Street Fighter/Tekken Crossovers Revealed With Debut Video
Like Street Fighter? Like Tekken? Like it when they blend two franchises together ala Marvel vs. Capcom?
If so, you're gonna love this. Capcom and Namco Bandai have announced what very well may be the the biggest crossover(s) in fighting history. We've heard some of the rumors and perhaps surprisingly, they've turned out to be true: Street Fighter X Tekken is indeed a reality, so you'll soon be able to square off with King when playing as Guile, or take Chun Li and attack Heihachi. Right now, the game is known as that aforementioned title but the "X" stands for "cross" so we're not entirely sure how to refer to it... But to confuse things even further, there's a second game with the reverse title; Tekken X Street Fighter. See, Capcom will do one and Namco Bandai will do the other, and it doesn't help that they won't be identical in terms of structure and style. Street Fighter X Tekken will be developed with a 2.5D perspective like SFIV, while Tekken X Street Fighter will be fully 3D ala the popular Tekken titles. Get it? Here, maybe a video will help.
This is the debut trailer for the announced games, and we have to say, we're intrigued. I don't even like the genre but these crossovers bring back a lot of old memories, and thoughts of "what if" from way back when. So, will you get just one, or both? It'll probably depend on your preferred battling perspective...
Related Game(s): Street Fighter X Tekken
Tags: street fighter, tekken, street fighter x tekken
7/24/2010 4:42:30 PM Ben Dutka
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MadPowerBomber
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:01:29 PM
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I'm in heaven. XD!!!
Shams
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:22:08 PM
MadPowerBomber
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:31:51 PM
johnld
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:26:47 PM
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:34:52 PM
Mornelithe
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:14:39 PM
It means they're going to be giving Tekken characters ranged Ki blasts, it defeats the purpose of Tekken, imo. Tekken was never supposed to be like Street Fighter, and vice versa.
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:28:15 PM
Shams
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:27:18 PM
Ergi
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:30:31 PM
MadPowerBomber
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:36:05 PM
It's just like any other mechanic of a fighting game system. Sucks like hell when it happens to you, but when you pull it off it's pretty awesome.
Ergi
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:47:12 PM
Oyashiro
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:07:22 PM
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Both series have completely different play styles, I can see balancing the characters will be a big problem. I guess they are going to do what they did to Capcom characters in the MvC series to the Tekken characters. Power them up a bit and give them some new moves so they can compete evenly.
MadPowerBomber
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:20:59 PM
Oyashiro
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:36:56 PM
You can't adapt a 3D Fighter to a 2D fighter without completely changing how the characters play, and vice versa.
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 6:03:15 PM
Scarecrow
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:17:37 PM
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:42:09 PM
Scarecrow
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:02:36 PM
SFIII's main following was fully centered around the tournament scene (a VERY a small percentage of the SF community).
It failed as a SF in terms of sales and overall impact.
The fighting genre wasn't dead but it surely wasn't thriving
SCII was really the only shining star through the ps2 generation. Tekken 4 was crap (or was it 5)? And besides SCII and TK there was really nothing else (unless you actually consider Smash Bros a fighting game)
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:11:08 PM
Mavfan321
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 4:17:17 AM
Scarecrow
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:59:31 PM
So unlike SFIII, it was actually a game which many of my casual gaming friends bought and played back when it came out.
No one I knew back in the mid to late 1990s played SFIII. And only a few after it came out for ps2.
Mavfan321
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 7:02:35 PM
MadPowerBomber
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:22:30 PM
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marcusfrommo
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:28:04 PM
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MadPowerBomber
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:33:25 PM
marcusfrommo
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:33:54 PM
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MadPowerBomber
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:38:04 PM
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:39:40 PM
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MadPowerBomber
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:41:37 PM
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:46:06 PM
Scarecrow
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:21:17 PM
marcusfrommo
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:46:07 PM
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marcusfrommo
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:50:08 PM
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Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:59:41 PM
Oyashiro
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 6:01:01 PM
tridon
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 6:13:04 PM
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johnld
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:33:42 PM
Scarecrow
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:35:53 PM
TEG3SH
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:47:22 PM
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:51:21 PM
TEG3SH
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:27:06 PM
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:34:13 PM
TEG3SH
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 9:02:52 PM
Temjin001
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 10:04:03 PM
TEG3SH
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 10:25:39 PM
johnld
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:24:03 PM
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The thing that bugs me is releasing 2 versions of the same basic game ON A CONSOLE. i mean i can see this with portables like the pokemon franchise although the version differences arent that simple. but to pull this on a console, thats just a cheap cash in. they better not charge full price for this. if they do, i'll be happy to have marvel vs capcom 3 as my fighting game fix for a long time.
Scarecrow
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:25:51 PM
Scarecrow
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:24:09 PM
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They're trying to mix a 3D combo-heavy game like Tekken with a strategic 2D fighting game?
Wouldn't Guilty Gear VS Street Fighter work better?
Realism VS Fantasy? I do realize that Tekken has a lot of fantasy but 90% of it gameplay wise is realistic*
Why did Capcom get DRAGGED into this?
They were probably persuaded by the mighty $$$
Not buying this.
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Excited for the SSFIV update in September though
MadPowerBomber
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:08:41 AM
Scarecrow
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:56:22 PM
That's not a real good reason
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Capcom VS SNK is justified in so many ways. The two franchises live side by side in the fighting world. Both compliment each other world in terms of character designs, gameplay plane, etc.
MVC is more of a party game than anything and is somewhat more justifiable since it's just a bunch of Capcom characters messing it up with a bunch of Marvel characters.
I wouldn't have minded a Namco VS Capcom game. It would have basically been a free for all event.
But when you go for a Street VS Tekken, I men wtf, really? It just doesn't make sense.
MadPowerBomber
Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 3:44:24 PM
It's a unique approach to characters we've seen and loved for decades. That's what it is and that's why I've always wanted it. I want to see what Capcom does with the Tekken characters and vice versa. it's artistic curiousity. In your brain it doesn't make sense, and that's fine. You can't wrap your imagination around the concept because both franchises are "too different," and that's okay, too. But that's not how I see it.
This is, just as all of Capcom's versus series are, a "what if" scenario. "What if Kazuya Mishima existed in the Street Fighter world? what could he do, what would he be capable of?" "What if Ryu existed in a more realistic world without balls of fire being shot from his fists? How would his more realistic martial art function?"
That's the kind of stuff I've been asking myself since Tekken 1 hit the arcades in 1994.
It's going to be different approaches and takes to familiar franchises, which is much more appealing to me than another Capcom vs SNK game PRECISELY because Capcom and SNK's fighters share a lot in common. This is going to be a different creature altogether, and a fresh take on familiar characters, as I've said before. It's Capcom and Namco taking characters and putting them in alternate realities where the physics of their martial arts is vastly different.
Not to mention that both properties have a lot more in common than you think. from gameplay mechanics to storytelling details.
The fit is natural.
Scarecrow
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 9:09:45 PM
Temjin001
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:44:02 PM
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I'm curious as to how they're going to blend the styles of play into each of the respective games. For example, leaping and projectiles aren't Tekken mainstays (granted there's the rare abilities from someone like Devil Jin). Whereas, Street Fighter character's have less of a moves-list (A.K.A "Normals" for SF guys).
I'm stoked!
I just wish, now, Tecmo would get off their butts and do something for the DOA community (DOA5) before they're led to believe that the series died with Itagaki's departure.
Say it ain't so!
Shams
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 9:36:09 PM
By the way, I beat Master Ninja Mode on NGS2 day before yesterday. It was pretty damn hard, with quite a few segments ramped UP since NG2, but thankfully the last boss fight(s) was/were toned down a bit. One grab spells game over, unlike NG2, but if you die on the huge archfiend part, you restart at a checkpoint AT the archfiend, instead of fighting Lord Vazdah all over again. Man, let out such a sigh of relief when that happened.
Temjin001
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 10:06:02 PM
Shams
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 12:21:05 AM
MadPowerBomber
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:15:40 AM
Temjin001
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 10:34:39 PM
One of the reasons I like online fighters is because I can enjoy short bursts of entertainment that allows for me to break away in between fights.
daus26
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 7:57:47 PM
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I've played the previous installments of both Tekken and SF and know their mechanics, and while I'm not too sure yet, I think they can make it work, especially after seeing that 1-up video MadPowerBomber linked above.
Condemnedsoul23
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 9:38:03 PM
John Shoemaker
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:04:00 PM
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MvC3 looks bad. This looks worse.
I wish they would have figured out their 3D fighting game a few years ago. At least that looked good even if they thought it didn't.
I'm not buying this. If the Tekken X Street Fighter looks like Tekken I might.
I've lost faith in Capcom. Resident Evil 5 was bad. SFIV was bad IMO. And them not even mentioning another Devil May Cry game yet is saddening. I just hope Dead Rising 2 is fun.
Mavfan321
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:29:18 PM
Jawknee
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:32:18 AM
Mornelithe
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 8:10:44 PM
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I've been waiting, very patiently, for Capcom vs SNK on the newer consoles. Very, patiently. The fact I now know I'm waiting because of idiocy like this, makes me beyond angry.
Rather than trying to bring two completely different fighting games together, why not something that makes sense? Or is that simply too much to ask? Capcom vs SNK 2 was freekin amazing. My ultimate dream is Capcom vs SNK vs Tecmo-Koei. But this? Just makes me shake my head sadly.
Condemnedsoul23
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 9:36:11 PM
Mornelithe
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 10:50:56 PM
As I said, I'll wait for the next Capcom vs SNK. These games are a waste of time.
Scarecrow
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:50:14 PM
Arvis
Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 9:23:21 AM
Scarecrow
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:49:08 PM
Condemnedsoul23
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 9:26:24 PM
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Highlander
Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 10:32:44 PM
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Lucifer
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 9:43:37 AM
Jawknee
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 12:32:07 AM
kraygen
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:36:24 PM
BTNwarrior
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 12:54:53 AM
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frylock25
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 1:55:23 AM
BTNwarrior
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 9:12:06 AM
Jawknee
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:30:41 AM
frylock25
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 1:56:41 AM
MadPowerBomber
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:31:35 AM
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A long time ago Capcom decided to do these crossover games and pitted the characters from Street Fighter with the characters of Marvel's X-Men franchise. And if you really stop to think about it, it's implausible, unrealistic, and wouldn't work. There's no one in the Street Fighter universe that could do anything to even scratch the likes of Wolverine or Rogue or Colossus or the mighty Juggernaut. Yet, despite this fact blazing in the faces of the talented programmers and designers at Capcom: they made it work. They made it work so well that everyone and their grandmother's pet Pug, Petey, is excited as all get out for Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Now the guys behind Street Fighter IV and Super SFIV have decided to take the more grounded and "realistic" characters from Tekken in place them in the "fantasy" based universe of Street Fighter and make them fight brutally, and people are saying it won't work, that it's an attempt to milk the franchises for all their worth, and it's a waste of Capcom/Namco's time. Yet, as seen in the game play video they released, somehow Capcom made Ryu and Kazuya Mishima clash in the Street Fighter world seamlessly without giving Kazuya a barrage of fireballs, or altering many of his trademark moves (including his classic double-kick to the face throw).
I'm in the minority here, but this is a dream game for me and has been since Tekken 3/Street Fighter III Third Strike, and they're doing it exactly how I've always thought they should. Capcom is doing a game set in the Street Fighter Universe, placing the Tekken fighters in that universe and showing us how they would operate if they had been in that universe all along; and Namco is doing the same with their version of the game. We're going to get the characters we've seen for decades in different lights, in different ways; and we're going to be able to play them in different ways. How people aren't curious to see what the respective companies do with characters that "do not belong in the same universe", is beyond me. How those same people can accept Chris Redfield going toe-to-toe with the Hulk or Ryu being able to fist fight with someone who has a metal skeleton and claws that would tear him to shreds in a heart beat... that just makes my brain hurt.
Mavfan321
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 4:14:27 AM
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Ultimadream
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:49:56 AM
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Temjin001
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:26:41 PM
Ultimadream
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 6:17:10 PM
Temjin001
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 10:30:54 PM
I like FF13 myself, and I was simply pointing out the irony in your comment.
Peace
Ultimadream
Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 5:07:01 AM
I don't have a problem with games being shown at Comic-con, it's the fact that this specific games was shown. I hate comic companys, due to the fact they have no respect to their source material. Due to the popularity rise film and game companies have been taking influence from them, and in doing so they have also disregarded their source material, so now we get garbage like this. Tekken used to be a respectable stand-along series, with characters which had strong presence (Watch the introduction to Tekken 2 to see what i mean) now it's just throwing all that away, wish annoys me so much.
MadPowerBomber
Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 4:05:19 PM
As for the lack of respect for the source material, I have no idea where you're getting that from or why you're laying at the feet of comic publishers. In film, the publishers, creators, and even editors have very little control over how they're comic property will be treated on film. But that's across the board, not just comics. That's the arrogance of Hollywood, and it happens to everything they adapt from one medium to film. Just look at Queen of the Damned and Anne Rice's books.
Crossovers don't damage the original source material. Capcom's versus series has never damaged the original games and has only added to them. This is no different. The strong presence of Tekken's characters hasn't been deminished here in the slightest. Look at the announcement video. Kazuya IS Kazuya. He destroys an inferior fighter in Dan Hibiki, looks exactly how he should look, and has very little respect for other martial artists. That is Kazuya. That has been the dastardly, anti-hero approach to Kazuya since Tekken 1. So... how is Namco throwing away all their original material for the sake of two games?
And if they are, indeed, doing that, they did it years ago with Capcom X Namco/Namco X Capcom. An RPG game featuring characters from both Tekken and Street Fighter.
marcusfrommo
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 4:22:01 AM
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WolfCrimson
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 5:27:25 AM
marcusfrommo
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 4:23:39 AM
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___________
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 5:55:01 AM
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i mean look at marvel Vs capcom 3, people are drooling for it!
i just dont see the appeal with it, i mean people are that connected to characters?
you could put jesus christ, or a douche as a character and i would not care less!
just like sports games, like tiger woods, MJ, and co.
i really could not care less who stars in the game, who stars in the game is going to be the last thing ill consider if i should buy it or not.
oh, well if it makes people happy and capcom makes heaps of money off it than im all for it!
anything that gets me my devil may cry 5 is good in my books!
just please capcom, no more nero crap and bring back vergil!
how can you cut out the main characters brother!?
its like having a uncharted game without sulley!
aaronisbla
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 6:20:25 AM
Likewise, the tekken franchise has a lot of fans, so does SF, if you can't see the appeal of seeing these 2 juggernauts mixing it up, im afraid im not sure what to tell you about this also
Ultimadream
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 10:55:24 AM
aaronisbla
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 6:15:30 AM
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PS3_Wizard
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 4:37:03 PM
ABUrabad
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 7:32:08 AM
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this is a big NO NO for me
u cant mix these both games in a single what ever
.each game has a different fighting style SF has 3 different punches beside tekken has left and right punches with much more more more combos
let all remember what happened with mortal combat Vs dc universe this game was a true downfall of the fighting series
how can u mix both stories
beside that tekken has fighting combos depending on up close contact with the opponent
not like street fighter where u can kick your opponent from far away like using Ryu combos
and what about ultimate finishes and ultra techniques they are only present in the street fighter style game
God help us ,let us hope to see an acceptable game from combining these both different generes
ABUrabad
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 4:06:56 PM
when ever there is Ryu there is Hadōken,Jōdan Sokutō Geri and Shōryū-ken and i can't see these moves in a tekken style fight
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Mavfan321
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 7:03:22 PM
Mamills
Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 7:33:31 AM
Mavfan321
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 5:07:02 AM
KNG201
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 9:08:26 AM
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KNG201
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 9:26:35 AM
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Lawless SXE
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 2:27:37 PM
Arvis
Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 9:31:52 AM
Scarecrow
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:40:29 PM
dveisalive
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 3:56:04 PM
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RX78Zero
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 9:51:08 PM
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But look at it like this, Street fighter was only playable in the arcades, now you could play it at home. It was only in 2d for a while, now its in 3d. It still has that 2d gameplay mechanic, but soon you can play you characters with a 3d engine.
Now, i don't like Street fighter but i'll play it if i come across it. I do like Tekken, which i do play once in a while. Very soon i'll be able to play Street fighters characters in way i'm accustom to, though the use of the Tekken engine.
The way i see it is that Street fighter is evolving by going for the full 3d fighting, while still providing the 2d version at the same time.
Yet there are doubts?
Will you people just stick to what you think you know and let an experience pass you by.
Now answer with reason.
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Mavfan321
Sunday, July 25, 2010 @ 11:07:18 PM
RX78Zero
Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 1:33:23 AM
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I have my attention set on Killzone 3 and look towards more to the future than looking back at the past.
Looks like i tend to expand on things i know little of, ha.
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Lawless SXE
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Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 5:01:17 PM
Peace.