Top Fighting Games per system, by sales

[Emil]

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]

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.

[spudlyff8fan]

This was going to be my next post on the “Less is More in Fighting Games” thread but it was closed. I was just checking out the charts to see if my theory was close, and I think it speaks for itself.
The reason for looking at the numbers is because my original argument was that overall, less is more in fighting games and the games that put too much into it are only appealing to the true hardcore crowd. This is proved by the numbers.

As you can see from my original list, I wasn’t too far off. I had said Street Fighter 2 series, best game is arguably all except the Anniversary Edition which added too much. I said Tekken Tag/Tekken 3 overall for Tekken Series. I said Mortal Kombat 2. And I said Street Fighter Alpha 2 (Although Street Fighter Alpha 3 sold more units on PSX than Alpha 2, so I was off on that one).

All in all, there is nothing wrong with having the hardcore crowd liking MCV2 or Street Fighter 3 over other fighters, but facts are facts. The average gamer doesn’t want so many features in their fighting games, and I think most gamers here would agree that Street Fighter 2, Tekken Tag, and DOA have been some of the best fighting games overall.

I don’t think you can say that those games would have been better or more appealing if they had 52-Hit Super Combos, Multiple ISM’s, Infinite Air Juggles, or 50 Playable Characters.

So there is the proof to support my argument.

You moron. All those games past the SNES/Genesis were frickin launch titles (or DOA, which just plain wins by default). That’s why all those games sold like the hos on the Rutgers WNCAA team. Every launch title ever sells like 2 million copies.

Somebody lock this garbage.

[Kuenai]

I’m not even going to add to the arguent against you.

Take some advice with you as your thread dies:
-leave the forum for a while and get yourself a new screen name to LURK with for a while

• Get to know what the real good games for you are (there’s going to be a crowd that you fit right into)
  -come back and post up in already existing forums without arguing for a while.
  -earn new respect with well thought-out posts and a drive to become a better player

Making your own thread (especially such a stupid one) as such a newbie is going to get a hostile response here

[DS]

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.

No. Doesn’t work that way. DoA always sold because it was released during a launch season. It was mainly purchased for graphics(by the average gamer). Same goes for CvS2(sans graphics whore reason) and MvC1 for the Dreamcast. And another thing: Capcom, or any other fighting game developer, didn’t really care as much about console sales because a majority of their income was from the arcades when they were still around. Why do you think fighting games on consoles are rare in Japan? No one plays console fighters. Everyone is in the arcade. And that’s how it was for us back in the day. That, and if you want to factor in hardware limitations on home consoles.

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.

Did you know the demand for AE and SFAA was pretty high? The game was fairly hard to find. Same goes for CCC2(mainly for the ST port). But, guess what? Capcom didn’t ship out as many copies because they knew the interest for these old games were no longer there.

You do realize that they throw out a projected number of sales BEFORE they ship the product out, right? Games like SFAA, AE, and CCC2 had low print runs because they weren’t expected to sell well.

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.

Who gives a shit about the old games? It’s all about the new games and bringing those to America and not leaving them stuck in Japan. That’s the problem with the fighting game scene right now.

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.

Adding things? Fine tuning the engine? Fuck is you talking about? You keep dropping the names, but you don’t go any deeper than that.