"Tekken X Street Fighter" has been under development for a long time. While Bandai Namco is busy releasing their latest "Tekken 7", they have a reserved team who is focused in developing their cross-over game with Capcom.

Bandai Namco and Capcom announced last 2010 that their flagship fighting games, Tekken and Street Fighter, will have a crossover game. While Capcom already took off with the 2012 release of Street Fighter X Tekken, Bandai Namco is still developing their part, Tekken X Street Fighter.

Tekken Director Katsuhiro Harada has been developing several projects under his helm. These projects includes the upcoming "Tekken 7", the Pokemon crossover project "Pokken Tournament", the shooting game "Time Crisis 5", the controversial virtual reality game "Summer Lesson", and other smaller projects.

With all these game under his direction, game director Harada, may not have the time for "Tekken X Street Fighter". However, in one of his recent interviews, the director revealed some details in the development of the crossover fighting game. He said that "It's very difficult to talk about," revealing that "Obviously, I had originally planned to release it much earlier than we're currently looking at."

Reportedly, he wanted to make a "breathing room" between Capcom's release of "Street Fighter X Tekken" and Bandai Namco's part "Tekken X Street Fighter" in order to avoid confusion among the gamers. Additionally, Bandai Namco delayed "Tekken X Street Fighter" due to the over saturation of fighting games in the market and not because of the development of the game. In fact, there is a 40 man team working on the whole project. However, with the scheduled release for the latest installment in the Tekken franchise, Harada said that "Tekken 7 will be our big thing for the next while."

When Katsuhiro Harada was asked if "Tekken X Street Fighter" will be released in the next two years, he said that he cannot commit to a certain schedule. However he said that he wants the release to surprise the fans of the game. According to a report, he said that "People have been talking about the game for such a long time that they aren't going to be surprised if you just release it normally," he even joked that he may release it by simply announcing "Hey, you can play it tomorrow," like what they did with Tekken Revolution. In the end the game director said "I don't know if that's what we have planned, but we do plan to have some kind of surprise".

"Tekken X Street Fighter" may not have an official release date but there is an active development team who is working on it consistently under the direction of Katsuhiro Harada and they might surprise their fans on its release date.