PS5 Will Transform Tekken 8's Player Experience, Proclaims Katsuhiro Harada | Push Square

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Tekken 8 is skipping a PS4 iteration, if you didn't know, and will instead be taking full advantage of PS5's fancy new tech. And while all aspects of the lovely machine are utilised, it's actually the SSD which will transform the player's experience, and not necessarily the extra graphical muscle (although that helps).

Franchise boss Katsuhiro Harada made some choice comments in the latest issue of PLAY Magazine (thanks, MP1ST), stating that the ability to put players into matches faster is «probably even the biggest thing that’s gonna evolve the player experience in the game.”

Harada has been saying other things we like the sound of, too, and while we still don't have a firm release window, it's starting to look like the next instalment of the venerable fighter could take the series to a whole new level. How excited are you for Tekken 8? Where does the series sit in terms of other modern fighting franchises? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6 will be two games I will be switching back and forth to. I’m excited for both. Throw in KOF15 in there too.

What a year for fighting games. To think we are getting Tekken 8, SF 6 and MK 12 possibly all in the same year is nuts.

@KaijuKaiser tekken 8 isn’t coming out this year.

@4kgk2 What makes you think that? They’ve been dropping trailers like crazy. Wouldn’t surprise me if it releases in fall or early winter

@KaijuKaiser Harada said it not coming this year and the game