TEKKEN 8 has had an incredible displaying this previous weekend at Evo, revealing the primary Armor King gameplay trailer alongside a model new trailer, with the sport dripping with content material just below 2 years since launch.
At Evo 2025, Destructoid acquired an opportunity to take a seat down with members of the TEKKEN staff, together with Kohei Ikeda (Nakatsu), Chief Producer and Recreation Director on TEKKEN 8. Katsuhiro Harada, Producer and Govt Recreation Director on the TEKKEN Challenge. And Michael Murray, recreation designer for TEKKEN and the one who kindly translated for each Nakatsu and Harada throughout our interview.
We had quite a bit to ask the staff when speaking to them about TEKKEN 8, however there was one subject on my thoughts that I felt compelled to ask. And that was the potential existence of a Tekken Tag Match 3 sooner or later, and if the staff would think about making it as the subsequent venture after TEKKEN 8.
Harada (as translated by Murray) spoke candidly concerning the thought of creating a sequel to the Tag sequence and commented on the abundance of tag fighters available in the market proper now. “It’s fairly tough as a result of, you recognize, Tag is one thing I’ve at all times considered extra just lately, and [I feel] prefer it must be some form of mode with a TEKKEN 9 or 8 or no matter you wish to name it.”
Upon listening to this, I requested for extra clarification on what he meant, asking if, as a substitute of creating a Tekken Tag Match 3, making it a mode throughout the mainline TEKKEN video games. Murray, translating for Harada once more, mentioned about how tag fighters are standard proper now, however “if we begin now [to make a Tekken Tag Tournament 3] by the point that they’re not standard, that’s when Tag Three would come out” in the event that they hypothetically made the sport.
“It’s most likely a methods off if it had been to occur, and so most likely not in my working lifetime. In order that’s one thing that the subsequent technology can determine.”
In fact, ending the interview, I wouldn’t be glad if I didn’t ask Harada about TEKKEN X Avenue Fighter and preserve the query custom alive. So after all I requested him, and was stunned to get a solution from Harada concerning the recreation.
“It’s onerous to say if that’s even a factor. I imply, it is dependent upon what persons are wanting as nicely. That mentioned, I want to present folks what we have already got. That will be cool if we might do this. We had been 30 p.c into growth, so fingers crossed.”
