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".
He 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