Namco has a further four titles planned for System 11, all of which are likely to make the jump to the PlayStation. explains: "When Sony came along we decided to go for a low-cost system-in short, we've left the big arcade stores to Sega and VF2 and Tekken has been sold to smaller arcade centres" . Namco's research section managing director, Shegeichi Nakamura . For once, a home system can boast an identical conversion of a cutting-edge coin-op . Namco took a significant risk in basing its Tekken coin-op on raw PlayStation hardware, considering that it would be competing directly with Sega's Model 2-powered Virtua Fighter 2 . According to the June 1995 issue of Edge: Tekken was the first game to use the System 11, and was initially released for arcades in September 1994, several months before the PlayStation's Japanese release in December 1994.Īlthough the System 11 was technically inferior to the Sega Model 2 arcade board, its lower price made it an attractive prospect for smaller arcades. Tekken was initially planned for the Namco System 22, after Namco heard Sega was developing Virtua Fighter 2 for their new Sega Model 2 board, before the development of Tekken was later moved to the System 11 after the meeting with Kutaragi. Namco's research managing director Shegeichi Nakamura met with Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi in 1993 to discuss the preliminary PlayStation specifications, with Namco subsequently developing the System 11 arcade board based on PlayStation hardware and Tekken as their answer to Sega's popular Virtua Fighter.
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