Dead or Alive fans wanted bigger breasts

While the Dead or Alive series has somewhat of a cult following, the franchise does receive a lot of criticism for being relatively over-sexualised.

Team Ninja managed to tone down the sexuality in their latest offering, Dead or Alive 5, despite the fans not being so happy with the more conservative changes.

“We were getting feedback from the overseas offices to tone down the sexuality — to tone down the sexiness of the game, and of the characters,” said game director Yohei Shimbori.

“We actually got a lot of feedback from people who were playing it, saying, ‘We want bigger breasts. Make the characters more like that.’ That was kind of surprising.”

Shimbori added that fan feedback hasn’t changed much over the years, as players still want entertaining characters, diverse stages, balanced gameplay, and apparently large breasts.

“There’s definitely still room for having sexualized aspects, if you have a solid fighting game system there, there’s nothing wrong with having beautiful characters as a layer on top of that – that’s another layer of entertainment that there’s a need for. If there wasn’t a need for it, people wouldn’t have responded to the alpha demo like they did, and send us feedback.”