
Of course, it also provides the savants with an awful lot of stats to pore over and they may already be salivating at the notion of compiling such a comprehensive stack of numbers.

“The ultimate goal of World Tekken Federation is to make the game more accessible by using the stats and feedback as a training aid while encouraging progression through the distribution of service-based achievements, which offer an additional carrot to those taking a lot of stick. This co-operation will happen either passively: through viewing the World Tekken Federation profiles of top players and watching replays of bouts, or more proactively: with more advanced players helping to coach new players by identifying where their game is falling down and advising which areas should be improved. These areas can then either be practiced in offline mode in the Fight Lab or, as Namco Bandai is hoping, in conjunction with other players. The average time of rounds won and lost is also tracked, with a short duration for unsuccessful rounds suggesting that while you’re strong on attack your defensive strategies need work.

For example, it’s possible to find out what percentage of throw attempts made by other players are successful against you, helping to highlight whether the throw break technique should be practiced. “The online service tracks the stats of all of a player’s online battles and looks to provide not only vanity stats (such as the expected win/loss ratio for each character, favourite tag combinations and overall rank) but also more useful metrics that can be studied to help improve performance.
