Does SuperSmash Brothers Brawl (SSBB) make other fighting games seem dated?

[Bodhesatva]

Actually, you should reread. I certainly do. That's part of being a knowledgable poster. That's why the edit button is there, after all.

To your main point, obviously both are true. But if you're suggesting that Fighting Games are dying simply because it's stopped recieving support, that's foolish. The games that made the genre huge are all still around; Street Fighter, Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Guilty Gear, Soul Calibur, Mortal Kombat, King of Fighters. All still in production, with high production values.

Clearly, the interest in this genre has declined. Dramatically, at that. In this particular instance, pinning the decline of the genre on decreased publisher support doesn't make sense when practically every major series in the genre's history is still seeing new iterations.

I'm not even sure I understand what we're arguing about here. We do agree that traditional fighting games are a dying genre, yes? They've been in decline for a decade now, and that decline has been consistent and dramatic, with every major series in the entire genre going slowly but surely downhill during that time frame, with most selling 1/4 what they did in the early to mid 90s. Is this something you're seriously contesting? People don't like this sorts of games as much anymore.