VF6 has no chance in the modern market if it tries the current business model. The characters are not known enough to milk for DLC, the story is almost non existant, and the fighting is on a very technical level without much flash.
There is a reason it lost out to tekken and soul calibur in the early 2000s 3d fighters. It has a fan base but unless they stick in the lane of the niche fighter the new game will follow all the modern trends and be dead on arrival.
VF4 evolution was the last time the game was good and its a shame. The tutorial was the best in the genre and the adventure mode was the sh*t that simulated working through the arcade scene.
Our main was Lion by the way, we could never make Akira work on a PS controller.