... And I was like, "Really? Are we doing this?" And then somewhere in there you have Street Fighter cross Tekken, which had its own bag of worms. ...
... I'll try this out. Oh, this game's kind of sweet. So generally good for the ecosystem. Yeah, Tekken 7 came out like the year prior to this. But like it got geese and it got Akuma and a lot of those players just hopped on Tekken 7. That game blew up. Right. And the first season of Tekken 7 is looked at as kind of a shrug for competitive Tekken play. But like, you know, as people sort of like talked a little garbage about Street Fighter, like Tekken has had already been like riding the ship and Tekken 7 was like…
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... Under Night and King of Fighters 14, like they got new players offline as well. And I think a lot of that was because people came out because they wanted to play Street Fighter 5 and realized I don't really like Street Fighter 5 that much. What are other people here playing? I'll try this out. Oh, this game's kind of sweet. So generally good for the ecosystem. Yeah, Tekken 7 came out like the year prior to this. But like it got geese and it got Akuma and a lot of those players just hopped on Tekken 7. That game blew up. Right. And the first season of Tekken 7 is looked at as kind of a shrug for competitive Tekken play. But like, you know, as people sort of like talked a little garbage about Street Fighter, like Tekken has had already been like riding the ship and Tekken 7 was like the best selling Tekken game by miles at that point. So yeah, like this is a weird instance of like, you know, a rising tide only lifting every other ship but Street Fighter. Well, I think we can all agree, though, that certainly Capcom as a company, I don't know how many people stuck around as far as like personnel wise, but I've owned it not, but Capcom as a company clearly saw the total rate reception of Street ...