Tekken 8: Director Katsuhiro Harada confirmed the arrival of crossplay and rollback added to a beta for later

The Tekken franchise will receive a new installment in 2023 and Katsuhiro Harada gave us details of what is to come. More info, in this note!

After 8 years since the release of the seventh installment of the franchise, tekken prepares the ground for what will be the arrival of tekken 8. As part of this preview, the director katsuhiro harada spoke with the fans via Twitter where the mind behind the popular fighting video game revealed several new features.

Undoubtedly, the biggest news regarding tekken 8 it has to do with the confirmation of the integration of the crossplay to the franchise. This new trend that unites players from multiple platforms is almost a must in modern video games and, despite the fact that it will be a feature never seen before in the historical fighting gameThe truth is that Harada He confessed that he had already considered the possibility of implementing it before.

“Crossplay? Of course I’ll do it. By the way, when the previous generation of consoles was released, I had already proposed the cross game between two platforms. However, at that time, they were at odds with each other over their mutual interests (…) and they repeatedly rejected it”explained the Japanese producer of 52 years regarding conflicts between playstation and xboxthe market leaders in this area.

In addition, another tool seen in the new fighting games like Street Fighter 6 or titles like Dragon Ball FighterZ is the application of rollback. For those who know the term, this consists of a complementary system intended to generate a little more equality between the different quality of connections that users have by predicting the commands sent by each player in real time, in order to combat the problems caused by delay.

On the other hand, Harada was consulted about a possible beta for tekken 8to which the Japanese replied: “We are still only testing for the closed alpha at each event, so please wait for the beta“. To finish with the news, the director established that there are still no specifications for pc and he even slipped that if you are one of those people who cares about this section, Katsuhiro recommends “play on a console“.

However, tekken 8 will be available through PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X/S and PC via windows. Until now, bandai namco introduced us to 14 characters which are: Jin Kazama and his alter ego Devil Jin, Jun Kazama, Kazuya Mishima (Devil Kazuya), King, Asuka Kazama, Marshall Law, Leroy Smith, Lars Alexandersson, Ling Xiaoyu, Nina Williams, Paul Phoenix, and Jack-8. What do you think of the new features for the eighth tekken?

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