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Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, Akuma/Gouki announced as playable character
- Thread starter Rajang
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I've already spent almost what it is exchange rate wise $800 US playing vanilla Tekken 7 in the arcades here, I'd say the franchise is fine.
Leo's voice sounded weirdly electronic when she said that word.
Yep, hardcore fans subsidize the casual base. It's always been this way, Tekken and other fighters do just fine.
Yep, hardcore fans subsidize the casual base. It's always been this way, Tekken and other fighters do just fine.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
What if this Akuma is a different version than his SF counterpart?
SkylineRKR
Member
TTT2 sold like shit on consoles.
And the arcade first business is a relic of the past. It makes sense for Asia but not for the other regions. The wait killed Tekken 6, Namco shipped millions and a lot of stock collected dust. I was gutted to see the Hoodie edition I bought a week before launch for 89, to be offered for 29. Just 3 or 4 weeks later. Tekken 6 mainly sold well from the bargain bin.
SFV dropped arcades and its coming along nicely, being tested via betas. Looks to become a balanced game and a huge success. They could always release an arcade version for Asia afterwards.
Baroquemantic
Member
raven777, you are doing god's devil's work with these GIFs!
I can see an upside to TxSF being cancelled and being thrown into T7. This way they won't cannibalise sales of both IPs if they were supposed to launch close to eachother and they can start focusing on the next non-Mishima Tekken. It might actually help with getting more people into Tekken too. Still a shame though.
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
Watch Tekken X Street Fighter be re-revealed as 'here's a half dozen Street Fighter characters as Tekken 7 DLC'.
DryEyeRelief
Member
Does that stop Gundam from being ridiculously popular and arguably the most popular game in game centers period?
It makes them so much money either way and the competitive scene does not die because of it. Game centers lobby for these games to delay a console release because of the revenue they make.
Location tests are extremely useful data that are still in use. The betas you play for SFV are older builds that things have already changed since then. SFV's data mostly came from the location tests it provided and community feedback from that.
Tekken just had a major tournament with almost 1000 participants from almost only Japan with a handful of international players.
Tekken is alive and well.
Don't ask how much is spent playing gundam...
onepiecefan
Member
Just come out already! Don't want to have to keep going back to the PS3 just to play Tekken 
No SxT? Me sad
Oh well, now rooting for Claw to appear someday in T7.
I think this should give more hope for TxSF.
It's not uncommon for the Tekken team to test stuff. Tekken Revolution, which has 5 million downloads, was pretty much a test game for Tekken 7 where they tried out different mechanics/systems.
In Tekken 7, the Ultra moves (Rage Arts) seems like Namco's first effort of trying to get a mixture of Tekken style fighting with supers/ultra's.
DryEyeRelief
Member
Yess, I'm still buzzing.
Yes a lot. Bannam is still one of my favorite company. are you still giving away those Tekken shirts and the Tekken Joshibu gear?
I was able to get the Devil Asuka but I was unable to get the Lili and Eliza one (꒦ິ⌑꒦ີ
Tales from my ass...
Are you one of those "Street Fighter IV saved fighting games" type of people?
SkylineRKR
Member
I hate SFIV. Never enjoyed its mechanics, and art direction looks like shit. So no. Matter of fact, SFIV almost managed to kill it again with its retail update antics (along with MvC3 fraud).
I am one of those people that can't play Tekken in arcades anymore unless he travels thousands of miles. Don't try to put me in some sort of camp, I hate that shit.
What is there not to understand? The game is a lot of fun and it deserves its success.
I don't up get what the last part is supposed to fucking mean.
Korea too, last I checked Tekken is even more esports in South Korea than it is in Japan.
Also South Korean arcades have the game at like what amounts to 30 cents per play USD, one regular play in Japan is ¥100.
That doesn't even include Tekken-net subscription and any of the other promotions they do for themed limited run items.
The game is also in other countries too like the Philippines, and apparently Australia according to Tekken-net's international side.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I want to be excited but this probably means a 2017 release and I should just forget about it until then.
I didn't want to ask for it since you helped me out with that other stuff that will likely go into a custom stick now, but could you hook me up with one of those shirts? TekkenGAFJapan rep here.
Also the biggest market for Tekken is Europe. I remember Harada saying that 24 of the 44 million Tekken sales are from EU.
I'm sure it will be 2016.
Historically, the Tekken games have released on console a year after the arcade, the only exception being Tekken 6 (which came 2 years after).
I'm sure it will be 2016.
Historically, the Tekken games have released on console a year after the arcade, the only exception being Tekken 6 (which came 2 years after).
SkylineRKR
Member
Technically the wait between bloodline and consoles was 1 year. Vanilla T6 wasn't good enough.
2016 is possible. TTT Unlimited and console port were released within the same year afaik.
MrCookiepants
Member
Tekken has been going for 20 years without needing a reboot or hiatus. It is still the best selling fighting franchise of all time. pls consider these facts before you imply that Tekken is done.
That's crazy
DryEyeRelief
Member
Is that why they put Akuma into the game?
Passive Assassin
Member
id rike it if there was pc release next year ...
Dark Ninja
Member
I really hope they do a PC release I might actually play this
I just think Ono and Harada are super buddies and want to cross their streams as much as they can now.
I guess their will be something tekken in SFV (Akuma would be nice to ..).
Mr.Fletcher
Member
Love this announcement - my interest in Tekken has been reignited (though I don't suppose it ever died as I've bought all the mainline games).
tiggerkiddo
Member
Not expecting this to massively revive the US Tekken scene but I would love it to. My state is not big on 3D fighters...=/
What's up with the horrible film-grain filter on these screenshots?
It's me or Lili's face become worse? Ok she looks older but now she looks more generic and a straight good girl, in the past her face was slightly more particular and reflected her personality more imo.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
I might buy this game just because of Xiaoyu
