Harada wants to know if you still really want Tekken X Street Fighter

With the announcement of the Xbox Series X and the PlayStation 5 for Holiday 2020, we're nearing the time for the next generation of gaming consoles. The Tekken X Street Fighter project—which was announced back in 2010—is currently looking like it's skipping two entire console generation since the initial announcement. Harada explains that with both Tekken 7 and Street Fighter V currently out with active communities, the opportunity to release Tekken X Street Fighter was made a lot more difficult resulting it its lengthy 'on hold' development status. Given how long we've known about the project, it's kinda slipped from the general gaming public's mind as Tekken 7 has released instead and taken the spotlight when it included Akuma as a guest character. So Harada wants to know, after all this time, is Tekken X Street Fighter still a game you're waiting for? You can vote in the poll he posted on his twitter page right now:

Tekken X Street Fighter Twitter Poll ≫ https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/1205330571880095744

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Tekken 7 to receive full balance update mid-December says Harada

Relaying the word from Twitter, Tekken head Katsuhiro Harada mentioned a 'full' balance update to Tekken 7 is planned for mid-December after the TWT finals. Given the timing of the upcoming balance patch, some are already speculating that this might come alongside the other game additions in Season Pass 3 with Leroy Smith, 1 additional DLC character and the paid Frame Data feature. Perhaps the dev team is back to finish the job with Akuma? I guess we'll find out during the TWT Finals event in Bangkok, Thailand on December 7th.  Thanks goes to the Josie Bot on twitter for bringing the news to our attention. Oh and uh, if you're bad-mouthing Harada on twitter about how much you hate Law or whatever, it's probably a lot better to tweet it in English since using a machine translation can alter your intent lol.

「12月中旬に(TWT後)全体調整予定ありますが」 ≫ https://twitter.com/harada_tekken/status/1199183188536332288

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Harada on The Current Status of Crossplay for Tekken 7

"Don't ask me. ASK 1st party." Says Harada. He continued on in a string of tweets today addressing the main issue that is getting in the way of enabling console crossplay for Tekken 7 which are the 1st party policies in place that the developers have to adhere to when they develop games for their systems. Enabling crossplay between certain systems like PC <-> PS4 or PC <-> XB1 was also shot down because that would be splitting the player base on the PC which they can't do. He didn't say it but hypothetically speaking, the thought of PC players only being able to play with either PS4 or XB1 players does sort of bring the console that is not crossplay enabled down. So for now, people that are waiting on the status of crossplay for Tekken 7 to make their purchase, check out the related tweets on Harada's Twitter account and make your mind from there.

Harada_Tekken Twitter ≫ https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN

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Harada Explains the Season Pass for Tekken 7

The characters & content in the game don't pay for themselves is the quick take on it. Whether the consumer is expected to know the details behind the game's development or care about it is another argument altogether though. Nonetheless, if you're curious and feel like you need to know, here is Harada's explanation on it taken from his Twitlonger post recently.

Harada on the Season Pass ≫ http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1spif4h

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95% of Tekken Console Sales are from Outside Japan

That figure of Tekken console players also don't have access to the game as it turns out. Harada gave a closer breakdown of the console Tekken franchise sales figure with listing Europe > United States > Asia & Oceania > Japan. There's not much commentary to add to this so here's the source from Siliconera.

Siliconera ≫ http://www.siliconera.com/2016/12/27/tekken-series-producer-harada-says-95-sales-come-outside-japan/

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It's completely misunderstanding.
90% of the TEKKEN console version market is West side.
Most of the reques… https://t.co/ohqwPyJYjL

— Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) January 4, 2017