Tag Archives: Katsuhiro Harada

Katsuhiro Harada has said he’s looking at various ways to use the tablet controller for Tekken Wii U.

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A Vita version of Tekken x Street Fighter’s being considered for the handheld, Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada has said.

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Yoshinori Ono and Katsuhiro Harada are coming together with Street Fighter x Tekken, a unique collaboration. The pair spoke to Johnny Cullen and Alex Donaldson in London earlier this month.

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If all goes well with the release of Tekken x Street Fighter, as well as Street Fighter x Tekken, another collaboration is a no-brainer for Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono, telling VG247 he’d be “keen” for it.

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Namco’s hosting a livestream of its GamesAid-backed Fight Club later tonight. Fighting massive will definitely want to get watching.

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Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has tweeted a picture that appears to show hand-drawn concept art of Tekken x Street Fighter. The art, which shows Ryu and Chun-Li, gives an indication of how Street Fighter characters will fit in with the full 3D world of Tekken. Get the picture below the break.

Street Fighter x Tekken, set in the former’s 2.5D universe, launches on PS3 and 360 in March, with Vita and PC versions also due. Not much has been said on Namco’s effort so far.

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The first footage of Tekken x Street Fighter will arrive in the new year, series boss for the former Katsuhiro Harada has said on Twitter. When asked when we would see footage of TK x SF in action, all Harada said was “next year.” Besides a concept piece, not much has been heard on the Namco side of things of the collaboration between it and Capcom, although admitted development hadn’t begun back in July.

Capcom’s effort, Street Fighter x Tekken, launches in March for PS3 and 360, with Vita and PC versions to follow.

Speaking to Gamasutra, Tekken director Katsuhiro Harada has described the small ideas from which the mighty Tekken series grew.

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Namco hasn’t really begun development of a planned Wii U outing for Tekken.

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“I’m thinking about Itagaki and when [former 1UP editor and Q Entertainment's James Mielke] was with you guys that was a big topic — the ‘what are your five most hated games?’ article where he said 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 were all Tekken, right? If Itagaki was still making Dead or Alive, I’d like to ask, out of all the current Tekken titles we have planned, what’s his favorite. His answer would probably be Dead or Alive anyway, and that he hates all Tekken, but it’d be an interesting question. In the past, Itagaki had always mentioned various things about Tekken and stuff, especially on 1UP in his articles with [Mielke]. And there were a few times when I got pissed at what I saw, but I’m kind of realizing that when I saw what he was saying — after he quit Team Ninja, I think he was asked about fighting games and what he thought, and apparently Itagaki said, ‘Well I don’t make fighting games anymore, so I’m not really in a place to comment on that’ — I felt kind of sad when I saw that.” – Tekken creator Katsuhiro Harada, speaking to 1UP about Dead or Alive creator Tomonobu Itagaki’s infamous trash-talking of the series.

If you thought the earlier shorts post was large, wait until you get a load of this one. Okay, we lied. It’s smaller – but not by much.

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Although development hasn’t really begun, Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada is sure of one thing – Tekken x Street Fighter will sport the franchise’s famous one button, one limb approach.

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“Obviously, the Street Fighter characters will have to have their fireballs. Ryu without a fireball just wouldn’t be…right. Obviously we’ll need it. When you look at executing a fireball in a 2D setting, it works almost like a jab. When you play a 2D game like Street Fighter, you obviously can’t go back and forth in the screen — you usually jump over it. But in three-dimensional fighting games like Tekken you can sidestep. So do we want players to jump over fireballs? Or is it okay to sidestep them? That’s something we’re not decided on, we haven’t had enough time to look into it. We have a lot of staff, myself included, who grew up liking Street Fighter. I’m really confident that we can come to a good balance between the two worlds.” – Katsuhiro Harada on developing Tekken x Street Fighter to the PS Blog. [pic]

Before the mentalness that happened overnight, Namco fighting bosses Katsuhiro Harada and Daishi Odashima showed up at EVO to unveil new gameplay footage of Soul Calibur V, as well as take part in a joint panel for SC and Tekken. The fights feature Zwei vs Patroclus, Mitsurugi vs Siegfried and Ivy vs Natsu. Get the lot below, via GameSpot. The fighter’s out next year for PS3 and 360.

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Sales, special deals, and – I gotta tell you – a basically hilarious video of Ono and Harada competing in various ridiculous games. This is just a taster of the excellent material hidden through the break.

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A quick round-up of who said what and when.

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Namco Bandai announced over the weekend at ComicCon that it was to include a playable prologue to Tekken Tag Tournament 2 with PS3 exclusive Tekken Hybrid.

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It’s time for your second batch of shorts for the day. This one features an interesting off-screen video of Yoshinori Ono and Katsuhiro Harada doing, well, just watch. We’ve actually posted the video in here. A shorts first? Maybe.

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Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has said that development on Tekken x Street Fighter is currently at “zero percent,” but that it’s at five percent in his mind.

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Tekken creator Katsuhiro Harada has said Tekken x Street Fighter and Street Fighter x Tekken exist as two discrete games to avoid inter-company clashes.

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