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Did Street Fighter V bomb?

Yes 391 60.43%
 
No 256 39.57%
 
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barneystinson69 on 23 February 2016

http://www.videogamer.com/ps4/street_fighter_5/news/street_fighter_v_sells_less_than_street_fighter_iv_in_opening_week.html

 

Failed to top UK charts, and according to neogaf, Street Fighter V<23,400 in the UK FW on all platforms (retail). Steam sales are also hovering around 100k, though these are WW figures. Capcom was expecting 2 million sales shipped by March 31st of this year.

 

Clearly sales aren't going to reach 2 million by the end of March, and even if those are unrealistic, guessing from the figure's we do have, I could bet it barely reached 250k WW on all platforms. Now it could have great legs, but given what we have right now, alot of people where pissed at the lack of content. 

 

Sources (neogaf): http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=196204214&postcount=1

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=196204301&postcount=7



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

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AlfredoTurkey on 23 February 2016

No, it didn't. Fighters aren't as big as they were in the early 90's so when you look at unit sales, you need to view them differently.



Jazz2K on 23 February 2016

Killer Instinct started with not much content but got updated since the start of the gen and new people are getting the game every years... the same wil apply to SFV I think.



Protendo on 23 February 2016

Sony foot the bill, it's all gravy.

It is still the best fighter next gen where it counts.



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barneystinson69 on 23 February 2016
AlfredoTurkey said:
No, it didn't. Fighters aren't as big as they were in the early 90's so when you look at unit sales, you need to view them differently.

"Capcom was expecting 2 million sales shipped by March 31st of this year."

 

I also did read on neogaf that the PS3 version outsold it 2:1, though I'll have to look into it more.



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

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AlfredoTurkey on 23 February 2016
barneystinson69 said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
No, it didn't. Fighters aren't as big as they were in the early 90's so when you look at unit sales, you need to view them differently.

"Capcom was expecting 2 million sales shipped by March 31st of this year."

 

I also did read on neogaf that the PS3 version outsold it 2:1, though I'll have to look into it more.

I guess Capcom didn't get the memo either lol. My guess is that they figured they could ship based on IP rep alone and that didn't happen. Social networks have such an impact of games these days that getting away with shipping a hard core title half finished is almost impossible.



MoHasanie on 23 February 2016

We can't say it bombed until we get more sales data and compare that to previous SF game sales.



    

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barneystinson69 on 23 February 2016
AlfredoTurkey said:
barneystinson69 said:

"Capcom was expecting 2 million sales shipped by March 31st of this year."

 

I also did read on neogaf that the PS3 version outsold it 2:1, though I'll have to look into it more.

I guess Capcom didn't get the memo either lol. My guess is that they figured they could ship based on IP rep alone and that didn't happen. Social networks have such an impact of games these days that getting away with shipping a hard core title half finished is almost impossible.

Ok, but how exactly does that refute my point? I'm not saying your wrong, but given what we have, it seems like SFV will not even come close to SFIV numbers (which did 8 million btw).



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

TheGoldenBoy on 23 February 2016

The game's legs will determine that.



hershel_layton on 23 February 2016
AlfredoTurkey said:
No, it didn't. Fighters aren't as big as they were in the early 90's so when you look at unit sales, you need to view them differently.

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