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Virtua Tennis 4, known as Power Smash 4 (パワースマッシュ4) in Japan, is a sports game developed and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii and Windows PC. There is also an arcade version, which runs on Sega RingEdge.
It is a sequel to Virtua Tennis 3, and is the first "main" game in the series to be released directly to home consoles, with the arcade release following later.
Contents
Gameplay
The game makes use of each console's respective motion peripherals (PlayStation Move, Kinect and Wii MotionPlus).
Achievements
- Main article: Virtua Tennis 4/Achievements.
History
Legacy
A PlayStation Vita version titled Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition was released in late 2011 in Japan, and 2012 internationally.
On 14 April 2015, Sega announced that Virtua Tennis 4 would be removed from Steam on 23 April 2015 and put the game on sale.
Versions
Localised names
Language | Localised Name | English Translation |
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English | Virtua Tennis 4 | Virtua Tennis 4 |
English (US) | Virtua Tennis 4 | Virtua Tennis 4 |
Japanese | パワースマッシュ4 | Power Smash 4 |
Korean | 버추어 테니스 4 | Virtua Tennis 4 |
Downloadable content
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Virtua TennisTM 4 – Xbox 360 Trailer
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Production credits
- Creative Producer: Mie Kumagai
- Assistant Producer: Kazuko Noguchi
- Creative Director: Shoichiro Kanazawa
- Lead Game Designer: Norio Furuchi
- Game Designers: Nobuyuki Yamashita, Masaru Korosawa, Yoshinori Takeno, Shigeharu Nagakami
- Lead Programmer: Kenji Tohma
- Programmers: Mitsuharu Saikawa, Tsuyoshi Matsuda, Takeshi Numazawa, Housei Ueda, Takashi Hirayama, Hiroshi Suzuki
- Lead Artist: Michinari Terada
- Animators: Kenji Shimizu, Kazuyuki Watanabe, Takanori Daitoh
- Background Artists: Takeo Iwase, Yoshihiko Nakagawa, Masaki Miyashita, Yoshikazu Endo, Daisuke Ogawa
- Character Artists: Takeshi Sano, Hiroshi Yoshida, Nobukazu Naruke, Yasuhiro Mori, Katsuhiko Omori, Takashi Ito, Toshihiro Ando
- Front-End Artists: Norio Satomi, Kazuma Itoh, Rieko Yoshida, Yasushi Mihori, Kenta Akagi, Yusuke Sakai
- Sound Artists: Tatsutoshi Narita, Shinichi Goto, Seiichi Hamada, Fumio Ito, Keisuke Tsukahara, Makito Nomiya, Megumi Takano, Junpei Mishima, Yasuyuki Nagata, Kazuki Takagi, Naoyuki Machida, Mieko Isa, Tomoya Koga, Aimee Black
- MotionCapture Actors: Hiroki Kondo, Junri Namigata, Kento Takaguchi, Maki Arai, Masatoshi Miyazaki, Ryota Hisamatsu, Toshiharo Kato, Yuya Kibi
- Sega of China Art Team: Takahiro Kudo, Wei Zhang, Xin Tang, Jian Jin, Zhiyin Dong, Zongwei Zheng, Rulming Tao
- CEO: Mike Hayes
- Senior Vice President - Production: Gary Dunn
- Head of Studio - Japanese IP: Kuniyo Matsumoto
- Producer: Jun Yoshino
- Assistant Producer: Bobby Simpson
- Director of European Marketing: Gary Knight
- Head of Marketing Core and Sport: Matt Eyre
- Brand Manager: David Kempshall
- Head of European PR: Lynn Daniel
- European PR Executive: Luisa Mari
- Head of Creative Services: Alison Peat
- Traffic Coordinator, Creative Services: Jeff Webber
- Creative Services: Morgan Gibbons, Arnould Tempelaere, Ranjan Vekaria, Ed Bostock, Akane Hiraoka, Elliot Kidner
- Director of Business Planning and Operations: Yusuke Suai
- Purchasing Manager: Caroline van Venrooji
- Production Manager: Natalie Forsyth
- Online Marketing Manager: Mike Evans
- Online Marketing Executives: Charlotte Mills
- Head of Online Services: Adam Lance
- Community Manager: Kevin Eva
- Head of Legal & Business Affairs: Nicky Ormrod
- Legal Council: Polly Bennett
- Legal Executive: Saad Choudri
- Licensing Manager: Nivine Emeran
- Head of Development Services: Mark Le Brenton
- Localisation Manager: Marta Lois González
- Localisation Project Manager: Giuseppe Rizzo
- Assistant Localisation Project Managers: Antonella Marras, Luis J. Paredes
- Translators: Jesús Álvarez, Sebastián Saiguero, Tatjana Nath, Daniela Kaynert, Nicole Thomer, Antonio Catanese, Giuseppe Rosa, Carole Kunzelmann, Sophie Paleologos, Ronan Salon
- Mastering Equipment and Submissions Manager: Dave Pither
- Mastering Engineers: Phil Adams
- Project Lead: Luke Tarasek
- Compliance Supervisor: Darren Wall
- Compliance Coordinators: Mohammed Ajaib, Shiva allari, Chris Barnett
- Compliance Senior Testers: Arron Caney, Lawrence Donohue, Matthew Pearson
- Compliance Testers: Anthony Pillips, Martin Walker
- Language QA Supervisor: Alessandro Irranca
- Language Team Lead: Sergio Borelli
- Language Assistant Team Leads: Lorenzo De Gregori, Huan Langa
- Language Senior Testers: Alan Desole, Yann-Eric D'Addario
- Language Testers: Michele Tenace, Elfreide Trillan, Alberto Barajas, Augustin Ferrari, Davide Mandrini, Ricardo Valle, Omar Perez
- Functionality Supervisor: Julie Metior
- Functionality Project Monitors: Colin Perman, Tristan Carree
- Functionality Senior Testers: Robert Thompson, Sanjay Jagmohan
- Functionality Testers: Stacey Lovage, Lynne Tripp, Chris Evans, John Robertson, Rachel Wu, Chris Davidson, Adam Hayward, Bryn Richardson
- CEO: Mike Hayes
- COO & President: Masanao Maeda
- Senior VP of Development: Bret Berry
- Development Director: Todd Hartwig
- Senior Producer: Patrick Riley
- Associate Producer: Omar Woodley
- Creative Director: Ethan Einhorn
- Director of Technology: Jez Sherlock
- Development Operations Director: John Merlino
- VP of Business Planning: Rob Lightner
- VP of Marketing and Sales: Alan Pritchard
- Senior Director of Marketing: Darren Williams
- Senior Publishing Manager: Katrin Darolie
- Senior Brand Manager: Erica Mason
- Brand Manager: Dan Gallardo
- Sr. Public Relations Manager: Kerstin Mueller
- Public Relations Manager: Fabian Doehla
- Creative Services Director: Jen Groeling
- Production Manager: Heather Lucchetti
- Media and Events Manager: Terri Higgins
- 1st Party Manager: Sarah Elliot
- Senior Director of Sales: Keith Gerhardt
- QA Manager: Mark Cartwright
- QA Supervisors: Shawn Dobbins, Demetrius Griffin
- SEGA Standards Supervisor: Stephen Akana
- Mastering Supervisor: Rey Buzon
- Mastering Lab Technician: Chris Rilles
- Hardware Specialist: Matt Ellison
- Executive Producer: Okitane Usui
- Chief Producer: Hiroshi Kataoka
- Project Manager: Yusuke Asano
- Promotion: Takafumi Ueoro, Daisuke Sekine
- Publicity: Yasushi Nagumo, Masaya Santo
- Sales & Planning: Toru Yasuda, Nobuhiro Tanaka
- Licensing: Keisuke Nagai, Aya Muramatsu
- Localization Support: Yuka Yoshida, Emi Yamane, Tatsuya Shikata
- Product Test: Koji Nagata, Hitoshi Abe, Hiromi Myama, Ryoichi Shibuya, Toshiaki Matsuda, Keime Sasaki, Tao Tanigueni, Daisuke Miyamoto
- QA: Seiji Hasegawa, Yuji Nakamura
- Software Package & Software Manual Production: Yoshihiro Sakuta, Yoichi Takahashi, Kazuaki Jikuhara, Colin Restall, Hajime Ishinooda, Mikiko Ohbe
- MotionCapture Actors Coordinate: Wataru Koga
- MotionCapture Actors: Keiichi Wada, Yuuko Kawana
- Director: Motohiro Shirakawa
- CG Designer: Kazutaka Ikeda
- Lead Artists: Tsubasa Nakai
- Artists: Kengo Nukizono, Wataru Kitamura, Tomohiro Hanawa
- Tool Development: Takamasa Matsunari
- Project Manager: Akira Ito
- Producer: Masahito Imamura
Digital manuals
Magazine articles
- Main article: Virtua Tennis 4/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Artwork
Photo gallery
Physical scans
PlayStation 3 version
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Xbox 360 version
Xbox 360, AS† |
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Xbox 360, SE/DK/NO/FI |
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Wii version
Wii, EX† |
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PC version
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External links
- Sega of Japan catalogue pages (Japanese): PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
- Official website on Sega.com
- Official website on Sega.jp (Japanese)
- Nintendo catalogue pages: US
- Virtua Tennis 4 on Steam (offline)
- Virtua Tennis 4 on PlayStation.com: JP, JP (Sega the Best), US, UK, KR
- Virtua Tennis 4 on Xbox Marketplace: US, UK, AU (offline)
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 File:VT4 Release Date Announcement - FINAL.pdf
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 http://blogs.sega.com/2011/05/13/virtua-tennis-4-launch-trailer/ (Wayback Machine: 2016-06-16 21:25)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.jp.playstation.com:80/software/title/bljm60356.html (Wayback Machine: 2011-06-03 20:29)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.jp.playstation.com:80/software/title/bljm60551.html (Wayback Machine: 2012-11-21 01:35)
- ↑ http://www.playstation.co.kr/game/2322 (archive.today)
- ↑ http://www.playstation.co.kr/news/19313 (Wayback Machine: 2017-04-23 01:53)
- ↑ http://www.softclub.ru/games/ps3/9145-virtua-tennis-4 (archive.today)
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 http://sega.jp/x/powsma4/ (Wayback Machine: 2014-08-03 23:22)
- ↑ http://www.softclub.ru/games/xbox-360/9146-virtua-tennis-4 (archive.today)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Xbox LIVE Marketplace (fr-FR; Virtua-Tennis-4/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80253450857) (Wayback Machine: 2012-12-07 11:06)
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Xbox LIVE Marketplace (de-DE; Virtua-Tennis-4/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80253450857) (Wayback Machine: 2012-12-11 08:22)
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Xbox LIVE Marketplace (en-US; Virtua-Tennis-4/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80253450857) (Wayback Machine: 2012-12-07 11:28)
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Xbox LIVE Marketplace (en-GB; Virtua-Tennis-4/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80253450857) (Wayback Machine: 2014-06-30 20:35)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Xbox LIVE Marketplace (en-AU; Virtua-Tennis-4/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80253450857) (Wayback Machine: 2015-02-28 08:25)
- ↑ http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/Lc4PieLYTA9eWKJNWES0XG_LF3y9h-AN (Wayback Machine: 2013-01-19 08:44)
- ↑ https://www.gry-online.pl/gry/virtua-tennis-4/zf645 (Wayback Machine: 2020-01-25 01:07)
- ↑ http://www.softclub.ru/games/pc/9148-virtua-tennis-4 (Wayback Machine: 2017-04-23 10:17)
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 http://store.steampowered.com:80/app/71390 (Wayback Machine: 2011-06-27 04:45)
Games in the Virtua Tennis Series | |
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Virtua Tennis (1999) | Virtua Tennis 2 (2001) | Virtua Tennis 3 (2006) | Virtua Tennis 4 (2011) | |
Virtua Tennis (2000) | Virtua Tennis 2 (2001) | |
Virtua Tennis (2002) | Virtua Tennis 3 (2007) | Virtua Tennis 2009 (2009) | Virtua Tennis 4 (2011) | |
Virtua Tennis 2 (2002) | |
Virtua Tennis (2002) | |
Virtua Tennis (2003) | |
Virtua Tennis: World Tour (2005) | Virtua Tennis 3 (2007) | |
Virtua Tennis 3 (2007) | Virtua Tennis 2009 (2009) | Virtua Tennis 4 (2011) | |
Virtua Tennis 2009 (2009) | Virtua Tennis 4 (2011) | |
Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour Edition (2011) | |
Virtua Tennis Challenge (2012) | Virtua Tennis Challenge Free (2012) | |
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Power Smash Taikenban (20xx) | Power Smash 2 Taikenban (20xx) |
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