Tekken 7 sales exceed 6 million copies, series total now at 50 million

Harada recently broke the news, Tekken 7 has now exceeded 6 million copies sold contributing to the entire Tekken series now surpassing the 50 million milestone! That is quite the significant achievement so here's the latest illustration commemorating the occasion. Tekken 7 in particular has had a massive run since it's initial debut in the arcades resulting in the game still seeing more content being added into Spring of 2021, so it is of no doubt thanks to the massive support the title has received. Congrats go to all involved and to all the players for continually supporting the Tekken franchise.

Over 6 million sold for Tekken 7 ≫ https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/1310023534421241856

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Long interview: Harada looks back at the 5 years of Tekken 7

It's been a long time hasn't it? Tekken 7 saw it's initial gameplay debut back in the location tests of October 2014, but would eventually 'pre-launch' in February 2015 with an official launch a month later. In commemoration of Tekken 7's 5th anniversary, Dengeki Online talks to Katsuhiro Harada in this enormous single page interview on a wide range of topics. Subjects to expect; Post-launch support for the title, arcade adoption with the online network, collaborations, balancing characters, Tekken's low points, on spreading Tekken globally etc etc. He even explains why a Wing Chun character has finally arrived after all this time. This interview is huge so this page will run a machine translation on the entire thing so don't expect everything to be ad-verbatim, but I say this mostly came out decent so it's worth posting. In case of any inaccuracies, the original source in Japanese is here and prevails:

Dengeki Online Source ≫ https://dengekionline.com/articles/28096/

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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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Tekken 7 Sales Exceed 2.5 Million Units Over this Past Year

[Article Retraction 1/1/18] The original version of this post originally stated that Tekken 7 had exceeded 3 million copies. Upon double checking the source, this has turned out to be incorrect. The actual number of figures sold were mentioned during KawaiiFaceMiles & MainMan's Tekken Talk stream to be over 2.5 million. The thing mentioned in 4Gamer was that Tekken 7 was fast approaching the 3 million mark, not that it already exceeded it. Apologies for the misinformation, the link to the original post has now be deleted.

The Japanese gaming site 4Gamer is doing their brief year-end interview with notable figures in the Japanese gaming industry to give us updates and comments to make over the next coming year. Katsuhiro Harada was again one of the people featured and was able to give us a sales update for home versions of Tekken 7. According to him, Tekken 7 saw over 2 million copies sold within the first 2 months after its launch back in June but that figure is now fast approaching the 3 million copies landmark after half a year. He also mentioned that for this time around, Tekken 7 has seen the most post launch support from the series and hopes to be able to continue updating it and giving the title support for the next year. If you have any kind of requests to make about what you hope to see in Tekken 7 in the future, you can tweet them to Harada directly at @Harada_TEKKEN. You might see some Japanese on his timeline but he says don't be shy to tweet the suggestions in English too if you happen to have them. His notable game and movie for the year happened to be Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Switch) and Atomic Blonde (2017) by the way.

4Gamer (Harada Column on Page #8) ≫ http://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20171225028/

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

[Update] KawaiiFaceMiles & MainMan Tekken Talk ≫ https://www.twitch.tv/videos/211034321

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Tekken World Tour Video Interviews from Gamereactor

The large European magazine & gaming site; Gamereactor, were present at the Tekken World Tour this previous weekend and their on-site coverage from the event have now gone online. Included within are a batch of video interviews with the first two being with both Michael Murray and Katsuhiro Harada as they go into their thoughts of the Tekken World Tour as well as offer some developer insights into Tekken 7. The later videos are interviews with most of the qualified players from the tournament as they all detail their thoughts and experiences from the event. For a more closer look into the world of competitive Tekken, check out all the interviews.

Gamereactor Video Interviews ≫ https://www.gamereactor.se/esports/546003/Har+ar+var+Tekken+World+Tourtackning/

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