Bandai Namco has finally revealed the release date for their next sidestepping 3D fighting title, Tekken 7. Originally scheduled to be released “early 2017″, the game now has a new launch date of 2nd June.
Speaking to GameSpot during a press event in Tokyo last week, project leader Katsuhiro Harada said,”We were trying our best to get the game out at that time, to get it into the hands of users as early as possible. We saw some titles–some from our own company and some from others–which didn’t have a very good launch because of a lack of content, or whatever it was, that caused players to bash the product.” His team wanted to avoid the same fate, and decided to continue forward with its original content plan even if that meant the game would come a little later.
He also added, apologizing for the late launch, “Although this is the first time we’ve actually announced a date, it wasn’t always June. It came through a process and we made some hard decisions and that was the result……We’re not going to try and sugar-coat it. We realise it’s not ‘early,’ I’m so sorry!”
Tekken 7 was originally released for arcades in Japan on 18th March, 2015.
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