Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has responded to questions about demands from his fans on Twitter, following a rant where he asked them all to grow up. Harada explains that they hard to please, and compares his Twitter fanbase to Capcom's Yoshinori Ono.
Katsuhiro Harada: "I’d like to share that I’ll be leaving Bandai Namco at the end of 2025. With the TEKKEN series reaching its 30th anniversary—an important milestone for a project I’ve devoted much of my life to—I felt this was the most fitting moment to bring one chapter to a close."
Yeah, Tekken has been his baby so it'll be interesting to see the direction the next game takes...if they even decide to make it without him.
Gamereactor: "The Tekken series is celebrating its 30th anniversary, and to mark the occasion, veteran Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada - who has been involved with the series since the very first game - visited Sweden and we recently had the chance to talk to him."
I don't think there's been enough new characters between Tag 2 to now to warrant a Tag 3.
Besides, there's that other Tekken game supposedly not canceled.... TxSF......
Tekken tag tournament 2 is one of my favourite Tekken games ever so I would love another one :)
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Can't imagine what it must be like to deal with thousands of gamers all the time. Tiring at best?
Or it's easier to be vocal and get in contact with the people making the games. There was no Twitter when Tekken 3 was released.
it's because gamers have generally turned into a bunch of whiny, entitled cry babies.
Give the fans what they want, they will complain because it's not enough, or there's "more" that could be added; Give the fans what you like or what you think will work, first argument "Why don't companies listen to their fanbase?"
I have high confidence the Namco version will be much better since their fighters I've played had 0 DLC but a ton of unlockables through playing the game.
Older generation of gamers were just happy to get what we were getting cause the industry was not as mainstream as it is today. So whenever a game came out the older generation accepted it for what it was.
Now that games have become more mainstream & more publicly recognized it is difficult to live up to the hype that gamers set for the developers. Sometimes it is the fault of the developers to hype up their game & sometimes it is the gaming media that set such high expectations. So when these are not met gamers feel the right to 'voice their opinions'. Is it unfair? Probably but that is life in this age of gaming, so very different say 15 years ago.