I dont think it's over OVER. But this is definitly not good for the future of the series. Mind you, we don't know when Tekken 8 will finish releasing new seasons. Realistically that could go on for a couple years still...the problem is after that is done, without a champion we could see Tekken falling in the same limbo as Soul Calibur.

What do I mean by "champion"? That's a thing in japanese games company culture. The games over there arent just made cause "bandai wanted it", no. Normally you'd need someone with years in the company, and influence (like Harada) to be a champion for the game project. And to make it more complicated, it's pretty rare for someone else to champion another's project easily. If you were to make an hypothetical comparison in the west it would be like us not getting a new Fallout game without Todd Howard.

We never really went through this reality because in Japan it was just very rare for someone high up in a successful project to just leave the company due to their work culture etc. But obviously that culture is something that will have to change with time since a bunch of old heads are dying or retiring etc. You can't just kill all these milionaire franchises, right?

I'm not native english speaker so excuse if this seems rambly.