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Did Street Fighter V bomb?

Yes 391 60.43%
 
No 256 39.57%
 
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Chevinator123 on 23 February 2016

Bad press may be hurting sales, they should have delayed it to June with all the missing content.



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tbone51 on 23 February 2016
AlfredoTurkey said:
tbone51 said:

Don't need ssb to argue. MKX is way up. Over 5mil and counting. KI is also very popular 

You weren't gaming in the early 90's like I was. MK, SF2 and MK2 were as big as any GTA game back then. That's what I meant by "not as big as they were in the early 90's". 

I didn't mean it like that. 90s fighting genre was huge. It heavily declined especially last gen. That said it didn't decline from last gen to this gen. That's what I'm talking about. 



Ultrashroomz on 23 February 2016

We'll have to see how things play out, and if the game has strong legs.

With that said, the game's abysmal launch ain't helping it.



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Nem 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.

LOL

Tell that to MK!

 

So, Capcom got what they set out to do. They brought out a beta game for the hardcore players and got the corresponding sales. I thought 2m was about right, but i never thougt the game was soincredibly bare bones. So, they obviously lost the casual gamers.

 

This is actually really bad for fighting games. Capcom will have to release new versions down the line to recoup from this mistake. Its no longer a question of "if". Ofc the content will be fully available from the vanilla version, but repacks will have to happen.



Farsala on 23 February 2016

It "flopped" as much as Halo 5 FW or Xenoblade Chronicles X FW. Eventually legs will decide the "success" of each game.



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tbone51 on 23 February 2016
Farsala said:
It flopped as much as Halo 5 FW or Xenoblade Chronicles X FW. Eventually legs will decide the "success" of each game.

XCX flopped? 



Farsala on 23 February 2016
tbone51 said:
Farsala said:
It flopped as much as Halo 5 FW or Xenoblade Chronicles X FW. Eventually legs will decide the "success" of each game.

XCX flopped? 

"Flopped"



barneystinson69 on 23 February 2016
Farsala said:
It flopped as much as Halo 5 FW or Xenoblade Chronicles X FW. Eventually legs will decide the "success" of each game.

Halo 5 didn't do great, but it still did 1.5 million retail.



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).

Farsala on 23 February 2016
barneystinson69 said:
Farsala said:
It flopped as much as Halo 5 FW or Xenoblade Chronicles X FW. Eventually legs will decide the "success" of each game.

Halo 5 didn't do great, but it still did 1.5 million retail.

And if SFV does 500k FW, it wouldn't be great at all. But it is still more then a lot of games.  So I edited flopped and turned it into "flopped".



SmokedHostage on 23 February 2016

Release an unfinished game, get unfinished game sales.



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