For gamers, Capcom and Namco Bandai practically stole the show at San Diego Comic-Con last weekend with their sudden reveal of Street Fighter X Tekken, a fighting-game crossover that few could have imagined ever happening.

"The project began last August, I think," Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono told Famitsu magazine in an interview published this week. "SFIV and Tekken 6 had just come out and the fighting genre was starting to get some life back into it, and so we had a discussion about how to keep this excitement going. As things went forward, we figured that we should probably do something major, put on a real big fireworks show. It was then that Harada [Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada] said he was really frustrated when he saw Capcom teaming up with SNK back in the day."

"Personally speaking, I've been telling people that I want to do a crossover with Street Fighter for at least the past 13 years," added, "I don't mean to flatter Mr. Ono, but I think Street Fighter is seen as the bellweather of the entire genre, the foundation for everything else. It's a major enough title that even people who don't play fighters know who Ryu and Ken are. So, to be honest, part of me wanted to get ourselves on the same playing field as Street Fighter."