Tekken is likely one of the most iconic preventing recreation franchises, with the sequence even receiving a Guinness world document for having the “longest-running online game storyline with none substantial growth gaps or reboots”. With Tekken 8 on the horizon, the crew at Bandai Namco have revealed one other main milestone achieved by the franchise – having now offered over 50 million copies.
In an interview performed by Gamesindustry.biz, Bandai Namco Europe’s CEO ‘Arnaud Muller’ spoke on a variety of matters starting from Elden Ring to Little Nightmares. In discussing the upcoming Tekken 8, Muller revealed that the sequence had reached a brand new milestone, saying:
“And then [we have] a really small title known as Tekken 8 which you might have heard of. [Tekken] has offered greater than 50 million copies as an IP, and Tekken 7 offered ten million copies. So, it’s going to be nice, it’s going to be huge. [It] actually takes the preventing style to a brand new stage… This is pretty much as good because it will get by way of making the most effective of Unreal Engine, and with the ability to polish the sport to a stage the place visually, it seems gorgeous. We have huge expectations [for] Tekken 8.”
50 million copies offered places Tekken roughly in-line with Street Fighter sales-wise, and whereas it falls in need of a few of its contemporaries resembling Mortal Kombat and Super Smash Bros. (80 million and 70~ million respectively) it’s nonetheless an enormous achievement price celebrating. It will probably be attention-grabbing to see what number of copies Tekken 8 sells when it launches on the twenty sixth of January subsequent yr.
KitGuru says: Are you excited for Tekken 8? Will it surpass Tekken 7 in gross sales? What is your favorite preventing recreation franchise? Let us know down under.
