If Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice taught us anything, it would be that crossovers always succeed no matter how terrible they are. Sadly, that was not enough to convince Bandai Namco to keep on working on Tekken X Street Fighter.
Speaking with GameSpot, Bandai Namco's Katsuhiro Harada revealed that the 6-years-in-development game has been put on hold.
The first we heard about a Tekken vs Street Fighter crossover was in 2010 when Bandai Namco and Capcom announced jointly that they were working separately on 2 different Tekken X Street Fighter games. The idea was to have Capcom's version play like a street fighter game and Bandai Namco's version play like a Tekken game.
Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken was released in 2012 to lackluster sales which the company attributed to "the large number of other games in this genre that were launched within a short time."
Four years later, Namco Bandai believes that the market is still not ready for a similar game. "With fighting games, you have Street Fighter V that just released--a lot of people are playing that fervently--and there's a large crowd out there waiting or Tekken 7," said Harada. "We don't want to split these communities, so a good window in which to release Tekken X Street Fighter is something that's become difficult recently. So it's on hold for the moment."
