Why is Tekken on its 6th and Soul-Calibur is only on its 4th?

[Onyxmeth]

Seraphic_Sixaxis said:

Onyxmeth said:

I think both are about even is regards to popularity nowadays. It doesn't seem like one has a huge sales advantage over the other. Basically, Tekken was the first game of many to follow Virtua Fighter out of the gate. Soul Blade just didn't light things up the way Tekken did, so they left the series alone for a few years until they could make Soul Calibur on more powerful hardware. Above everything else, it initially got noticed because it was the shining example of 6th generation graphics right at launch. You usually don't get something so damn impressive looking right at the beginning of a generation. It was the equivalent of having Gears of War as a launch title for the 360.

Edit: Correction. I just checked the sales. It seems Tekken is now slightly less popular overall than Soulcalibur.

Wow wait what?! SC is more popular then tekken!? no way... im see'n way more Tekken 6 Advertisements then i did SoulCalibur IV ones, i love soulcalibur more overall since SC2 but only now i like tekken because of 6 because they have more original characters and new ones overall for this game VS SCIV's only new character hild'Gard.

Ummmm...sales don't lie. The more popular a game is, the more it sells. Tekken 6 is currently behind on 360 by a lot for the same timeframe, and on the PS3 it's dead even. If it ends up having better legs, then more power to it, but considering this is a long running series and hasn't made any changes to attract a new audience, you'd expect fans to show up earlier rather than later. I would expect Tekken 6 to fall below Soulcalibur IV overall. What other measure of popularity is there? You think Tekken is more popular because this website is advertising for it? Ok. Dragon Age is more popular than Pokemon because I see more advertisments for it.

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