Fighting game aficionados the world over have been asking that one burning question for over a decade now: who would win in a fight, Ryu, or Scorpion?
While the answer for some of us is obvious, this dream match-up of fighting legends may one day soon make the leap from forum pissing contest into virtual reality, if a certain twitter conversation last week can be believed. Ed Boon, executive producer at NetherRealm Studios and the father of Mortal Kombat was recorded having a twitter exchange with one Seth Killian, Capcom community manager and all-around boss of Street Fighter, stating:
“@sethkillian Yes, great catching up with you too. Looking forward to our first MKvsSF meeting. 1st order of business: MKvsSF or SFvsMK.
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While it’s easy enough to dismiss a throwaway casual message like this as jest, with such a holy union between the two most popular fighting series (in North America, at least) being too much for fighting fans to hope for, there could very well be a glimmer of truth in this statement. This is a situation where my head’s telling me not to get my hopes up, but my heart’s telling me to believe. I mean, it was deemed unlikely years ago that Tekken and Street Fighter (the two biggest Japanese fighting series) would ever get the chance to meet in the ring of honour, but Street Fighter X Tekken‘s release later next month proved that wrong too. Maybe once Capcom puts a bow on their upcoming release they sit their lawyers down with Warner Bros’ (the current owner of the Mortal Kombat franchise) lawyers and figure out the legal nightmare that Street Fighter VS Mortal Kombat would assuredly be.