Tekken X Street Fighter could go next gen - Namco reconsidering "platform strategy"
Tekken X Street Fighter is, in theory, a current generation game. Except we've heard nary a word of it from either Capcom or Namco lately, and the current generation now resembles a crumbling cliff edge. Will this cross-over fighter make the leap to future platforms? According to producer Katsuhiro Harada, there's a distinct possibility it will. "We are changing and considering platform strategy," Harada told a fan on Twitter this week. "That's why we don't say anything." "Platform strategy" can mean many things of course - as Harada observed a day or so later, when asked about the industry's future, "a keyword called a platform will stop meaning hardware. A "platform" means a certain group or the name of service." Pinches of salt, and so forth.
Still that's then and we're talking about now. Namco put out a screenshot (left) of a Tekken-ified Ryu way back in 2010 - since then, Capcom has released Street Fighter X Tekken and approximately one gazillion point three DLC packs, many of which can be found on discs. It's possible the Tekken X Street Fighter team's silence stems from difficulties folding characters who traditionally battle on a 2D plane into a true 3D fighting game. Or maybe they think the fighting game's dead this gen, and are waiting for new hardware to show their quality.
Related: Harada doesn't like Capcom's approach to digital content. "Tekken has never had DLC before and charged for it," he told Edge last year. "This isn't really directed at Capcom, I have always said this, but I see the characters and their move sets as chess pieces - they are essential items necessary in the game and we would never sell any of those individually."
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Tekken X Street Fighter is, in theory, a current generation game. Except we've heard nary a word of it from either Capcom or Namco lately, and the current generation now resembles a crumbling cliff edge. Will this cross-over fighter make the leap to future platforms? According to producer Katsuhiro Harada, there's a distinct possibility it will. "We are changing and considering platform strategy," Harada told a fan on Twitter this week. "That's why we don't say anything." "Platform strategy" can mean many things of course - as Harada observed a day or so later, when asked about the industry's future, "a keyword called a platform will stop meaning hardware. A "platform" means a certain group or the name of service." Pinches of salt, and so forth.
Still that's then and we're talking about now. Namco put out a screenshot (left) of a Tekken-ified Ryu way back in 2010 - since then, Capcom has released Street Fighter X Tekken and approximately one gazillion point three DLC packs, many of which can be found on discs. It's possible the Tekken X Street Fighter team's silence stems from difficulties folding characters who traditionally battle on a 2D plane into a true 3D fighting game. Or maybe they think the fighting game's dead this gen, and are waiting for new hardware to show their quality.
Related: Harada doesn't like Capcom's approach to digital content. "Tekken has never had DLC before and charged for it," he told Edge last year. "This isn't really directed at Capcom, I have always said this, but I see the characters and their move sets as chess pieces - they are essential items necessary in the game and we would never sell any of those individually."
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