Street Fighter X Tekken shipped with a major audio issue - due to the game's rollback netcode - which would cause the audio to bug out and either loop, or stop playing entirely. While Capcom updated the game to encourage their use, gems never caught on as a major feature of the game. One of the key features the game was built upon, wasn't able to be used initially. Gems were notoriously difficult for the competitive scene to implement because of time constraints, and that lead most tournaments to outright banning their use. Not helping this situation was the lack of adoption of the Gems system, which Capcom would later say ended up being seen as too much of a 'pay to win' approach. Capcom 3's X-Factor, which often featured these mechanics deciding large portions of the majority of matches. Compare that to features like Street Fighter 4's Ultras or Marvel vs. Typically, a comeback mechanic helps to prevent players from running away throughout a match, but unfortunately Street Fighter X Tekken's comeback feature was Pandora mode, often referred to as a 'forfeit button' by many in the community, as it would kill you once time ran out.Ĭomebacks with this mechanic were so rare, we'd feature when they'd happen in a tournament on the front page of EventHubs more often than not, and we rarely ran stories about them happening at all. Street Fighter X Tekken made these style of victories a standard. While time over wins do happen in fighting games and can be hype, they're usually few and far between. Take this tournament for example, which was part of Street Fighter's 25th anniversary, and ended in eight time over victories throughout the top 16.

Time overs were a massive problem in Street Fighter X Tekken. bugs, on-disc DLCġ2:05 - Bad first impressions 2. Capcom 3 (along with Ultimate), 3DS and iOS versions of Street Fighter 4, Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike Online Edition, Street Fighter X Tekken and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure HD.įighting games saw a huge resurgence since the 2009 console release of Street Fighter 4, but the market would be inundated with more titles than it could handle, despite this having happened previously in the latter 1990s, and it being one of the big problems that contributed to Street Fighter 3's lack of success.Ĭapcom had repeated one of the key mistakes they and other companies had made previously, about 15 years prior, by flooding the market with too many entries in the same genre.Ġ8:48 - Launch issues. The notable games from this time frame included Marvel vs. The big problem here is it was Capcom themselves who heavily contributed to this problem.įrom 2011 to 2012, Capcom either released a title or upgraded an existing major fighting game 8 times. Capcom outright blamed there being too many fighting games on the market, in terms of why Street Fighter X Tekken failed to meet its sales expectations.

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