Dead or Alive was always more fun and had better characters and martial arts than Tekken or Soul Calibur or Virtua Fighter, the problems were all external and how the games were perceived. "esports" is a cancer on video games and any time a multiplayer game is linked somehow to esports it just makes it worse. Soul Calibur died after trying and failing to become an evo game. Dead or Alive tried to become a competitive game taken "seriously" by esports people (retards) and the result was it had to be banished into gacha tiddy game exile in order for the IP to survive. Now the last remaining 3D fighting game series, Tekken, has literally blown its fucking head off with a shotgun all because esports retards said Tekken 7 wasn't aggressive and exciting enough for audiences. Fighting games are dead. esports waves their corpses around like puppets.