NVIDIA and SEGA celebrated their technology partnership of more than 30 years with a special event in Tokyo. Virtua Fighter Crossroads new SEGA games, especially NVIDIA RTX Spark announced that they will move it to their platform. The two companies held the meeting on July 15 at GiGO Akihabara Building 3, which operates on the site of the former SEGA Akihabara Arcade. This agreement will bring together SEGA’s classic game series with NVIDIA’s new Windows computer platform, which combines artificial intelligence, ray tracing and DLSS technologies.
NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang shared the stage with SEGA CEO Haruki Satomi and SEGA COO Shuji Utsumi at the event. Virtua Fighter Yu Suzuki, the creator of the series, and former SEGA President Shoichiro Irimajiri also attended the meeting to talk about the history of the two companies. NVIDIA specifically chose the location in Akihabara because this building has served as one of the key hubs representing SEGA’s arcade culture over the years. In this way, the companies both referred to their common history and started the new gaming era they prepared for Windows computers at the same point.
The relationship between NVIDIA and SEGA dates back to the mid-1990s. Two companies using NV1, one of NVIDIA’s first graphics processors Virtua Fighter Worked with the PC version. While NVIDIA was trying to enter the three-dimensional graphics market with NV1, SEGA transferred the experience it gained in arcade systems to the PC side. According to NVIDIA’s statement, this project was one of the most important works of the company’s first period when it developed graphics technologies for game consoles and arcade machines.
The support that SEGA provided to NVIDIA at that time was not limited to game development only. SEGA management of the period contributed to the development of the company’s next graphics processors. $5 million made an investment. NVIDIA later strengthened its position in the PC graphics market with products such as the RIVA 128 and the GeForce 256, introduced in 1999. Today’s RTX Spark collaboration is therefore more than an ordinary game compatibility announcement, but rather represents a new chapter in the technical relationship that the two companies started nearly 30 years ago.
RTX Spark brings together gaming and artificial intelligence in the same system
NVIDIA describes RTX Spark as a new super chip it has developed for thin Windows laptops and small desktop systems. The platform brings together NVIDIA technologies such as CUDA, RTX, DLSS, Reflex, G-SYNC, TensorRT and OptiX in a single architecture. The company is not only focusing on gaming performance, but also aims to use the same hardware for local AI models, content creation tools and personal AI assistants. SEGA games will also benefit from ray tracing, DLSS and artificial intelligence-supported image processing features.
The first announced game of the collaboration Virtua Fighter Crossroads happened. SEGA and developer RGG Studio announced the new game of the series in 2027 He plans to bring him together with the players. SEGA’s official page describes the game as a new city, a new story and a completely renewed version. Virtua Fighter defines it as experience. The companies have not yet shared details about the resolution, frame rate, ray tracing settings or DLSS profile of the RTX Spark version.
NVIDIA’s statement only Virtua Fighter Crossroads He was not satisfied with this and stated that other SEGA games will also gain RTX Spark support in the future. However, at this stage, the companies have not given a specific game name for series such as Sonic, Persona, Like a Dragon or Total War. Therefore, the scope of the agreement explained Virtua Fighter Crossroads It should be evaluated limited to support and future SEGA productions. We will see the real gaming performance of RTX Spark more clearly when manufacturers put the final computers on sale and independent tests begin.
NVIDIA and SEGA in the past NV1 and first Virtua Fighter It rekindles the relationship they established through the PC version with RTX Spark. While SEGA is preparing its new games for Windows’ new generation Arm-based computers, NVIDIA is positioning RTX Spark as not only an artificial intelligence computer but also a powerful gaming platform. Virtua Fighter Crossroadswill be the first major playtest of this strategy. The game’s release in 2027 will also show what kind of experience RTX Spark systems will offer against traditional GeForce computers.
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