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You still got T7 coming soon, in case if your bored of LR lol

So? DOA5LR is still amazing, and looks better than most FG's anyway.

Likely 2-4 years rough guess. They have too many projects for a DOA game plus the contract with Square's Dissidia for years to come. You can't be surprised if DOA is not for another 3 years.

Tekken is going to finally give them some incentive fortunately.

Will it? Idk if TN really cares, MKX and SF and KOF are out and they aren't really rushing anything.

I can't wait for T7 but I'll still be playing LR, gotta stay fluid and stretched in all my favorite fighters.

That is until people get bored of Tekken, like with TTT2. DB is right that TN has too much on their plate right now to develop a full-on DOA6 to a substantial standard.

TTT2 was kinda bad and a tag game tbf, I'd rather go back to T5DR. But, yeah Tekjen 7 wont really do anything to "motivate" them.

At least we still get new content, most are usually dorment by now.

Team NINJA's goal isn't trying to compete with Tekken in terms of better games (for now). They make the games out of business. They are not going to suddenly say "Tekken 7 will be out in a few more months so it's time for us to make a game." - They are not that crazy to waste funds to challenge a game series from Namco.

Like Kou Shibusawa said from KOEI tecmo regarding KOEI's and TN's gaming development:

i expect that at the very least. lets not forget KT's goal is is kind of ambitious

"the company’s vision of being the “number one entertainment content provider in the world” through “IP creation and deployment”

"We are not slaves, we are game designers! - We make the games because it is fun. We do not make games to compete with another, we don't want people to get the impression of NiOh's goal to compete with Dark Souls because we have same idea from Dark Souls too, if the game is too hard, it is because it is different and we want it different."

^ That same text can apply to DOA even if it isn't NiOh. You shouldn't make a game right away instantly based on what other companies are doing with directions, that is basically going desperate in being relevant when their goal wasn't to be competitive with another company to begin with. Only the Fighting games itself is competitive, not company businesses in making a fighting game.