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Capcom And Namco Team Up For Crossover Fighting Games

Street Fighter X Tekken announced at Capcom Comic-Con Panel.


Weird, right? 
Weird, right? 
Rumors first started cropping up back at EVO a couple of weeks ago, and now Capcom and Bandai Namco have made it official: the Street Fighter and Tekken franchises will collide next year via a pair of upcoming fighting games.

Capcom mainly discussed its side of the conflict, which will be called Street Fighter X Tekken. That's "Street Fighter Cross Tekken" if you're saying it out loud, sort of like Namco X Capcom, the crossover RPG that Namco released on the PS2. The upcoming fighter will be a two-on-two tag battle game, and so far Ryu and Chun-Li are confirmed for the SF side while Kazuya Mishima and Nina Williams are set on the Tekken side. Dan also makes an appearance in the trailer, but that's not exactly confirmation that he'll appear in playable form. Capcom's game will run on the same engine technology that powered Super Street Fighter IV.

Namco will also develop and release a crossover fighter. If naming conventions hold, this game will probably end up going by Tekken X Street Fighter. That's how Capcom and SNK handled it when they did a similar character swap for Capcom vs. SNK and SNK vs. Capcom. But all of that is unconfirmed at the moment and no actual details on this game are available.

I was a serious Tekken fan early on, but once Tekken 4 hit, that and the subsequent sequels felt like they were quickly losing their way. But the characters themselves are solid, so I'm at least interested to see what Capcom does with them. I'm... a bit less interested in seeing what Namco's developers do with the Capcom characters.

Street Fighter X Tekken is in development for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but no release date has been given at this time. Here's the game's first trailer.
  
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Edited By JoWill1986

I think it would be more interesting if they released a new Darkstalkers games instead or  better yet think about a Darkstalkers VS Power Stone. Think about it for a second!

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I got Tekken 2 with my Playstation I played that game for like 2 years straight and I got Tekken tag with my PS2, SF4 was the 1st Street Fighter I got into so im really interested with this, not liking the whole SF pause bullshit when you tag through takes away from the action might just wait for the namco version.

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@sins_of_mosin said:
" Bah, just let the genre die in peace. "
lol, Fighting games just got a resurge. Its not going anywhere for a while now.
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Edited By sins_of_mosin

Bah, just let the genre die in peace.
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@Abyssfull said:
" Tekken's characters absolutely cream over the SF cast in terms of memorability so this is one crossover I'm exceptionally looking forward to! Namco version of course. I've always preferred my Tekken fighting style to SF's 2D plain. "
good joke
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Edited By Maclintok

Good stuff.  Both games will give the Tekken franchise a big boost in the NA market.  Tekken does gangbusters in Japan and S.Korea but seems to be a red-headed stepchild here in the west.

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Edited By babz

Alot of fighting game coming out now, there gane over populate the market again!! we need only a few that we can all play together, we dont need a 1000 playing that game and a 1000 this &so on. dam em, this can only go bad! gana end up back like we were a few years ago.

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*sigh* will MK vs SF EVER exist?

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Edited By unsolvedparadox

I'm not big on Tekken, but I can never get too much Street Fighter. Never.

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I will play the Street Fighter X Tekken version but ONLY if it isn't all the way 2v2. If it has a 1v1 mode then I am all about it. If not, then I will be playing a lot of the new Mortal Kombat next year for my fighting game fix.

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Edited By Eelcire

Bummer, two fighting franchises I have no interest in =( 
 
As this seems to be Ono's big announcment that means an even longer wait for a new Darkstalkers. Hope fans of these series find some fun in this new crossover though. At least I have MvC3 to look forward to.

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@Figcoinc said:
" EVERYONE PAY ATTENTION! The best thing ever is going to happen because of this crossover.   Just think about Tekken for a Second. What fighter does Tekken have? Puma! A fucking bear. What does Street Fighter have? Zangief! See where I am going with this.  We are finally going to witness ZANGIEF WRESTLE A FUCKING BEAR! "
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EVERYONE PAY ATTENTION! The best thing ever is going to happen because of this crossover.
 
Just think about Tekken for a Second. What fighter does Tekken have? Puma! A fucking bear. What does Street Fighter have? Zangief! See where I am going with this.
 
We are finally going to witness ZANGIEF WRESTLE A FUCKING BEAR!

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Edited By obcdexter

 
 Just thinking about Chun-Li in a Tekken game with a Tekken move set gives me the chills.
After Lili and Asuka (oh god, please let at least one of those make the cut) she'll be the third girl I'll actually (kinda) learn
how to play.
I love the SF universe, but I kinda lost interest in actually playing the games after the third Alpha. I'll still check out Capcom's 
version, though I seriously dislike the art-style of the current SF game(s).

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Edited By Little_Socrates

Too sad, I was really looking forward to Namco vs. Capcom...you know, with Darkstalkers and Soul Calibur thrown in, plus a handful of side characters (Klonoa, Eternal Sonata stuff, Tales of Symphonia/Vesperia, Xenosaga, Baten Kaitos, etc. for Namco) from each company.

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Edited By Spiritof

I think the storyline in Tekken X Street Fighter would be far more apeshit crazy and enjoyable than the Street Fighter X Tekken would be. I'm a bigger fan of playing SF, but Tekken does have a stronger 'WTF' factor that makes the franchise kinda fun.

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Edited By Jazz

Lovely trailer, but zero interest. 
SFIV is not to my taste. I'd much rather have an Arc System Works vs Capcom as well, with 2d sprites. I really don't like the chunky look they have in SFIV.

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I would think Tekken X SF would be more interesting to see SF characters on a 3D engine.

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@Jeff said:

"I was a serious Tekken fan early on, but once Tekken 4 hit, that and the subsequent sequels felt like they were quickly losing their way."

 Tekken 4's mechanics were a bit wonky, but Tekken 5 was fantastic; it played just like Tekken 3 and had a humongous cast.
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Edited By lacke

Bring SF vs MK instead. Would be much more interesting and fun. 
 
At least it's Street Fighter VS Tekken and not Capcom VS Namco, I'll give them that. Although it would have been fun to see Ryu fight Pac Man.

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@Addfwyn: 
 
...Damn, now I really want to play ArcSys vs. Capcom. I suppose I can dream along with the Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat folk...
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Meh

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@JJOR64: @InfiniteGeass said:
" I'm way more excited for Namco's version to be honest. "
same here
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CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM.

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Edited By FireSketch

Since I grew up playing Tekken (albeit 4, which is apparently horrible) I'm way excited to see what Namco does.
 
I can probably guess though.

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Ganryu + Bob VS. E.Honda + Rufus. this should be pretty awesome

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Tekken and Street Fighter? Well, I'll be damned.

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Would be interesting to see if Namco's game gives the Street Fighter characters the realistic paced moves of the Tekken games, bring them back to a more real art style and give them real martial arts. 
I just want Tekken 2 Lei and Yoshimitsu.

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I wish the announcement was Darkstalkers 3.  That would have been a far more appealing announcement Capcom.

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Screen this 1 x 1 bullshit, where the hell is Capcom vs SNK X Namco vs Mortal Kombat RE: DC Universe?!?!

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BRING IN SOUL CALIBUR


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making sure to get the street fighter version ONLY!

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I'm interested but I am likely to only get the Street Fighter X Tekken version. I haven't been real keen on a Tekken game in a long while.

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Please bring Namco X Capcom to the US. That game is awesome. Sure it's not a fighting game, but come on.

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@Ace829: Oops 'NOT' much liked.  Typo
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@Addfwyn said:
" Since it's two fighting game franchises I've much liked, I'm going to have to pass on this one, but cheers to those who like Tekken and/or Street Fighter. Maybe I'd play an ArkSys vs Capcom (or even just a Guilty Gear vs Blazblue).  In fact, I know I would. "
Wait, I'm confused. You liked Tekken and SF but you'll pass?
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Pass. Wake me when Virtua Fighter does something, and it's not ironic.

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@InfiniteGeass said:
" I'm way more excited for Namco's version to be honest. "
I'm not too sure about me being more excited for Namco's version, BUT I AM way more INTERESTED in their version...
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Finally, it has happened. I'm kind of stoked about the 2vs2 choice, because it would make the game feel kind of like Tekken Tag Tournament (one of the series' best games).

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Since it's two fighting game franchises I've not much liked, I'm going to have to pass on this one, but cheers to those who like Tekken and/or Street Fighter.
 
Maybe I'd play an ArkSys vs Capcom (or even just a Guilty Gear vs Blazblue).  In fact, I know I would.

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i'm shocked at how this came about.  

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This is all well and good but with the new Marvel vs Capcom game on the way too I get the feeling Capcom is going a little overboard. With the time and money they are putting into these VS spin offs they could at least bring Darkstalkers up to date or some other highly anticipated Capcom series back from the dead.
 
Then again they did try with Bionic Commando and look how well that turned out. I guess this is Capcom's way of playing it safe, so I suppose it's not THAT bad.

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Third Striiike!  All I really want is CvS3.

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Maybe since Tekken is using 3d SF characters, we'll finally see the return of Skullomania.

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When I saw this I had to look at the date to make sure it wasn't April 1st. Wow, completely suprised by this!
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I am intrigued. Interested in seeing what the main differences will be. However, I am quite more excited about Capcom's version to be honest.

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Fucking EPIC!

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I wonder if the costume DLC from Super and the original get carried over to this.
Also does  this  mean the rumored new DLC characters for Super was just a case of misinterpretation? And that leaked screen shot of the character roster was referring to this game?

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@jmood88 said:
" @Abyssfull said:
" Tekken's characters absolutely cream over the SF cast in terms of memorability so this is one crossover I'm exceptionally looking forward to! Namco version of course. I've always preferred my Tekken fighting style to SF's 2D plain. "
We must be playing different games cause outside of Law, King, and the animals, the Tekken guys all just seem like generic characters. "
Oh, come on! Throw in Virtua Fighter in the mix and all 3 of these games have fairly generic martial art archetypes that just blend well with each other.
 
That's what happens when you generally try to make fighters out of some what realistic fighting styles (Or in the guise of a real fighting style anyways, fireballs aren't real afterall).
 
I see personal fondness working in both of your cases.