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Kerotan on 16 May 2016

Street fighter 5 has sold 1.4m to retailers as of the start of this quarter. What has Pokken shipped?

 

Vgchartz has Pokken at 0.68 and that's slightly overtracked in America.  So has Pokken really outsold Street fighter?  Maybe in the USA but I have serious doubts WW.



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KLXVER on 16 May 2016
Hiku said:
bigtakilla said:

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

Removing Sony's money, and releasing an unfinished game (in 2018+) on multiple consoles wouldn't neccesarily have been better.
If it didn't do great on PS4 or PC, it wouldn't have looked better on Xbox One and WiiU.

Better make that assessment based on games that don't have problems or controversy surrounding them at launch.

How about Sunset Overdrive?



Mbolibombo 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.

Instead, it died on the PS4 ;)



Ruler on 16 May 2016

SF sold 1.4 Million according to capcom. In what way can Pokken outsell SF?



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Slarvax on 16 May 2016
Kerotan said:

Street fighter 5 has sold 1.4m to retailers as of the start of this quarter. What has Pokken shipped?

Vgchartz has Pokken at 0.68 and that's slightly overtracked in America.  So has Pokken really outsold Street fighter?  Maybe in the USA but I have serious doubts WW.

I was about to mention that. Maybe Europe takes a big piece of SFV's market, and (since the Wii U userbase is so low there) it's very little for Pokken? Maybe it's digital numbers?

In any case, Pokken seems to be undertracked some way or another. It should be much closer, or maybe past, 1 million units by now.



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cutzman25 on 16 May 2016

me and others are just waiting for the full version of the SF5 to be released, I fell for the "let me get it day one" then 6 months later the turbo version is released



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Slarvax on 16 May 2016
Mar1217 said:
Kerotan said:

Street fighter 5 has sold 1.4m to retailers as of the start of this quarter. What has Pokken shipped?

 

Vgchartz has Pokken at 0.68 and that's slightly overtracked in America.  So has Pokken really outsold Street fighter?  Maybe in the USA but I have serious doubts WW.

Taking VGChartz's numbers .... what a big mistake you did there. 

No no, 1.4 million was confirmed by Capcom.



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ZhugeEX on 16 May 2016

Sell in: Shipment from publisher to retail store
Sell through: Sale from retailer to customer

The two terms are not interchangeable.
Also, all units sold in may not be sold through.



tbone51 on 16 May 2016
FunFan said:
Nogamez said:

Pokemons not struggling though.....

Maybe Street Fighter wouldn't be struggling if it was on WiiU, like Pokken.

There are more people playing Ryu on wiiu than ps4 in the US so i wouldnt be surprised



tbone51 on 16 May 2016
spemanig said:
"This puts into perspective which is the bigger franchise."

Are you joking? No one ever had any question which was the bigger franchise.

Agreed. SF is much bigger than pokken (not to be confused with Pokemon)