{"id":2146226,"date":"2026-09-15T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2146226"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T16:27:10","slug":"former-tekken-director-katsuhiro-harada-says-his-next-game-will-be-a-surprise-but-not-outside-fans-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2146226","title":{"rendered":"Former Tekken Director Katsuhiro Harada Says His Next Game Will Be a \u2018Surprise,\u2019 But Not Outside Fans\u2019 Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Katsuhiro Harada, former leader of the Tekken franchise, is finally revealing some details about his next game currently in the works at his independent development house, VS Studio.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Harada famously exited Bandai Namco<\/u><\/a> earlier this year, leaving his decades-long post at the company as Tekken\u2019s guiding force to make his own studio. A subsidiary of SNK, VS Studio has been slowly building its ranks over the last few months, snagging several former members<\/u><\/a> of Tekken\u2019s key development staff.<\/p>\n

And while he\u2019s been pretty quiet about what exactly VS Studio is cooking up, he shed some light on its current projects in a September 2026 interview with VideoGamesChronicle<\/u><\/a>, and it\u2019s tentatively looking like good news for fans of his previous games.<\/p>\n

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When asked if VS Studio\u2019s next game would be a fighting game, or if the development house aims to be a \u201cgenre-agnostic\u201d company, Harada had this to say: \u201cWhat I can say is that there are some members who I have worked with in the past who have joined the company, but this is purely voluntary.<\/p>\n

\u201c…the title that we are creating has not been disclosed, but as I said earlier, I don\u2019t want to betray our fans\u2019 expectations. The game that we\u2019re developing will be some kind of surprise, but rest assured, it is not something that is outside of expectations,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

While this statement doesn\u2019t affirm anything, it does point to the fact that Harada is making something that is at least somewhat in the realm of what fans are expecting \u2014 and that, to us, sounds a lot like a fighting game. (It’s also worth noting that Harada himself said he wanted to develop a new fighting game<\/a> in an interview with Den-fami Nico Gamer after the news of VS Studio was first announced.) Whether it\u2019s a totally new IP or a new installment of an existing franchise remains to be seen, but SNK\u2019s chief publishing officer, Ozan Kocoglu, says VS Studio isn\u2019t opposed to both making original titles and expanding on their previous works.<\/p>\n