Yeah, he just can’t seem to collect enough neg rep.
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Of course TTT will out sell Capcom fighters(CvS2, SFAC, etc) when Capcom sends out a smaller number copies to retailers to sell. Which is why they become rare so easily. TTT was in circulation for a much longer time than the others, hell it went to Greatest Hits. So it stayed on the stands longer. As for DOA 4, that was the only fighter on 360 available so no surprise that it’s doing better that VF 5.
your neg rep is proof to my arguement that you suck.
I don’t buy the theory that people just buy games at launch and that is why the numbers are so high. When you sell over a million copies, you do so for a reason. There are some people that might like most all genre’s and will buy some of the fighting games at launch, but the game still has to be a good enough game to sell.
Your theories of Capcom sending out less copies to retailers is also weak. No game company is going to hold off on making more copies of a game that is selling well. If those so called rare games you mentioned were selling like the Tekken Tag’s or the DOA’s, they would surely make more copies. There is no reason not to. Those games are rare because very few people bought them, so very few copies were ordered.
Rythm, I also disagree with the theory that fighting games are on the decline. There are plenty of copies being sold of the above mentioned games. The games that have online play have plenty of people playing. There is still plenty of interest. The difference is that fighting games aren’t ruling the consoles like they ruled the arcades. They never ruled the consoles to begin with.
And no, just because I say Less is More, doesn’t mean that “Atari Fighting” is better than all other fighting games. I am saying that fighting games reached a point with the Tekkens, The DOA’s, and The Street Fighters, to where they should have stopped adding things and just kept fine tuning the engine.
Someone doesn’t know anything about marketing.
This is the same discussion again, but I guess i’ll continue before it gets closed again.
“They should have stopped adding things somewhere along the way” is total hindsight, you have no idea when they should have stopped, so how can you even make that point? What if they decided to stop adding at Tekken 3 and never made TTT? What is the common factor in all the series that told them “ok its time to stop”? Unless you can say that, there is no point.
All the games you mentioned were both ‘less’ than some games, and ‘more’ than others. The less and more issue is irrelavant, please stop just pulling it out of nowhere as if it’s an argument, it’s not, your examples don’t support it, in fact they just prove how silly it is.
I think most players will agree that capcom could have fine tuned their engines, but again, thats a seperate point. They could have fine tuned Alpha 2 while Alpha 3 was being made, if they wanted to, one does not prevent the other at all. There are many factors that affect the sales of a fighting game, and this attempt to trivialize them isn’t working.
More like Capcom doesn’t, because if they were dumb enough to think that holding back copies, would end up helping future sales, then they just marketed themselves out of a lot of money.
And it should be noted that most of the rare games they made were released around the time of the death of systems like The Dreamcast or Saturn.
I don’t see Street Fighter Anniversary Edition fetching much these days.
But you and other people are splitting hairs. A bad game is a bad game, so if Tekken Tag Tournament has less than other fighters, but more than a shitty fighter, what difference does it make?
The biggest thing is, outside of The DOA Series, most every fighting game series’ best selling game, is not their most recent in that series.
Obviously they are doing something that is losing fans.
Allow me to add a couple of comments within the list:
And there you have it. Street Fighter caused its own decline, and it had nothing to do with its quality or its complexity (or lack thereof).
Maybe some big, bouncy jubblies would help.
Maybe HD graphics, company support and promotion, and thoughtful online play would help too.
According to the Synergistic Property Of Titties ™, HD graphics, wide promotion, and online gameplay will positively affect the game’s performance in the modern market with addition to titties, but it will never help in lieu of titties. The market is not as interested in gameplay as it once was (if it ever was), and it is only interested in graphics and ads if it means they get to look at tits–lots of them.
Someone end this guy, this shit’s getting boring…
fighter-douche, by reading your lame “excuses” on why capcom doesnt dish out more i pratically simple, “THEY BECOME LEGENDS!!!” basically capcom’s mentality is to make LEGENDARY games so you can remember them, AND the less games rack the shelves, while the LEGENDARY games get sold faster,
because there are few. i mean have you at least saw MvC2 on shelves like tekken is? put two and two together and you get, FEWER GAMES MAKE GIGANTIC PROFIT!!! thats capcom’s plan to begin with, so screw you douche!!!
This isn’t really about whether Capcom’s marketing sucks or not (I can’t really disagree with that), but underselling games in high demand during holidays is VERY common, especially at Christmas. It’s a technique that has a high track record of success.
R. Mika didn’t do much for Alpha 3.
Fighting games have just gone out of style. They’ve kept the same formula and consumers have gotten bored with it. Same thing happened to platformers.
Unless fighting games reinvent themselves, they’re going to stay a niche market.
lol
In that case let me fix the statement:
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Even if your statistics about the sales aren’t flawed (which they are), there is still a problem - your sample population is people who buy these games for console, but your target population is all people who play fighting games…your sample is not representative of all the people that you are generalizing about.
oyg
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Does fighter_guy9999 even play fighting games? I mean, the last thread wasn’t conducive to FGD at all (neither is this shitty thread) and I get the vibe he’s a massive scrub.
