Street Fighter X Tekken announced

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 25 July, 2010

And Tekken X Street Fighter.

Capcom and Namco Bandai Games have announced two crossover fighting games: Street Fighter X Tekken and Tekken X Street Fighter.

Street Fighter X Tekken, in development for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, uses the engine behind Street Fighter IV and Super Street Fighter IV.

Tekken characters such as Kazuya Mishima and Nina Williams will be "re-imagined" using Street Fighter's 2.5D art style.

That means while the character models will be realised in 3D, they will fight on a 2D plane.

The game will include modes such as Versus, Training and Tag Team combat, where players select two fighters to deliver knockout assist attacks and special combos.

Commenting on the origins of the project, Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono said: "This is history we're making. Two fighting games that have rivalled each other are finally standing on the same stage. This isn't just a showdown between Tekken and Street Fighter, but a decisive battle for Capcom and Namco Bandai Games. So I'm going to give it my all."

Meanwhile, Namco Bandai Games is working on Tekken X Street Fighter, in development at Namco by Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada.

According to a report by Kotaku, Tekken X Street Fighter will play in the style of Tekken, with contestants fighting in a 3D arena.

At the San Diego Comic-Con, where both titles were announced, Ono said the games won't be out "for a while" and that fighting game fans should enjoy Marvel vs. Capcom 3 while they wait.

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About Wesley Yin-Poole

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Comments (41) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • CYBER-WOO #1 2 years ago

    Cant wait for this!!

  • superfurryanimal #2 2 years ago

    OMG My Bruce will destroy all. My +50 Thai pants will deflect all your negatives

  • MiniAmin #3 2 years ago

    It's a beautiful thing to witness the re-emergence of the fighting genre. Long may it continue.

  • secombe #4 2 years ago

    Fantastic idea, best of luck to both of them with this project. Seems like a great way of pushing both teams to make the best possible game, which should be good news for the fans.

  • hardtech #5 2 years ago

    I reckon the best thing they could probably do is release them at the same time and offer a double pack option for a discounted price. If that happens, I will be getting both I reckon

  • rogueJT #6 2 years ago

    kewl.

  • The_Inquisitor #7 2 years ago

    Namco have their work cut out for sure, not that Capcom have it easy by any means.

  • Kanselier #8 2 years ago

    Shaky cam footage: [link url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6U7jZ-qMfI&fea ture=player_embedded
    ]http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=N6U7jZ-qM...[/link]

    Enjoy the screaming fanboys :)

  • Lunastra78 #9 2 years ago

    I'd rather have a new Tekken without juggling, but I guess that's just me.

  • paulf #10 2 years ago

    just simply YES !

  • Slipstream #11 2 years ago

    I'll be all over this like rash, loving and criticising!

  • JahB #12 2 years ago

    This is nothing short of epic.

  • metalangel #13 2 years ago

    I suck at fighting games but cannot deny this is very cool.

  • Bibbo #14 2 years ago

    Fucking brilliant. We really are spoilt for beat em ups. This, MvC 3 and now Capcom just letting us know Street Fighter III is being re-released for online play. I certainly couldn't ask any more from Capcom.

  • rogueJT #15 2 years ago

    "Shaky cam footage: [link url=http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=N6U7jZ-qM...
    ]http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=N6U7jZ-qM...[/link]

    Enjoy the screaming fanboys :) "

    Awesome. thanks for the link.

    So far it looks like it's exactly the same as SSFIV so I guess they only have to program the Tekken characters.

    Nice cameo of those cool yellow toy shop masks from Dead Rising in the background.
    (I think they appear in a few Capcom games, anyone tell me if it was Dead Rising they appeared in first?)
    Edited by 1 at 25/07/10 @ 17:45

  • Ron_Justice #16 2 years ago

    Absolute class. If both games are executed as well as SSFIV, then we're in for a very good time.

  • onyx_elite #17 2 years ago

    Am I the only one that thinks that Street Fighter X Tekken sounds like an amazing crossover using an already popular 2.5d art and play style whereas Tekken X Street Fighter sounds like shameless cod-bollocks dreamt up to make Namco Bandai feel better and somehow give them validation that it's just as worthwhile to dump Street Fighter characters into the same bog-standard 3d engine they've been using since the PS2?

  • DDevil #18 2 years ago

    Yeah, those yellow heads are ServBots. Small bots created by Tron Bonne who is a Mega Man character.

  • onyx_elite #19 2 years ago

    Servbot and T Bonne were also playable characters in Marvel Vs Capcom 2

  • Ryze #20 2 years ago

    Woah!

  • Vice.Destroyer #21 2 years ago

    If only I was good at fighting games. Man, Street Fighter IV must have sold an insane amount of copies.

  • swede #22 2 years ago

    This is the way to do a joint venture! A fantastic idea.

  • FuzzyDuck #23 2 years ago

    Is there any character that doesn't look perfect in SF's modern asthetic? I was amazed at how good the returning characters looked in SSFIV (especially Cody and T. Hawk), but the fact that Kazuya looks spot on in that video (thanks Kanselier) is really amazing.

    Might play SSFIV back to back with T6 this eve! Good time to be a fight fan, for sure.

  • BlitzwingHaz #24 2 years ago

    @onyx_elite Why the hate for the Tekken based game? If anything its the one I'm looking forward to more, I'm more of a Tekken fan admittedly but I like the idea of Ryu and co having lots of martial arts based moves rather than a few special moves.
    I'm loving this though, I'll probably buy both games.
    Edited by 1 at 25/07/10 @ 19:28

  • swede #25 2 years ago

    I said 'fantastic idea' a few posts back. After thinking about it a little more, it has dawned on me that it is fecking genius. (If they are both good...) 99% of people of people are going to buy both versions.... l
    ater on... DRM/enhanced rereleases/a sequel.

    All times 2!

    From a business standpoint... genius.
    From a consumer standpoint.... genius.

    Everyone's a winner.

  • Buran #26 2 years ago

    I'm more interested in a Tekken vs Virtua Fighter crossover. Tekken doesn't makes sense in 2D and in a environment of range attcks, even after saw the vid.

  • spiritsnake #27 2 years ago

    Now time for microsoft and sony to do such a stunt for the next gen PlayBox or X-station. considering they wana demolish nintendo next round.

  • Nillsens #28 2 years ago

    Seems some dreams can come true.

  • chrisola #29 2 years ago

    "If only I was good at fighting games. Man, Street Fighter IV must have sold an insane amount of copies. "

    I'm pretty sure that at the start of the announcement for this game the Capcom SF guy Ono said it had sold 4 million and saved his job!

    Super SF 4 is also coming to the new 3DS, nice!

  • xero521 #30 2 years ago

    fuckin epic cant wait!

  • kinky_mong #31 2 years ago

    I agree with onyx_elite, Tekken has been poor for years.

  • Huxamalay #32 2 years ago

    Am I the only one that cant see this working. Sure, the concept sounds amazing, but in reality I can see this being shit

  • SpaceMonkey77 #33 2 years ago

    Best news of the weekend. I've been monitoring Capcom at Comicon and it was worth it for this. Icing on the cake of a teaser trailer, is getting some actual gameplay footage to bite on. After E3, where most games were only videos on show, this was great to see and its surprising Capcom have held this news so long.

    Still have to wait and see what Namco's version will be like, (that will be the true test of gamers buying both copies, after recent Tekkens, I have T6 and its has flaws that shouldn't be there) but today is a great day for all fighting game fans. I bet the likes of Sega, SNK and Arc are lickng their wounds in jealousy of such genius.

    Tekken vs VF, would work technically, but the majority of those VF characters have no personality at all, something these kinds of games need, which both Tekken and SF do well. There's a reason why the VF games have also sold poorly of late too. It just doesn't have the street cred like SF and Tekken.

    As for Warner and Ed Boon, this is how fighting games should be done. Take a seat and learn from the best.

  • vizzini #34 2 years ago

    I played Tekken 2 for years when it came out thorough out my time at Uni, and also played Street fighter 2 on Snes through school; so I have a found-ness for both game franchises, but I do think it is a complete traversity that Virtua Fighter isn't getting this type of love from Sega on PS3/360, as it deserves to sit at the top of the tree (imho)

    Virtua Fighter 5 was certainly a difficult step up for me from playing Tekken, Soul calibur and Street Fighter, but the game has such good visuals and animation. And once I'd invested 6months to get up to speed the playability was definitely a style I preferred

    I thought SFIV was stylishly done and I'm sure the Tekken enhanced version will be equally good, but I'll be more interest to see how the Street fighter enhanced version of Tekken turns out more; as I feel it has struggled to move up from its PSone roots and could be a good excuse to build a new engine and system along the lines of Virtua fighter 5, and take the opportunity to eliminate all the nonsense characters like Lizard, Panda, Kangaroo, etc that have no place in a good fighting game.

    Personally I'd prefer Sony and Microsoft to beg Sega to update Virtua Fighter 5 to VF5R as chargeable DLC. With an agreement for Final Showdown when it reaches version C.

    But we already know Sega's thoughts on funding patches for their games that don't sell +1million copies, from the recent cancellation of updates to Alien versus Predator.

  • Lamb #35 2 years ago

    I told you! I told you! I've got pig iron! I've got pig iron!

    I knew they would bring out another Street Fighter in a short span of space like back in the day. I would like to see DC Universe Vs. Marvel Universe done by the MK creators.

    And I've purchased two fighting games within the last 12 months SSFIV & the excellent Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe.

    All the franchises have some degree of good quality, for me personally street cred wise SF & MK are top followed by TK, VF, and DOA. Sadly never touched SC or SSB. KOF and SS also deserve honorable mentions.
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/10 @ 01:52

  • RobotRocker #36 2 years ago

    Ugh.I cant believe they are already recycling 3D models. Makes it look like console Mugen. What the hell Dimps.

    This is going to be bad. Not SvC Chaos bad but were talking middle of the road Plasma Sword 2/SF EX3 muck. There is no way you can make this work without significantly nerfing the SF cast or buffing the Tekken cast to have more options to deal with fireballs and have more screen filling moves like the SF characters do. I know T6 was a lot more gimmicky than the others, but seriously, this is such an awful fit and I like SSF4.

    Everyone involved in this should feel bad.

    As for Warner and Ed Boon, this is how fighting games should be done. Take a seat and learn from the best.

    Oh yes, two franchises that are significantly different to each other and will probably turn off the players. Its bullshit and the worst kind at that. MK Vs DC worked with its bullshit and made it enjoyable, fanservicey bullshit because they had a clean slate with the DC characters and did a lot with them. It wasn't the greatest game in the world but it was enjoyable (classy cheap shot you got there though). Capcom Vs SNK had its games similar to each other anyway so making the franchises work with each other was very easy. Plus lol sprites.

    Seriously. This is an absolute trainwreck waiting to happen and the fact that were getting this toss instead of a new Darkstalkers is depressing me horribly.

    Bring on Marvel 3 quickly please Capcom because that looks hype as hell.
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/10 @ 03:50

  • MiniAmin #37 2 years ago

    It's scares me that devs and publishers may read posts like RobotRocker's and then decide to forgo innovative ideas for games.

    @ Robotrocker

    Don't be so convinced it'll be bad. The game has been in development for 2 months and the shaky cam footage already looks great. Creative risks are becoming rarer these days, so let's reward innovation with anticipation, not fear or even malice.
    Edited by 1 at 26/07/10 @ 09:29

  • andywilkie35 #38 2 years ago

    At first I thought "Why do we need two of these?" but after reading, I'm very intrigued by this, can't wait to see how the characters look in the other games' art style, particularly the Tekken characters in the SF4 style

  • rayk2099 #39 2 years ago

    But will it be better than Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games?

  • RobotRocker #40 2 years ago

    It's scares me that devs and publishers may read posts like RobotRocker's and then decide to forgo innovative ideas for games.


    If Innovation is lazily reskinning a bunch of Tekken characters into the SF4 engine then OOGA BOOGA BOOGA.

  • knightmt #41 2 years ago

    Both of these are going to be intriguing. 60 moves vs 3(maybe 10 in SSFIV) something has got to give. I know this is a simplification but it is a massive conflict of styles, very adventurous.