It will be available on next-gen platforms such as the Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, and PC to fully realize the game's potential. Tekken 8 is scheduled to be released between April 2023 and March 2024. I'd rather the story went where it needed to and the slightly convoluted tournament calling happened, than the game became focused on making the tournament central to the detriment of the corporate global warfare narrative they've built up. For this reason, I'm fine with it continuing like this in future. But I think putting the story first and finding a way to fit the tournament into this narrative was the better choice to make. The shoehorned aspect of 'its called Tekken, so there has to be an Iron Fist Tournament' and 'the fighting game roster is there for vs combat, which is what the tournament is meant to represent' has obviously lost out and there are certainly some ham-fisted aspects to this choice. It would be more bizarre to me if devs tried to force more importance on the tournaments, given that corporate warfare has been the driving part of Tekken 6 and 7. Their primary role has changed, but they still serve a purpose in the story. However, I feel like they're still being used in an interesting and believable way as pawns and face-saving PR broadcasts for the corporation putting them on. This is a very round about way of saying: in less than a year we've had 4 tournaments, and it's true that they are becoming less important to the story, as evidenced especially by them being cancelled and it not affecting the plot advancement. Heihachi cancels the tournament as part of this stunt: 1) to show he's truly dead (a similar thing was just done for Jin, after all) 2) because he no longer needs the tournament, as a better opportunity has presented itself to capture Kazuya in action (See Tekken 7, Chapter 10 where Heihachi explains all this). He claims he's dead, so that Akuma moves on to his next target, and sets up his satellite to broadcast the fight. Realising that Akuma is a powerful foe who will force Kazuya to transform, Heihachi changes his plans. After "killing" Heihachi, Akuma sights are set on Kazuya. Heihachi has two very good reasons to launch a new tournament - there's just been one but it got cancelled (presumeably the fighters are still in the country, since this was days ago), he needs to assert his new position as CEO, and most importantly according to him - he wants to tempt Kazuya to come, and force him to expose his Devil side to the world, and capture him in film in the process, thus permanently damaging Kazuya and G Corp's reputation, and restoring the Zaibatsu's image (Tekken 7, Chapter 3). Now we have Tekken 7, set days after the end of Tekken 6, as evidenced by Raven picking Jin's body up in the desert, a scene that directly continues from the Tekken 6 post-ending scene.
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