It all starts when Harada confirms that Tekken 8 will benefit from crossplay, this feature that has become crucial and which allows online play between different platforms. A new industry standard, certainly, but which has struggled to take off as manufacturers love their preserves. Harada also testifies to having tried to introduce it from Tekken 7 via a duo of tweets: “During the previous generation of consoles, I had already proposed to implement crossplay (between PlayStation and Xbox). However, for questions of personal interest (and security), they refused each time. (…) Do you remember when they announced to open up to crossplay a few years ago? In reality, they weren’t actively supporting third-party developers…it was very complicated.“
Crossplay? Of course I will.
BTW
When the previous generation consoles were released, I had already proposed crossplay between the two platformers. However, at that time, they were at odds with each other over their mutual interests (and P2P security issue) & repeatedly refused. https://t.co/I8b38YfePh— Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) April 9, 2023
Fists on the i’s
Then it’s up to the rollback to be confirmed. Like crossplay, this technology guarantees the survival of fighting games, especially in times of pandemic: it drastically reduces latency and offers extremely smoother remote experiences. Necessary to keep esports alive through confinement. Here, Harada is much more… acidic. “It’s already installed. There is already everything you want. WHY didn’t we make a big announcement like crossplay? Because people like you would have answered “yes, yes, it’s normal in our time”. So shut up and sit down.“Let’s say it has the merit of being clear.
already installed it, and it already has what you want. The reason WHY we don’t make big announcements like cross-play is Cuz even if we make big announcements, people like you will only say things like, “waaaa! That’s normal in this day and age.”
So shut up & sit the hell down. https://t.co/ZA1ZKMV9gC— Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) April 9, 2023
Come on, to end on a positive note, Harada discreetly announced that a beta would take place later. If, currently, professional players can already warm up the stick on the alpha during very select physical events, the tenor of Bandai Namco asks us to please “wait for the betaopen. It remains to see the dates and receive a more official confirmation.
We are still only doing closed alpha testing at each event, so please wait for the beta. https://t.co/lvmkZjDImX
— Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) April 9, 2023
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