BAKI on Netflix. WATCH THAT SHIT.
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2.9 million units are the reported sales for Street Fighter 5 so far.
Tekken 7 has sold over 3.6 million copies
Dragon Ball FighterZ has shipped over 4 million copies
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 12 million units
Ed Boon is dancing wherever he is
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Responding just to say that you can hit Diamond.
If some of the fucking good balls I have seen on replays and streams have hit Diamond, you sure as shit can. Not throwing shade, you actually care and try whereas a lot of these fucking psychos are just doing refinements of what got them outta Bronze. 
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Idk it really bugs me that SFV sales are slacking hard compared to those games. Street Fighter is a classic just like Tekken or Smash if Capcom did it right the first time then it could be doing just as good as those games or at least better than what it did
Baki is a fuckin trip. Found it to be a little slow in places (a common Shonen problem to be fair) but was a damn fun watch. I love th silly bullshit they throw out.
Looking forward to more of it.
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That is I hope the biggest lesson Capcom takes away from SFV.
It’s a weird game that they say they made for the every man but essentially launched for the hardcore player base and it ended up kinda making neither happy due to the cross section of content and how it plays.
Hopefully with the next game they can tighten some screws and launch with a stronger package so it doesn’t feel like the mainline SF game is basically surviving on lineage.
Apologies for the back to back responses I’ve been drinking while painting. Time for bed.
Every Street Fighter, except 2 and 4 (4 is a bit iffy if they count the AE and Ultra updates as SKUs.) has sold terribly. Alpha 3 was Capcom’s top selling fighter after 2 and before 4. That barely sold over a million. Even Tekken has been selling poorly compared to the older entries. Tekken 1-5 have sold over 5 million each. With that said, SFV was never going to sell more than 4 million regardless of how it was received. It’s a PS and PC exclusive. They also can’t double up sales with “Supers” and the like (Capcom is counting all SFV sales as one SKU).
The optimistic outlook was 2 million after a few months and probably over 4 million by this point with 5-6 million being the life time number. That would have been pretty good considering there is no Xbox version. But instead SFV release with little content. Reviews came in and spread that news. A lot of casuals bought it, got upset and the game got bombed with poor user scores.
There was no way to recover from that. SFV can’t be saved anymore. I do really like playing and watching the game but I want them to move on sooner rather than later. If they can pull it off, try to release SF6 not too long after next gen comes out(which I assume is Holiday 2020).
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want them to rush shit. I just think that if work on SFV characters and content has to be cut short in order to work on SF6 to get it out sooner then so be it. SF6 can have a fresh start without the stigma that SFV is stuck with.
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How would Street Fighter 5 sell 6 million though? With all the re-releases, minus the 3DS version That sold a million, that’s about 3.5 million for Street Fighter 4 Vanilla, Super, AE and Ultra per Xbox 360 and PS3. Probably even less considering there was a Ps4 version (Distributing PC sales with the consoles). There’s no re-release of this game. Capcom is counting AE as a SFV SKU. The updates aren’t being added the way it was for 4. People are ignoring all the double dipping that was going on for 4. SFV is still Capcom’s 4th best selling fighter (Or third) . Funny enough, Infinite is Capcom’s 5th(Or 4th). *I’m going off of memory.
6 million life time is just the very best I think it could have done if it came out as a more complete package with rave reviews. Although 5 million life time when it’s all said and done is more realistic.
Expectations should be higher for SF6 since it probably won’t skip Xbox next gen.
I said that our president is way worse:
Worth mentioning that throughout Europe SF alpha was very hard to find in retails, most people I know that owned it (including me) had a pirated version of zero 3
Is that Australia “had 10 movies on it” Netflix or America Netflix
no other SF entry had a Pro Tour attached to it though (maybe Ultra SF4?). SFV sold as much as it did because of advertisement from Sony and the CPT prize pool. there’s probably more people watching SFV at events then there are people still playing it. give advertisement to anything and it sells. but you gotta cover the costs of advertisement of course.
not to mention the fact those older SF titles didn’t have digital versions at release, relied on magazines for advertisement, and only spread through word of mouth and not something like twitter.
your comparison is not very scientific because you can’t really compare them fairly with all those factors involved. SF2 is the god of sales for Street Fighter because that didn’t have an aggressive advertisement campaign and sold like fire by word of mouth for the most part. people played it in arcades and then told their friends.
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Best Gundam saga, period.
based on a comment from harada tekken reached 4 already.
dont forget injustice 2, that game sold for sure more then sfv too…same as mk11 will do.
thats nearly 3 games during the lifetime of sfv +1 year since mkx released 2015 and all make more money.
sf6 has to be good this time…
People still believe SFVI will sell good.
Face it SFIV sold, cause it brought a decade old series back from the grave, SFV is pathing the way for the next graveyard and SFVI will burry the series again.
not going to happen. despite the “low” sales, sfv is still making money and as long as that happens its going on. sf6 will do better for sure when they do it right this time.
When did they do something right with SFV?
just take a look at the pro tour.