Home system units sold don't tell the whole story. Revenue wise, SFII is still by far and away the biggest fighting game of all time, due to arcades. Top 5 highest grossing game of all time till this day.
Does anyone have these numbers purely for Coin-Op ? Like what's the total weight in coinage globally fed into a Street Fighter 2 cab Vs every other cab ever ?
it's always so funny being reminded of how mega man 2, street fighter 2 and resident evil 2 remake are the best selling games in their respective franchises. the masses love capcom games with the number 2 in their title
The indie fighting game that’s in my head that I’ll never make should have been #1 (it includes Cave Story, Shovel Knight, TBOI, Rivals of Aether, and Marine the Raccoon as a guest character)
Lol, that's why I said of the decade not of all time. But I should clarify : I called it the worst mk of the decade, but this doesn't mean it's completely trash, instead I mean, it's the least interesting when compared to it's predecessors and successor
I don't even think they have solid sales data published on those. Those ones and +R are definitely more on the hardcore side. Seems like Reload and the PS2 releases certainly were fairly popular around fighting fans of the era but not exactly maninstream.
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For how much the Smash community hates Brawl, it done damn well for it's time
SF6, Tekken 8 & MK1 will join this list later next year
Also SF5 doesn't really count as you really combing 3 different versions sales into one, might do this for SF4
Smash bros is the best fighting game ever :D
2 MKs
2 Tekkens
And 1 each of DBZ & Naruto….
But 3 - THREE - Smash Bros.
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Feels bad man.
The longevity of it...
i remember all that lol
I wish they would've brought back Smash Run for Ultimate