"But currently the situation is with fighting games, you have Street Fighter 5 that just released - a lot of people are playing that fervently - and there's a large crowd out there waiting for Tekken 7. "When we develop fighting games, we try to keep the core community in mind as well as the wider audience that wants to play these games," Harada told Gamespot at the time. Harada didn't go into why the game was cancelled, but in 2016 he said neither developer wanted to split the communities behind both franchises. Tekken X Street Fighter is officially dead. Harada then bemoans the "wasted concept art", saying: "We wanted to show it but the project died."
Speaking on his YouTube series Harada's Bar, Tekken development chief Katsuhiro Harada discussed the ill-fated project, which was announced 11 years ago in July 2010 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. ORIGINAL STORY 21ST JUNE 2021: Tekken X Street Fighter was "about 30 percent done" when it was cancelled. "For now, we are just waiting for the right opportunity." "However, such a title cannot be moved just for the convenience of one company in terms of marketing and branding, and it also affects each other's development resources. "We are still hopeful that TKxSF will resume development when the opportunity arises," Harada continues. "This is still the status of the project," Harada now says.
So, the intended meaning is: "up to 30 percent of the development was in progress, but now it is still pending". Rather than being cancelled outright, Tekken x Street Fighter is in a "pending state," similar to "pause", Harada said in a tweet.
UPDATE 22ND JUNE 2021: Tekken development chief Katsuhiro Harada has clarified comments made on his YouTube series about the status of Tekken X Street Fighter, insisting the English subtitles failed to properly translate the intended meaning behind the Japanese.