Harada: "Taking some effort to review the wake-up system quite extensively"

Famitsu managed to interview Harada after the San Diego Comic Con panel yesterday and managed to get some interesting tidbits about the direction Tekken 7 is going in. In summary the direction Tekken 7 seems to be going in a return to roots and focusing a lot on accessibilty to both newer and core players of the series. The full translation of the interview is below provided by Eventhubs.

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San Diego Comic Con Tekken 7 Panel Archive + Summary

Along with the Tekken 7 extended trailer reveal, Namco also showcased concept art for Kazumi and Lars along with othe tidbits of information about the incomming title. Thank you to TeamSp00ky for streaming the rebroadcast. The archive is embedded below.

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Backdash Cancelling to be made easier in future Tekken Games

Yes. RT @TekkenArgentina Backdash cancelling is too hard. Will you make it easier in future Tekken games?

— Harada_TEKKEN (@Harada_TEKKEN) April 7, 2014

Probably the most blunt answer that you can get out of this topic. No specifics on how this will be achieved but it's something to look forward to in future Tekken games.

Tekken 3 Sold 8.3 Million Worldwide

Just a random, little bit of sales info on Tekken 3 that the series director: Katsuhiro Harada dropped on Twitter that I thought that some might be interested in. In the tweet, Harada mentions that the home ports (PS1 versions) of Tekken 3 sold 8,360,000 worldwide and that 1,400,000 of which is from Japan alone. I think this puts Tekken 3 as the second most best selling fighting game title of all time which is just underneath Super Smash Bros. Brawl. (iirc SSBB > Tekken 3 > SSBM > SF2:WW > Tekken 2)

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Harada on Revealing Frame Data in Tekken Games

On twitter, Kurokuro asked Harada about displaying official frame data into the Tekken games since it would make his job of creating some match videos with frame data much more easier (Knee Kumite). Harada responds with a lengthy tweet that goes into the decision of not displaying the frame data and the implications of him revealing it. It's quite an interesting read but it's all in Japanese so I took the liberty of translating the whole tweet for us English readers.

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