Street Fighter vs Tekken: Bad Idea or what!!

My initial thoughts when I heard the announcement. Brilliant lets do this. And so i pulled out my dust covered copy of Tekken 6 and my street fighter arcade stick and started practicing with characters from both game.

As i played both games side-by-side, I had an epiphany. This will not work and not just because one game has 3D movement and the other still is a 2D fighter. But because none of the characters designed in Tekken have moves to counter the most common tactic in Street Fighter, using fireballs for controlling distance and applying pressure. In street Fighter, characters that don’t have fireballs, have some sort of move that allows them to close the distance on fireball spammers, Zangief spin, Guy’s Hozanto etc.

None of the characters in Tekken are designed to pass through fireballs; they are designed for real close quarter combat where controling distant is determined by the reach of a characters limbs. Also, Street Fighter is a much faster paced game where pulling of combos is an art-form. Tekken, any button mashing moron can pull off at least a 5 hit combo something that is a challenge in street fighter, especially when you are using characters like Guile and Akuma.

Also, Street Fighter is designed for brutal speed, where players have damaged at least a controller or two in attempt to key up with the pace of combat. Tekken is based on careful, well-placed counter-strikes against your opponent and then being able to juggle them for as long as possible. The tactics that work in street fighter cannot work in Tekken and vice versa.

Not to mention the fact that Eddy from Tekken alone, has more moves than all the street fighter characters put together.

It would be interesting to see how they pull this off. But I would prefer if the two genre stay apart and Capcom keep the cross-character versus games to Marvel and possibly SNK. (Come on Samurai Showdown. Ultimate Finger-Crossed Technique! GO!!)