Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada has declared in an interview that the developer will never feature any premium character DLC in any of his games, including the upcoming Tekken X Street Fighter. This follows the controversial decision by Capcom to include premium DLC characters on-disc for Street Fighter X Tekken.
According to Harada during Namco’s Global Gamer Day in Las Vegas, “Tekken has never had DLC before and charged for it.”
He then temporized, ”This isn’t really directed at Capcom. I have always said this, but I see the characters and their move sets as chess pieces–they are essential items necessary in the game, and we would never sell any of those individually.”
”It’s Capcom’s business decision, obviously, but I expect the reason they did that was if one player bought a character that another player didn’t have, they would not be able to play against each other online,” he concluded.
Tekken X Street Fighter is being released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but has no release date yet.
