Dude where are u leaving virtua fighter

    @24     Totallly

    @27     Dude DOA is kind easy going and all (not that i care about the game) but Virtua Fight that just sucks..... at ALL . i played that thing and i gotta say after all the fighting games i've played (that is Tekken,Soul Calibur,MK series until 4, All the Street Fight Series except the EX+ they suck in my opinion,KOF again except the kof12 thats just not kof at all, and a whole lot of others even DOA i have to say VIRTUA FIGHT PRETTY MUCH SUCKS LIKE A KING of the SUCKING KINGDOM

     

  38. sh3-rg

    • 5:25pm GMT - January 9th, 2010

    @9 no, I like your vision of the future of this aged & predictable genre. Fighting games are barely one step up from mindless fps bangbangs for me, only worth the price of admission in the company of friends & alcohol... think I'd prefer to play your version of the game behind the privacy of a locked door :P Seriously though, I'm up for a real dirty fighting game.

  39. PSU_fail

    • 2:31am GMT - January 11th, 2010

    Im not surprised, with Itagaki's arrogant jerk-ness gone, I honestly believe that Tecmo/Team Ninja wanted their titles on Sony platforms the whole time, but Itagaki was probably getting some MS green under the table.

  40. HITMAN_S_

    • 9:44pm GMT - January 11th, 2010

     GET IT FOR HEAVEN SAKE DEAD OR ALIVE A GREAT HYPER GAME SONY JUST ACTING DUMB NOW ANDTHEY STOLE TEKKEN AND SMACKDOWN VS RAW 

  41. FoolsFolly

    • 1:07am GMT - January 12th, 2010

    *yawn*

    Let me know when they announce Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball 3 for Ps3.

  42. NINE_INCH_NAILS

    • 6:13pm GMT - January 13th, 2010

    @24 & 37..

    DOA. takes more skill then any fighting game in the world!!!!!.. if you think not, i still have my copy of doa4 on 360 and i'll show you the difference, you wont be able to beat me one round, while in anyother game i can show you the difference in winning, DOA takes skill and is a game that made me buy a 360 and get into online gaming...Tekken 6 button mash, DOA use your brain.

  43. FYCN1982

    • 9:28pm GMT - January 20th, 2010

    DoA 5 Is PS3 Exclusive Now. I've Been Waiting For DoA Since The Creator Sued Microsoft Last Year. So Don't Hold Your Breath For DoA 5 To Be On The 360, Microsoft F***ed Themselves. The 360 Can Have That TEKKEN Garbage.

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