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Forums - Nintendo - WiiU's Pokken outsold PS4's Street Fighter V at retail in the US, too.

 

Which game do you prefer?

Pokken Tournament 256 68.09%
 
Street Fighter 4 64 17.02%
 
None. 56 14.89%
 
Total:376
Frogger on 16 May 2016
Nogamez said:

As stupid as that's sounds, the wiiu actually has a decent fighter genre audience thanks to smash. Also SNES loyalty maybe would off helped shift a few copies.

Lmao, no it doesn't. It has a decent Smash audience thanks to Smash. It sounds stupid because it is stupid. I love Street Fighter, but it would've died on Wii U. Unless it were exclusive, in which case it would do better for the sales of the two other fighting games on the Wii U, Tekken and Injustice, than it would for itself. Smash is not a fighting game, and Smash players statistically do not play fighting games.

They play other competitive action games, like Pokken.

If Nintendo wants to get fighting game players on their platform, they need an actual fighting game exclusive. Not a party brawler like Smash. Not a competitive action game like Pokken. They need a Street Fighter. They need a Tekken. Or, more realistically, they need Nintendo vs. Capcom. The bridge. Nintendo roster in a fighting game box.



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bigtakilla on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
Nogamez said:

As stupid as that's sounds, the wiiu actually has a decent fighter genre audience thanks to smash. Also SNES loyalty maybe would off helped shift a few copies.

Lmao, no it doesn't. It has a decent Smash audience thanks to Smash. It sounds stupid because it is stupid. I love Street Fighter, but it would've died on Wii U. Unless it were exclusive, in which case it would do better for the sales of the two other fighting games on the Wii U, Tekken and Injustice, than it would for itself. Smash is not a fighting game, and Smash players statistically do not play fighting games.

They play other competitive action games, like Pokken.

If Nintendo wants to get fighting game players on their platform, they need an actual fighting game exclusive. Not a party brawler like Smash. Not a competitive action game like Pokken. They need a Street Fighter. They need a Tekken. Or, more realistically, they need Nintendo vs. Capcom. The bridge. Nintendo roster in a fighting game box.

They do have a Tekken...



Ultrashroomz on 16 May 2016

Guess it makes sense, considering SFV's really poor launch.



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Frogger on 16 May 2016
bigtakilla said:
spemanig said:

Lmao, no it doesn't. It has a decent Smash audience thanks to Smash. It sounds stupid because it is stupid. I love Street Fighter, but it would've died on Wii U. Unless it were exclusive, in which case it would do better for the sales of the two other fighting games on the Wii U, Tekken and Injustice, than it would for itself. Smash is not a fighting game, and Smash players statistically do not play fighting games.

They play other competitive action games, like Pokken.

If Nintendo wants to get fighting game players on their platform, they need an actual fighting game exclusive. Not a party brawler like Smash. Not a competitive action game like Pokken. They need a Street Fighter. They need a Tekken. Or, more realistically, they need Nintendo vs. Capcom. The bridge. Nintendo roster in a fighting game box.

They do have a Tekken...


bigtakilla on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
bigtakilla said:

They do have a Tekken...

I would say Street Fighter V proves a lack of benefits for third party devs to make games exclusive. 



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FunFan on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:

Lmao, no it doesn't. It has a decent Smash audience thanks to Smash. It sounds stupid because it is stupid. I love Street Fighter, but it would've died on Wii U. Unless it were exclusive, in which case it would do better for the sales of the two other fighting games on the Wii U, Tekken and Injustice, than it would for itself. Smash is not a fighting game, and Smash players statistically do not play fighting games.

They play other competitive action games, like Pokken.

If Nintendo wants to get fighting game players on their platform, they need an actual fighting game exclusive. Not a party brawler like Smash. Not a competitive action game like Pokken. They need a Street Fighter. They need a Tekken. Or, more realistically, they need Nintendo vs. Capcom. The bridge. Nintendo roster in a fighting game box.

Such Injustice.



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Nogamez on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
Nogamez said:

As stupid as that's sounds, the wiiu actually has a decent fighter genre audience thanks to smash. Also SNES loyalty maybe would off helped shift a few copies.

Lmao, no it doesn't. It has a decent Smash audience thanks to Smash. It sounds stupid because it is stupid. I love Street Fighter, but it would've died on Wii U. Unless it were exclusive, in which case it would do better for the sales of the two other fighting games on the Wii U, Tekken and Injustice, than it would for itself. Smash is not a fighting game, and Smash players statistically do not play fighting games.

They play other competitive action games, like Pokken.

If Nintendo wants to get fighting game players on their platform, they need an actual fighting game exclusive. Not a party brawler like Smash. Not a competitive action game like Pokken. They need a Street Fighter. They need a Tekken. Or, more realistically, they need Nintendo vs. Capcom. The bridge. Nintendo roster in a fighting game box.

I shall consider myself told 😉



Jranation on 16 May 2016

Oh wow! Congrats Pokken!



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Nuvendil on 16 May 2016
Ljink96 said:
Wow...wasn't expecting that at all. Is SF dying? Or is it more of the fact that the game was unfinished and near unplayable (online) at launch? Maybe a little bit of both. I digress, conglaturations to Pokken! A winner is you!

Almost positive that's it.  Everyone praises the gameplay and presentation.  But the incompleteness and slowness to add more was a huge scandal.  Really not smart for Capcom. 

Pokken is a Pokemon spinoff, which usually do well enough when they have any effort put into them.



LudicrousSpeed on 16 May 2016
Nogamez said:
Really, Pokken outsold SF. Didn't realise that congrats to Pokken. Shame to see a classic franchise struggle though

Eh... is it really a shame though if the "struggling" is a direct result of both their own incompetence and a moneyhat deal to keep it off two of the four viable platforms?