Over the weekend,Tekkenfans received news on the supposed cancellation of the long-time large-scale project,Tekken X Street Fighter, first teased over a decade ago and has since been kept under wraps. With nothing but the word of series director Katsuhiro Harada to go by, many fans understandably take information involving the project from the director himself as insight for theTekkenseries’s future.
Unfortunately, discourse between a Japanese developer and a majorly English-speaking audience leads to language barriers, especially when it comes to relaying important information about a project’s development. Over the weekend, a recent video of Katsuhiro Harada’s series, Harada’s Bar, surfaced with English subtitlesstating thatTekken X Street Fighterwas canceled. According to the Tekken director himself, the English translation wasn’t exactly accurate to Harada’s original thoughts, who quickly went on Twitter to clarify the misunderstanding.
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The general confusion and sudden announcement of the supposed cancellation led Harada to post a twitlonger, explaining thatTekken X Street Fighterwasn’t “canceled,” but rather “up to 30% of the development was in progress, but is [now pending].” Following the announcement ofTekken X Street Fighter’scancellation going viral, Harada tweeted his frustrations with the English subtitles, citing that it wasn’t the first time Harada’s comments weren’t accurately translated to English, leading to fans taking his initial words out of context.
Harada states that while the project hadn’t been killed off, it has been put on an indefinite hiatus due to contractual agreements between Bandai Namco and Capcom’s intellectual properties and the individual projects both companies are currently working on. Capcom, in particular, has had its hands full with the ongoing development ofResident Evil Villageand theMonster Hunterfranchise post-release,with long-term DLC plans into the year 2021.
While it’s unknown what project Katsuhiro Harada is working on within Bandai Namco, he has stated in the past that this large-scale project will be the “most costly project” in company history. Following his promotion to a general manager of Bandai Namco,Harada himself has been met with several responsibilitiesoutside ofTekken, leading to both companies experiencing a time crunch that would makeTekken X Street Fighteran unrealistic goal currently.
In positive news forTekkenfans, the inclusion of Akuma may have been what he always wasfollowing his inclusion inTekken 7, a preview on howStreet Fightercharacters would perform using theTekkenengine. In the original Harada’s Bar video, Harada has stated that there are assets he wishes he could show, but, due to the mentioned contractual agreements, it will be kept under wraps until development picks back up again forTekken X Street Fighter.
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