Tekken X Street Fighter is no longer in development

[Dio Brando 5,810]

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/tekken-x-street-fighter-no-longer-in-active-develo/1100-6438976/?ftag=GSS-05-10aaa0b

 

 

Tekken X Street Fighter is no longer in active development, Bandai Namco has revealed. Speaking in an interview with GameSpot, Tekken game director Katsuhiro Harada indicated that releasing the crossover fighting game now could fracture the audiences of both franchises.

"When we develop fighting games, we try to keep the core community in mind as well as the wider audience that wants to play these games," he explained. "But currently the situation is with fighting games, you have Street Fighter V that just released--a lot of people are playing that fervently--and there's a large crowd out there waiting or Tekken 7."

He continued: "We don't want to split these communities, so a good window in which to release Tekken x Street Fighter is something that's become difficult recently. So it's on hold for the moment."

Tekken x Street Fighter was first announced during San Diego Comic-Con 2010 as a partnership between Bandai Namco and Capcom. As part of the arrangement, both companies would have access to each other's iconic cast of fighting game characters for use in two new fighting games.

Capcom's game Street Fighter x Tekken was released in 2012, but Bandai Namco had shown very little of its project in years following. Despite this, Harada previously maintained tthat he work was ongoing. In August 2013, he said it was "still in development" and explained the "several reasons" for why there hadn't been updates on its project, after Capcom's release.

"One of the reasons is, Street Fighter X Tekken was released," he said. "That still had updates until recently. One interesting thing we’ve seen with that title when it came out was that it's not quite what we expected.

Harada said Bandai Namco was still looking for "the right time" to release Tekken x Street Fighter.

He affirmed that the game was still in development again July 2013: "It might seem like we haven't started on it at all, but the character lineup has been decided upon since a very long time ago. And we've already finished the polygon models, moves, and systems."

This marks the first instance of Harada admitting the game is no longer an active project at Bandai Namco. The publisher recently released Pokken Tournament, in partnership with Nintendo and The Pokemon company. Its next major fighting game is Tekken 7, which is set for release on PlayStation 4.

You can watch GameSpot's full interview with Harada in the video above.

Wonder what this means?It's basically canceled

 

 

FREAKIN SAW IT COMING LIGHTYEARS AWAY WITH HOW ABSOLUTELY SILENT THEY WERE ABOUT IT

[AzureAce 544]

Honestly can't say I'm surprised.

[Isaix 924]

But the game was annonced ages ago,if they really cared to release the game I sure it could have been out long before Street Fighter V or Tekken 7 were confirmed

[atheist123 583]

Hopefully it will still release eventually.

[Shulk 8,623]

I'm just now getting into the fighting game community and really don't know a lot, so I've been kind of curious: what was the point in making Tekken X Street Fighter if there was already a Street Fighter X Tekken that came out around the same time? Were they going to have different gameplay mechanics or some other major difference(s) to set them apart from each other? Not trying to say it's dumb, just legitimately curious since I've heard it come up often and never understood why two crossovers for the same exact series were being made around the same exact time. I never got into Street Fighter until I picked up Ultra Street Fighter 4 last year, and the closest I've come to seriously playing Tekken would be Pokken Tournament, so I'm pretty much clueless about this situation. Not at all trying to sound like a jerk about it.

 

It does suck for the people who were excited for it, though.

[Sendou Aichi 2,356]

I'm just now getting into the fighting game community and really don't know a lot, so I've been kind of curious: what was the point in making Tekken X Street Fighter if there was already a Street Fighter X Tekken that came out around the same time? Were they going to have different gameplay mechanics or some other major difference(s) to set them apart from each other? Not trying to say it's dumb, just legitimately curious since I've heard it come up often and never understood why two crossovers for the same exact series were being made around the same exact time. I never got into Street Fighter until I picked up Ultra Street Fighter 4 last year, and the closest I've come to seriously playing Tekken would be Pokken Tournament, so I'm pretty much clueless about this situation. Not at all trying to sound like a jerk about it.

 

It does suck for the people who were excited for it, though.

SFXTekken has SF series' gameplay. TekkenXSF would have Tekken series' gameplay.

[Dio Brando 5,810]

I'm just now getting into the fighting game community and really don't know a lot, so I've been kind of curious: what was the point in making Tekken X Street Fighter if there was already a Street Fighter X Tekken that came out around the same time? Were they going to have different gameplay mechanics or some other major difference(s) to set them apart from each other? Not trying to say it's dumb, just legitimately curious since I've heard it come up often and never understood why two crossovers for the same exact series were being made around the same exact time. I never got into Street Fighter until I picked up Ultra Street Fighter 4 last year, and the closest I've come to seriously playing Tekken would be Pokken Tournament, so I'm pretty much clueless about this situation. Not at all trying to sound like a jerk about it.

 

It does suck for the people who were excited for it, though.

The whole thing was a part of two games deal crossover between Capcom and Namco

 

Street Fighter X Tekken was the first part of the deal and it had a pretty much SF4's engine and gameplay but with Tag Team mechanics

 

It got mediocre reception which was the catalyst that led to the second part of the deal,Tekken X Street Fighter(which would've used the gameplay and engine of Tekken 6 and above) to basically get shafted in favor of partnering with Nintendo for Pokken and also get on with future projects such as Tekken 7