Kyuu said:
Replicant said:
Bold 1: With "Franchise peaked with Tekken 3 (8.3 mill)" I was strictly referring to sales. Though looking up their metacritic, I see that Tekken 3 was the critical peak as well with 96/100 against Tekken 4's 79/100 and Tekken 5's 88/100.
Bold 2: Tekken 4 and 5 sold less than Tekken 3. Whether they sold more than Tekken 6 and 7 doesn't change that. The franchise was declining in sales after Tekken 3 even with Tekken 4 and 5 being exclusives as well.
Look, you're right in that it's possible for a game to benefit from exclusivity when the platform holder helps to pay for huge marketing campaigns that creates extra buzz and hype. Though with fighting games in general declining in sales, I couldn't imagine Sony being willing to pay a huge amount of money to market an exclusive Tekken 6. For that reason, I think it's reasonable to think that Tekken (as well as many other IPs) benefited from going multiplat.
According to VGC, Tekken 6 (4.39 mill) also sold more than Tekken 4 (3.44 mill) and Tekken 5 (3.87). Tekken 7 selling over 3 mill in less than a year might do the same.
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Vgchartz' numbers aren't that reliable. Pretty sure I heard a while ago of Tekken 5 exceeding 6 million on PS2 alone. T5DR (PSP) added another 2.5M~, and T5DR:Online (PS3) likely sold a minimum of 500k for a total of 9 million+ (Yes, Tekken 5 was dang huge!)
It should also be noted that PS2 got three significant new Tekken entries, effectively hurting the sales potential/legs of Tekken Tag Tournament (a spin-off inflated by launch) and Tekken 4 (largely considered a disappointment) in favor of a bigger combined total.
VGC has the series estimated at 40 million physical copies sold to consumers; that's 7 million below the official numbers (shipped+digital). Tekken 3 is undertracked by 1.4M and Tekken 5 (PS2) by at least 2.1M, leaving about 3.5M across other entries and digital+shipments.
With that being said, I don't think Tekken 7 is the kind of game that would sell better as a Sony exclusive through exclusivity-hype/fanboyism.
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thanks for your input bro :)
