Capcom’s Keiji Inafune ”literally kicked my arse,” said Ono-san and so the team will work faster. All brawler franchises are ”doing really well.”
”At Comic-Con I think I said two years. After that I got called into Inafune’s room and he literally kicked my arse. So I’m trying to shorten that. So, yeah, less than two years,” said Yoshinori Ono. Keiji Inafune is Capcom’s head of R&D.
”My message to your readers is that the fighting genre has flourished lately with the help of Street Fighter and Tekken. All the franchises are doing really well. So we didn’t want to let the fans down. We wanted to keep this going.”
”That’s why we announced it as a gratuity to the fans, saying, ‘We’re going to keep on doing this,’” he added. Namco are also producing Tekken x Street Fighter as a rival cross-over release. Each game from their respective studios uses their own series’ engine.
”Having said that, we can’t just announce it and then release something that’s not very good. So we really have to put our effort in this. Okay, we announced it a bit early. That was just so that we don’t let you down. We also have this duty of bringing out something perfect, to deliver it to you. We’ll be doing our best in doing so.”
An executive giving another an ‘arse kicking’? Geez, games are so violent. Street Fighter x Tekken and Tekken x Street Fighter releases on Xbox 360 and PS3.
