Namco Tekken boss Katsuhiro Harada has told Kikizo that doing a 360 version of Tekken 6 was a matter of common sense: there are simply too many green consoles in the world market to ignore. Snip:
Kikizo: You remember close to the beginning of the series, a time when Tekken was very closely associated with PlayStation. Obviously it's not just PlayStation now, so what would you say the sort of die-hard PlayStation fans who maybe feel 'betrayed'?
Harada: Yes, we have developed it PlayStation 1, 2 and now 3, so it is true that we have really grown with the PlayStation brand - we have a lot of fond memories, and we worked very closely with Mr Kutaragi as well, so we had a really good relationship. We love the platform. But rather than some fans feeling disappointed, there are a lot of Xbox users out there at the moment, and a great deal of fans who only have an Xbox and really want to play Tekken, which is the number one in the fighting genre. And we just had so many fans that said "we really want to get our hands on it, but can't." So we wanted to answer those fans. And it's also the timing at this point - at the moment we have two high spec consoles on the market at the same time; the Xbox has a huge installed base in Europe and America. So it was more about trying to answer the fans' requests and having as many as possible be able to get the game - that was the objective there.
There's loads more through there, Tekken fans.
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"Bringing Tekken to 360 was a matter of reaching Europe and the US" that is just bullsh!t. tekken is already successful franchise, they don't need to reach out...
BullS@@@
Wasn't that Square's reasoning? How's that working out for Square? (especially with all those quality games they pump out in the past year or so)
Still not happy with this descision.
Tekken started as a and IS a Playstation brand. Funny how the 360 tries to carve itself an identity and market audience, but slowly steals others instead.
I guess Namco have to make money, but this was a bit of a hard backstabber seeing Tekken has never been on anything else since its creation and isn't even in the same arguement of Metal Gear or Final Fantasy, because those went from different platforms anyway.