Tekken is fun, but I don't think it's that fun. On the other hand, it's more played in Japan and probably the US than Street Fighter considering a lot of people don't know people still play Street Fighter, but you say Tekken tournament and you instantly have at least 20 people show up at the game store.

However as a game, I think Street Fighter is better because Capcom revised their games and made them more balanced and more fun where Tekken games were up and down over the years. Tekken 4 was the worst and its sad cause it could've been really good.

Tekken 5 is almost there but get anywhere near a wall and that's the end of the match: a juggle combo will end you. I don't know about Tekken 6 since I haven't been able to play it yet but I remember when it first came out there were 100% life combos the first week. It's been fixed now but still, just waiting on it.

Also, Capcom doesn't blatantly show favoritism towards any characters strength wise in their games while Namco is notorious for making the Kazama family top tier in all their games, specifically Jin since he's been in them.

Look, if Tekken has big fighting pandas... is there even a question?

GunSlap may be on to something with this panda thing.

I always get the feeling that tekken gets left out when people are talking about beat-em-ups, it's always about DOA, soul calibur and street fighter, which is fine since they're all good games but I really like tekken, but it may just be because tekken 3 was my first 3D fighter and one of my first PS games. Back then I played the shit out of it

Comparing Street Fighter to Tekken is like comparing an orange to an apple. A lot of it just comes up in the 2D 3D debate. I feel like if you want to put up a fighter against SFIV, its going to have to be KOFXII

Tekken fanboy right here.

I have yet to play SF4 yet, but speaking about the Street Fighter series overall, I REALLY dislike having three punches and three kicks. That never made sense to me, and still doesn't. But that's just me.

Tekken makes more sense in knowing which punch/kick I'll be throwing. Left or right, and the mixing up combos feels more natural to me. SF's moves seem to rely too heavily on half circle and quarter circle stuff that gets really old after awhile.

I love the little end fight multiple angle replay of the last couple seconds that Tekken does so well. That always felt more brutal and exciting than Street Fighters end fight slow motion finish.

Character customization, multi-leveled stages, mini games and hidden modes. Tekken just has more to offer imo.

I'm not a fan of any of the more realistic fighters, including Tekken and Virtua Fighter. If there are no fireballs and atacks impossible in the real world, count me out. So, no, I don't care about Tekken. I'm picking up my SFIV Collector's Edition asap.

There is absolutely no way Tekken 6 will be better than SF4.

I've never really liked Tekken, and once Eddie Gordo came along and make it so any jack ass who could spam kick buttons and random directions could completely derail the game, I've liked it even less.

Street Fighter 4 for me.

Sorry for the double post, but I really wish I could have just edited that last one. "tekken offers more in the way of depth and ultimately provides more reward" is what it should have said.

Frowny faces for people who like Soul Cal and VF over tekken :( :(

I looooove tekken. To death. VF is not my cup of tea, and DoA is just plain awful as a fighter.

But as fun as tekken is, it'll never be more popular than street fighter. At least in the US. Hell they didn't even release Tekken 5 on disc. It was dl only. A sure sign that they didn't think it could sell enough units to warrant being put on media.

Whoo hooo, both for me :D

Without hesitation, I'm a SF guy. But damn, you have to admire a game that features someone kicking a panda in the throat.

Street Fighter IV wins in my world.

i like SF more as a fighter. i just like the 2d fighters more(MVsC2,MVsSF,alpha3 ETC.)

but what i liked about tekken was all the other stuff in tekken. like tekken bowling, volleyball. it just added more laughs/entertainment.

I have always been a tekken fan and I do really like street fighter, there both great fighters with different play styles there is no way to say better like you would be able to with SF2 and SF3 (or tekken2, 3, 4, or 5). You could ask what is more popular which would effect the online play making the game better (and that i would say is street fighter). But, in the end my vote for the game that is more fun is tekken.

I hate street fighter I could never pull off those special moves in one go it always took me like 3 times to get it right but by then i was dead anyway, more unreliable than motion controle at times.

Always found the moves in tekken easier to pull off but I'm still not a huge fan of learning the huge strings of button combos for the better moves.

I just can't be bothered with beat em ups any more.

Having played Street Fighter IV a lot already, I can't say Tekken has a good chance.

First, I'd like to laugh at the people who think Tekken has never really been popular as it is BY FAR the best selling Fighting Game series ever made (8 million more games sold than Street Fighter).

Second, it should be noted that these screens are actually of Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion (T6:BR for short) as regular old Tekken 6 will never see a console release. Between T6 and T6:BR, two new characters were added, along with a boatload of costumes and A TON of balancing changes (including weakening/shortening Bound/Wall combos for people thhat complained about them). Couple that with the fact that the T6 arcade version has seen about a dozen balancing updates and you've got what should be a very well balanced fighter.

Now then, I've loved every Tekken that has come out (minus Tekken Advance), but only A FEW Street Fighters (though Third Strike is still my favorite 2D fighter ever).

I've heard both games (SFIV and T6:BR) are completely awesome from pretty much everyone who has played them and as such, why quibble over which is better? Buy both!

I mean, T6:BR isn't coming out til the end of the year and SFIV comes out tomorrow.

@ DinnerTimeNinja

1: agreed buy both
2: your as good at selling fighting games as you were used boats

I've always been a huge fan of both, BUT when Capcom got out of bed walked out on me one day it said "I'll be right back, I'm going for a pack of cigarettes." Sure, I trusted it... I waited, and waited, and waited, but it never returned.

I decided I couldn't let the stab put me down cause Street Fighter was sure as hell not coming back, so I moved on and cheated on it for Namco because Namco was there for me with one great release after another.

NOW, after 8-something years later, Capcom returns from the "liquor store" only to find out I've moved on. Though I'm in a tight dilemma here, I'm siding a TAD bit more on Tekken 6's side, but who am I kidding? I'll be honest I still have much love for Capcom deep down inside and I'm aching to have them both in bed.

To sum this random crap up: There is no winner/loser. I love both games equally, and I'm going to buy both games. BUT, if you had to put a gun to my head and make me choose one, I'd lean a TAD bit more towards Tekken 6.

If I had to choose, SFIV. Tekken is fun, but was never as fun as SF to me.
And as far as 3D goes, Virtua Fighter 5.

I'm loving SFIV right now, but I have my complaints....mainly the terrible graphics. It looks like an xbox game. I don't care about(nor do I buy) the argument that it's the style....what style...bad graphics style?

I enjoy Sf's easy to pull off combos and cool characters. I enjoy Tekken's graphics, but that's really about it. My wife likes Tekken over SF, which I don't understand....she says she likes the characters and their backstory... I think the characters are retarded (That robot guy (Jack?) and a big bear....what?)

I choose SFIV over tekken, but hate the new 'style'.....I'd rather have truely hi-res 2D animations. At the very least tekken already looks a lot better.

I'm a presentation snob

like a lot of other gamers, i played street fighter when i was younger and moved on to tekken when i was older. i think both series do what they do better than any other--street fighter is the best 2d fighter series; tekken is the best 3d fighter series. my preference is for tekken, but they're both good.