I don't know where you heard this. You are severely misinformed. Especially in regard to Soul Calibur 4. That Soul Calibur series doesn't touch the top of the genre. Soul Calibur was excellent. Soul Calibur 2 was very good. Soul Calibur 3 was the worst in the series and SC4, while better than 3 is hardly more than above average. I own SC4, after about two weeks. No one of my friends list, myself included was playing the game. It was severely lacking. If there is a Soul Calibur 5, Namco needs to go back to the drawing board. They seemed to have forgotten the magic that made SC1 and SC2 so enjoyable.

Despite all of the complaining about the slighting of Street Fighter 3 and its cast. Even the majority SF3 fans, myself included enjoy Street Fighter IV. My roommate hasn't bought a Street Fighter game since Special Championship Edition on Sega Genesis and he bought the game. Street Fighter IV isn't perfect but its damned good. The game has great balance. If you know a character well enough you can win. Even Dan is useful in SFIV.

The only real issue I have is that they should adopt some of HD Remix's online feature. Not being able to see who your opponent is selecting, being able to have more than 2 people in your lobby, and penalizing people who disconnect. I've only had that happen to me a few times, I hear others have been less fortunate with disconnects.

That shouldn't be a reason to stop the masses from buying it.  They wouldn't know.

I agree with others here that Seth can be annoying, specially the teleports, yes.  He is far from impossible to beat though, in fact the first round is ridiculous.  They didn't choose the best final boss I feel, still it doesn't ruin the game in my view.

It's doing alright, it's sold 1.12 million combined on Xbox 360 and PS3. I expect that to be near 1.5 million by the end of the month and 2 million sometime in May. And if it has any legs at all (and it doesn't have to be Wii legs either), it should have no problem hitting 3 million before the year is over and 4 million is very possible, if not likely.

Playing it online is far from perfect. It's hard to always find a match online that's why I prefer playing arcade and accepting challenges. Also, as with many games I'm sure you have people talking crap which I think is pathetic. "Congratulations that you're better than me because you're a 40 year old virgin with no job or social life and have plenty of time for perfecting your skills", I tell 'em. And on the other, you have sore losers who won't accept their loss and quit just before the match is over. One player had the nerve to write in his bio on how he'll destroy you in SF4. I saw that moments after I just handed him his ass and "lost his connection" a second or two before I would deliver the death blow.

Stuff like that and the trash talkers are almost enough to turn me off from online gaming. Thankfully, there are a lot of cool people playing the game.

 Huh? there is an EASIEST difficulty setting. In this difficulty opponents take every hit openly and are rarely a threat since they barely attack (and absolutely never use Super or Ultra techs). The last boss can easily be defeated with crouching strong kicks, he will take them everytime, some strong low attacks also hit a lot (i.e. long Dhalsim arms). If you can't obliterate that game in that difficulty...I'm even afraid to think of the games you must play, but obviously people that are helpelessly inept for action games shouldn't even consider buying ANY fighting game.

i saw it advertised here on all the "Man" networks, like Spike, during WWE Smackdown, BET, UPN, and ESPN.

@Signalstar

My best friend hadn't played Street Fighter since he had Special Championship on Genesis and he was able to beat Seth. I beat the game on Hardest. Third Strike's Gill is far more difficult to beat than Seth.

your friends are a lot different from mine. Till today, at least one of my friends is playing sc4 when I log on to the psn. SF4 has its flaws as well i.e LACK OF A LOBBY SYSTEM and no penalty for disconnects. Add some of the most overpriced dlc to ship on the disc ever and you have the full picture. I still love the game but I think I actually prefer sc4. I have logged on over a month of sc4 online and I'm already tired of playing sf4 after only about 64 online matches. It could also be the times when each game came out since when I was playing sc4 the only other online game I was playing was cod4 but it was already aging but as soon as kz2 released, I haven't played sf4 since.

@Pristine20

My friends list is pretty varied. It's still anecdotal of course but I like having friends with varied taste. I have friends from Europe that are 5 or 6 hours ahead of me and friends from the West Coast that are 3 hours behind. It's haven't seen anyone play SCIV in ages. I still see people playing the usual games like Halo 3, Gears of War 1, Gears of War 2, CoD4, CODWaW, GTAIV (usually The Lost and the Damned), and SFIV. I've seen my friends playing older or less popular games like Lost Odyssey, The Last Remnant, Culdept Saga, Tales of Vesperia...hell one of my friend swas playing Infinite Undiscovery last week.

Part of the reason I picked up SCIV is because so many of my friends did. After a couple weeks few of them were on line. I got tired of the laggy online play against strangers and unbalanced characters, so I put SCIV back on the shelf. Soul Calibur used to be my favorite 3D fighter but the flash over substance route Namco has taken has robbed series of elite status in my view.

this is overreaction central. the game has sold over a million combined units in under 4 full weeks.
Sure, it's not selling well in Japan but NOTHING on the ps3 or 360 sells well in Japan. Look at the numbers, MGS 4 is the highest seller on the ps3 and it's welllllllll short of a million copies sold.

The problem I'm having with Street Fighter IV is that I feel I've got to focus more on doing my special moves correctly than on actually fighting. Moves in Tekken are very simple (except for King's and Nina's chain grabs which are ridiculous) and that lets you focus on anticipating/countering your opponent. Same thing goes for Brawl.

For me, trying to do a super or ultra move in the heat of battle will result in me doing a very punishable cannon spike half a screen away from my opponent.