Massive Harada interview covers Tekken's long history, character popularity, technical complexity and his friendship with Yoshinori Ono

Harada is the true Maximum form of Ono. That is all.

I just got into Tekken with TTT2. So many wasted years :(

As far as I can see those two being friends, I also see them as rivals. That's a great feeling between those two.

Any word from Harada successfully getting Project x Zone localized would be great.

@2 1st thing to unlearn, footsies, 2nd, don't jump like 2D games.

@2 I've fallen in love with the Tekken series at Tekken 3, I played since T1 but T3 stole my heart. Then I just made sweet sweet combo love to T5 and never looked back since. TTT2 is a masterpiece and I love that it's getting such a good welcome from ALL parts of the FGC! XD

One thing I like about the game is that the Devs are good people, and they seem to know exactly what they're doing.

"The original Tekken is the reason many gamers bought their first PlayStation."

No, that was Battle Arena Toshinden.

Game Players magazine even called it a "Virtua Fighter Killer", which is a laugh riot.

Birdie pleeeaaaase !

@9 People didn't bought a playstation for any game, they bought it for 3D. Toshinden had 2 months of glory, then nobody gave a f, everyone was on tekken.

I dunno about you guys, but I got the PS for the RPGs.

Xenogears, Chrono Cross, FFVII, Breath of Fire and all that.
Castlevania SoTN was boss too. Part RPG, part platformer.

I was maining VF2 in those days, and no home console even came close to the Model2 arcade. Closest thing was the PC port.

Ganryu is the least popular by a wide majority huh?

No real surprise there. He's known for being an utter failure at love AND life.

@Kenshiro the crazy part is he's my main lol. I love this character.

I have already got myself mentally ready to accept that TxSF will probably come in early 2014 and be on the next generation console. Namco trends to release their Tekken games in arcade and on console a year later. Also, if the game was coming to 2013, they would have already had a trailer or something. They are still marketing and patching TTT2. I do not expect to hear anything about TxSF until after the Wii U version in Japan launch.

Here's something I'd like to know: what motivated him to add a grizzly bear, a panda, a kangaroo with boxing gloves and an utahraptor with boxing gloves... when the series was about human martial artists fighting each other.

street fighter cross tekken got me more into tekken then i already was, i cant wait for tekken x street fighter

tekken x street fighter will seal the deal between the two no other fighting game will be able to compete im looking foward to that plus tekken 7 angel, devil jin and kazuya will have a main part to play after what ive seen in tekken tag 2

At first I wasn't very hyped about the idea of TxSF, but after seeing the great job done with TT2 I'm now quite interested to see how it will turn out. I bet the 3D models will be awesome & knowing Harada the game willl likely have a robust, diverse rouster with a lot of bonus content.

@#9 Ok I have never even heard of that so ide...
But the best Tekken's were 3 and 5(DR), my only hope for Tekken, and I'm probably worrying too much, but I don't want Harada to be influenced by other fighting franchises so much that he tries to "turn Tekken into them." Tekken has it's own rules for creation that it should stick to.

lol @#21 you stated several games for one console XD but he meant most people not you...