I have seen alot of comments about the fighting game genre not being as popular as it used to be, and I think that is only half true to be honest. The 2D fighting games last gen made a big resurgence and had very good sales, considering many of the franchises were dead for a while. Street Fighter IV has sold over 7 million. Mortal Kombat has done over 4.4 million. Injustice outsold new releases of Gears of War,Splinter Cell, and Rayman. Super Smash Bros Brawl did over 12 million and was the best selling fighting game of all time. It's the 3D fighting games that bombed out last gen. SoulCalibur V was a bomb. Tekken Tag 2 bomed. Dead or Alive 5 was a mega-bomb. Microsoft dropped the ball with Killer Instinct big time. Microsoft bought into the whole "digital sales are the future" point of view, and the reality is that even though digital has grown, you still can't beat having your game on the shelf or on sites like Amazon. Their other HUGE miscalculation was not releasing the full game to start. Big no-no for fighting games. If Smash Bros came out digitally with only 8 characters it would be a flop too. Fans begged Microsoft for years for a new Killer Instinct, and got shafted, there's really no other way to put it.
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