The Tekken X Street Fighter is apparently definitively canceled -apkrig
The Tekken X Street Fighter crossover from Bandai Namco Studios is apparently definitively canceled. The game, announced in 2010 at Comic-Con in San Diego, was supposed to be based on Tekken technology and gameplay, while the Street Fighter X Tekken counterpart originated at Capcom and was released in 2012. Now this endless story seems to be over. Despite repeated assurances that the developers will return to the title, game producer Kacuhiro Harada has said development has stopped.
About 30 percent of the game was supposed to be done, it fell on the show Harada’s Bar. The authors obviously had some models and animations ready, which they praise. According to them, female figures looked good. According to the developers, they would like us to see some of it, because a number of talented artists worked on the project, but this will obviously not happen. And they called the game dead.
The game was supposed to be released on the previous generation of consoles
At Vortex, we repeatedly focused on Tekken X Street Fighter, and in December 2019, we published a larger article on the subject that summarized the history of the title. At that time, it still seemed that the fans would see one day, because Kacuhiro Harada spoke relatively regularly about the project. He last asked players if they were still interested in Tekken X Street Fighter at the end of 2019.
You can recall the details of more than a decade of waiting in the mentioned topic. We will recapitulate here, at least by telegraph, only a few of the most important chapters of the whole story. A pair of crossover games was announced by Yoshinori Ono (Street Fighter) and Kacuhiro Harada (Tekken). Tekken X Street Fighter was originally supposed to be released on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
Paradoxically, the success of other titles could have hurt the game
At Gamesom in 2010, there was a short demonstration of the engine, in which Ryu from Street Fighter appeared. Around 2015, some 40 people were to work on the game. In April 2016, however, the development of the title from Bandai Namco was officially temporarily (suspended due to the fact that the authors do not want to fragment the communities of both original titles.) It seems that the temporary stop has become permanent.
Street Fighter V was only on the market for a while at this time and Tekken 7 was just about to release a console version from the original slot machine. “We don’t want to divide these communities,” Harada said in an interview with GameSpot, saying it was difficult to find a suitable release window for the news. And as it turned out later, the life cycle of fighters has been significantly extended compared to the past, for example thanks to DLC. In recent years, according to Harad, he also doubted whether to return to the project and whether it would get the green light from the management.
More details on the whole case can be found in the mentioned topic.
