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Yes, fighting games are nowhere near as popular as first-person shooters or MOBAs right now. 'But sales don't matter if only a few thousand people play them! Their player counts are lower than CS:GO, TF2, LOL, DOTA 2, and other competitive games!'

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Furthermore, MKX and MK11 together match the same number of sales as every Devil May Cry game put together.Īnime fighting games usually don't reflect this, they are usually pretty niche, but a notable exception is Dragon Ball Fighterz which sold approximately 8 million copies, which is comparable to Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 (which is also the second game in an already popular series and two years older).ĭid these series reeeally die after the arcade generation if they're still selling huge numbers? I'd honestly argue that the biggest titans of the franchise are mainstream.

Just one single Mortal Kombat game sells almost as many copies as every Persona game put together.

Mortal Kombat X sold just under 11 million copies and Mortal Kombat 11 sold more than 12 million copies. I'd say Tekken's in the best place it's ever been.ĭo I even have to mention Mortal Kombat 11? Overall Mortal Kombat, is one of the highest selling game franchises of all time with 73 million total sales, but it's still kicking and just as popular as ever, like Street Fighter and Tekken. Tekken 7, the most recent installment, has recently reached over 9 million sales, now being the most popular Tekken game in the franchise. But even if you wanna argue 'that's because they were popular back in the arcades, fighting games died off in the console generation, they are so niche now' Tekken 3, the previous highest-selling game, sold 8.5 million sales. Soul Calibur is in the top seven at least with 15 million. Only Dragon Ball seems to compare with 66.5 million sales in total. Tekken overall is likely the second most profitable franchise for Bandai Namco at 53 million copies, which is higher than Pacman at 48 million and the Tales series at 20 million. With the fourth installment selling almost 9.4 million and the fifth installment selling 6.2 million, Street Fighter is probably Capcom's third highest grossing franchise behind Monster Hunter World and Resident Evil, even making more than double the Devil May Cry series. I personally wouldn't consider fighting games 'obscure' if they are some of the highest selling titles of their developers' catalogue. Actually, fighting games are much more popular than you think. But regardless, that doesn't mean the games below them don't get or shouldn't get any spotlight? Can't multiple things be popular at the same time?Īlthough it isn't the #1 or even #3 most popular genre ever, it's definitely still hold their own in the market, and I'd argue they're in the best position they've ever been since Street Fighter II's release. I hear shit like 'people only care about Smash, everything else is obscure' Yeah, Smash is the highest selling fighting game franchise of all time by far. I always hear 'if fighting games want to be mainstream, they need to do this' 'fighting games will never be mainstream unless they do this' 'nobody likes fighting games because this'.

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