Ever since two prominent Namco and Capcom producers appeared at Evo 2010 in Las Vegas just over a week ago, rumors have run wild about a Namco vs. Capcom game. Game Informer has done some digging and found intel that will please Street Fighter and Tekken fans alike.To catch people up, Namco Bandai's Katsuhiro Harada and Capcom's Yoshinori Ono playfully teased the crowd at the Evo fighting game tournament with some onstage banter (see video below). The most important information concerned a fighting game debut trailer set to go live on Saturday, July 24th during Comic-Con.According to our sources, Capcom will make a Capcom vs. Namco game using the Street Fighter IV engine and Namco Bandai will create Namco vs. Capcom with the Tekken 6 engine. This means that each game will play and look like whichever company is creating it. Think hadoukens, Ultra Combos, and 2.5D presentation on the Capcom side and three dimensional movement, in-depth move lists, and most likely, a playable panda on the Namco side. Ono is rumored to produce the Capcom game, and we're guessing that Harada will handle the Namco end of things.Capcom's done its fair share of fighting game crossovers before with companies like Marvel and SNK, but this could be the first time that two totally separate games are produced simultaneously.
UPDATE: The SNK vs. Capcom series has leap frogged back and forth over the years with SNK releasing SvC: The Match of the Millennium releasing on Neo Geo Pocket Color in 1999, then Capcom released CvS 1 and 2 in arcades in 2000 and 2001, and finally SNK answered with a true arcade fighter in 2003 with SvC: SVC Chaos. There were also some SNK card games along the way.
Be sure to come on back this Saturday to see if our information rings true.
Interesting. I SHALL BUY IT!
NO!
Wow, that's kind of like the Crash: Purple and Spyro: Orange spin offs. I'm interested
I am interested in this
This is interesting. I wonder if they will try to release the same day as well.
HOLY GOD that is AWESOME if true
**** YEAH Im buying this!!
Interesting...
it's interesting that most of the comments here are using the word "interesting". interesting...
I will get the Namco one for sure. I love me some Tekken.
Havent bought a fighting game in years and i think this one might be the one.
ill buy and or preorder as soon as it confirmed XD
I think it's a really awesome idea... but I don't think it makes a whole lot of sense from a business perspective. A lot of people will pick one or the other based on their preferred style of fighting game. I'm not sure many people will actually get both. So they're putting time and money into the production of two games that, put together, will only sell as much as one. They're just competing with themselves.
PASS! I wait till they make Nintendo vs. Capcom.
I'm very intrigued to see how the 2D mechanics of Street Fighter would translate into the Tekken characters and vice versa. Also, if this does happen, I hope they do a bundle of some form for the two games as an option instead of having to buy two entirely separate games.
Kick ass. I'll be getting the namco one... and the capcom one.
cooool.
The article is correct about this being the ¨first time 2 games are produced simutaneoously¨ but I remember a move like this back when Capcom released Capcom Vs. SNK 2 and then Snk realeased SNK Vs. Capcom. The SVC game was a lot like King of Fiaghters in style and I liked it but the technicalities of the Capcom Vs SNK 1 $ 2 are the aspect of fighting games that brings me back to the fight. Don't get me wrong, I like both and still have them in my collection along with Guilty Gear XX: midnight carnival, SF 3, SF Collection, Tekken 3-5, DoA Ultimate/3 and others. I LOVCE FIGHTING GAMES !
This and they should bring in Namco x Capcom State-Side.