SF2 does not count? Anyways, amazing legs for the game. I'm impatient for the new entry on Wii u. Hopefully does well and can help the console.

There are a lot of elements in Brawl that are not in other fighters such as Street Fighter IV.  Here are a couple of examples.

Air game-  Smash Bros gives you the greatest amount of aeriel freedom of any fighting game (Marvel vs Capcom 3 is the only one that comes close).  In Street  Fighter 4 for instance, you can jump forward, jump backwards, or jump straight up.  Some characters have a super jump, but basically there are three types of jumps.  Once you've chosen your jump, you can use one of six attacks, most of which function very similarly.

In Smash, you have a great deal of control over your fighter in the air.  You can adjust your trajectory mid jump, air dodge, double jump (or triple as the case may be) and control the speed of your descent.  You have more maneuvarability in the air, and you generally have 5-9 attacks which typically serve unique functions.

Smash also has landing lag.  In street fighter 4, your character is able to act as soon as he or she lands.  In Smash, if you land during your attack, you will have a cetain amount of lag. This changes the way you can time your attacks in air, as well as the risk and reward of aerial attacks.

There is also the fact that ledge play is a factor of smash.  Returning to the stage is an element that is generally unique to smash, and trying to get back on the stage or prevent your opponent from reaching the stage is another element to the game and another area to be mastered.

Then of course you have different stages which all add a twist to the game.  Suppose I'm Zero Suit Samus and my opponent is Falco.  Fighting this match on Final Destination is completely different than fighting on Battlefield where I can use platforms to my advantage.  I have to learn to adapt to the stage or lose.

Basically, there is a lot to Brawl (or the other games).  There are a ton of different options, different scenarios to prepare for, and so on.  The people who say Brawl doesn't have depth to it are people who think combos=depth which couldn't be further from the truth.  Muscle memory=/= depth.

damn same could be said with Sonic and thats kinda sad :p

As much as I hate the game, series, and genre, these are very impressive numbers.

That makes 8 Wii games over the 12 million mark, 7 if you discount Wii Sports.

You guys are mean.

Not wrong. But mean.

Damn, Tekken used to be a beast. Series really went down after the PS2.

OT: I went to a party a few weeks ago at my friend's house, we all ended up playing Brawl for hours. This is about the only Wii that still comes out whenever I get together with friends. It's nice to see it sell so well.

I owned Street Fighter II turbo and I don't know if it makes sense to count it as the same game as Street Fighter II. IIRC, to me it makes as much sense as counting Pokemon Crystal with Pokemon Gold/Silver.

But anyway, Street Fighter II is the most important Fighting Game ever, as important as Super Mario Bros or Doom.

Great sales. Im not sure its successor will live up to Brawl in terms of success. Though it will be available on 3ds as well so we'll see.

street fighter is bigger and tekken is declining right now

How can you claim Smash Bros has depth when you can't even do touch-of-death infinite air combos with every character?