Where's Tekken for the PS4?

[lindbergh]

I'm a Tekken fanatic through and through. I play the games both on consoles and in the arcades (yep, I like the competition in the arcades). So, I've been patiently waiting for news about Tekken for the PS4 but the developers seem to be quite mum about it these days. I know that there will eventually be a Tekken release on the next gen consoles. But when will that be? There's a lack of versus games on the PS4 and people who love the genre are in a total drought.

 

[Oberon]

Who knows,we can be pretty sure there will be,eventually.
Also note that I dont think there are ANY fighting/beat'em up games on PS4 at all at this moment.

 

[NuclearDragon]

My guess is Tekken could pop up between....late this year to mid next year in Japan in arcades and a year after that on consoles. That's just going Namco's schedule of getting that first Tekken of a new generation out either the year of or a year after a PlayStation console hits stores and the game hitting actual consoles a year or so after that. Tekken 4 came out in 2001, hit PS2 in 2002 (which was out in 2000). Tekken 6 came out 2007, hit consoles 2009 (PS3 was out 2006). The only exception was the first Tekken which was out three months prior to the PS1 launch.

 

[SpaceTiger]

That's some pretty good estimating. It's not concrete, but 3 generations of a pattern seems valid. At any rate, I think it's safe to say that we might not get back to the PSX and PS2 era of Tekken releases when there 2 or 3 main storyline Tekken games and then the tag series.

 

[yossup]

Tekken won't come out for some time but rest assured, it will come out soon. I think development for this genre is stalling more and more and it seems the trend these days in gaming has been towards gaming genres other that 1v1 style games. I love tekken since I grew up playing such games but they're getting more unpopular.

 

[DjoBoy]

Tekken 6 didn't gain too much popularity, because the fighting genre isn't too much popular these days I think. It might come a Tekken 6 remake for PlayStation 4, but I don't think that will actually happen.

 

[cenarion]

Tekken 6 didn't gain too much popularity, because the fighting genre isn't too much popular these days I think. It might come a Tekken 6 remake for PlayStation 4, but I don't think that will actually happen.

This makes sense. I don't think fighting games have been selling particularly well, unfortunately. I'm not a huge fighting game player (in fact I typically don't like them), but I'm kinda in the mood for a new Soul Calibur.

 

[The Unlosing Ranger]

Fighting games are more popular that they've ever been, just look at how many get released now.

I think it's just not been long enough since Tekken Tag 2 came out (still going strong in the conpetitive scene) and they might be working on Tekken X Street Fighter so it may be a while before we see a new Tekken.

 

[Maou]

I honestly don't think development on the fighting/beat'em up genre is stalling. I think it is something like a very low popularity decline from the fans, not entirely sure what could be causing it thought.

I like the Tekken series, they've always been challenging and fun to play.
I'm sure that, sooner or later, it will come out.

 

[deathbyprayer]

Tekken will come out eventually, I mean its the sole reason why we bought a PS back in the days. But I guess its more on the popularity, but I do hope its in development cause whats PS without Tekken.

 

[frankmarco]

The last one came out in 2012 and in 2013 there was the Tekken Online for PS3 which is a free to play. Let Namco some times.

 

[SpaceTiger]

Namco has a few franchises that could be in the works at the moment--gots to get that Pac-Man out, son--and as its been said Tekken Tag 2 came out fairly recently and is still in competition circles. Fighting games typically don't have that rapid development schedule. A game will come out and you just wait until the next one hits.