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oniyide on 16 July 2013
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kupomogli said:
oniyide said:

The people who are going to purchase a Wii U and just a Wii U were most likely not SF fans to begin with. So again makes no sense to cater to people who wouldnt buy the game, and the ones that actually are there are so few of them, it isnt worth it. People follow games, games dont follow people, thats how it works in the real world. SF fans would go where they can play SF, and that hasnt been the case for a Ninty home console in a long time. Capcom knows this which is why they are not even bothering

Are you kidding me?  There aren't as many die hard fighting games out there as you think.  90% of the people who bought Street Fighter 4 are your gaming fans who like games in general and nowhere close to your die hard fighting game fan.  Most people wouldn't buy a console for Street Fighter or any other fighting game, but they would buy a fighting game if it happened to come out on their console. 

A lot of die hard fighting games fans probably bought Tatsunoko vs Capcom as well as a Wii if they didn't already own one.  It's current sales are showing 500,000. Compare this number to vanilla Street Fighter 4 which sold 3.72 million.  Super Street Fighter 4 at 2.15 million.  Then there is yet another update, Arcade Edition selling 510,000.  A third rerelease of the exact same  game sold more than one game, and instead of even purchasing that rerelease people could have purchased the $15 DLC for Super, which most people probably did.  Marvel vs Capcom 3 is showing 2.24 million, while people finally got smart and didn't buy Ultimate after all the SSF4 releases which can be judge by its massive 310,000 sales.

i beg to differ, the people who are STILL playing fighting games are the ones who are hardcore. SF2 sold very well for SNES, thats great but that was also the time when the series and genre as a whole was at its peak. it went down quickly after that as we can see in subsequent, SF releases on the same system. Most of the people still playing these games are fans of the genre in general as the casual appeal died down years ago. Tekken Tag 2 released on Wii U and that didnt sell so hot, and thats even more popular so i dont see why USF4 would do better. 

Im not understanding what the 2nd paragraph means, that just shows me that their is a much bigger fighting audience on non ninty platforms.