Yoshinori Ono responds to Mortal Kombat creator's trash talk.
Street Fighter IV producer Yoshinori Ono has responded to Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon's recent comment that MKVSDCU will "kick" Street Fighter IV's "ass" by saying "bring it on!".
Ono-san issued the rebuke in an interview with VideoGamer.com from Leipzig Games Convention, to be published later today. But he also welcomed the competition, saying that if the Midway published title can convert comic fans to fighting game fans, then "the more the merrier".
AdvertisementHe said: "You know what, if they can turn the comic fan into a fighting genre fan, the more the merrier. If they can kick our ass, so be it, bring it on! We're in the same team as far as we're concerned so if they can do it, great."
The talk rekindles memories from the early Nineties, when Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat were the two biggest games on earth and playground fights centred around which fighter was better.
Currently, Street Fighter IV does not have a console release date, although it is out in Japanese arcades. Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is due out for Xbox 360 and PS3 this autumn. You can get all the info you want from these two titles over at our Street Fighter IV game page and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe game page.
Hopefully it won't be long before we can settle this classic video game argument once and for all.
esque wrote at 22:04 on 26 August 2008
Ed is out of his mind if he thinks that MKVSDCU is going to do better than SFIV. Street fighter always had a bigger fan base and his toned down MK is pissing a lot of people off.
Anonymous wrote at 08:07 on 27 August 2008
haha Fux YA! MK will kick sf ass once again! sf4 moar like sf2 3d m i rite?
Some dude wrote at 22:06 on 19 October 2008
MK is a piece of crap full of infinite and glitches.