Katsuhiro Harada posted on social media to clarify a recent statement he made during a recent interview with Game Business. During the interview, Harada was asked his opinion on the monetisation of official game livestreams, to which he responded that he was “quite interested” in it. Many online took this as a confirmation that Tekken was exploring similar monetisation models for its global competition, the Tekken World Tournament.
Although not explicitly mentioned during the interview, the question was likely referring to the announcement from Capcom that the Street Fighter League, its World Championship finals, and the Capcom Cup will be pay-per-view affairs going forward. According to Harada, his intended message was that he was interested in how Capcom would execute monetisation, not an interest in implementing such models in his own games.
Tekken marketing producer Naoya Yasuda also chimed in, commenting that the key goal of the Tekken World Tournament is to “make the TEKKEN community sustainable, not commercialize it.”
