Chris Hu said:
Mostly due to the fact that its still in print and has been available at bargain bin prices for most of its existence. The Street Fighter games on the NES weren't available throught the consoles entire lifetime and almost never where heavily discounted and they sold almost twice as much on a console that sold less then 50 million units compared to the 160+ of the PS3 and 360. |
Sorry man, you're cool, but that is a complete misrepresentation. SF2 was heavily bundled on SNES, I know because I was there, I was 10 at the time and sf2 was on SNES bundle for at least a full year. It was bundled when sf2 came out and then when turbo came out, which was 8 months later. SF2 was the first real fighting game on consoles and it was by no means affiliated with any brand per se. Genesis sold 1.6m and snes sold 10m. This game wouldn't have sold nearly as much without bundling. Maybe 8m tops.
And again, Sony has come out and said that most digital versions of retail releases are around 30%, which is massive. Based on the bundling and the unnaccounted digital, I'd say sales are likely much more even.
But at the end of the day, the point still remains that sf4 is the #1 selling fighting aside from smash.
