Month: July 2016

“Since when did everyone become so knowledgeable about input lag?”

Very succinctly, Katsuhiro Harada stated his point. The long time director of the Tekken series has never been one to shy away from speaking on controversial issues within the fighting game community. When people complained about Josie Rizal, Shaheen, and Lucky Chloe’s designs in Tekken 7, Harada responded with his own brand of rhetoric aimed to silence his critics. And when Capcom, a company whose Street Fighter franchise Harada has credited as being inspiration for Tekken, came under attack for the 8 frames of input lag inherent with Street Fighter V, the man came to their defense.

In an interview with GameSpot, Harada argues that most players and critics were completely unaware of the amount of lag past titles in various fighting game franchises had. He later adds, “I have a feeling people are just prone to being swayed by popular catchwords.” He also stated that he believes, when based on the correlation of the design and the inherent lag, “the actual mechanism is different depending on the game.”

He was also quick to defend his own series, Tekken, from any possible accusations of input lag, stating, “Tekken 7 is the first arcade fighting game to have online play between arcades around the country. It costs roughly $1 per play. Do you really think it would be this successful and well received if everyone was complaining about input lag?”

When later asked about incoming characters for Tekken 7 after the release of Dark Resurrection, he stated that the roster shown at E3 is “not the full one at this time,” but later declined to comment on who might later be included and whether or not they would be released as later DLC.

Source: GameSpot