Why is Tekken on its 6th and Soul-Calibur is only on its 4th?

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koyotecat on 13 November 2009

Because it's older. Why did you ask this?

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disolitude on 13 November 2009

Soul Cal has always been more fun than tekken.

Street Fighter 4 rapes them both tho.

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dystopia on 13 November 2009

How many advertisements a game gets has nothing to do with how trends have shifted. It's a close call which is more popular. SCII and Tekken 5 we're pretty close in sales, and SCIV has the edge right now (of course it's been out much longer) I think in terms of sales they will be pretty close, but I do also think SC has surpassed Tekken in overall gameplay.

@disolitude: And yeah well Street Fighter is more popular then any fighting franchise.

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Onyxmeth on 13 November 2009

Seraphic_Sixaxis said:

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I think both are about even is regards to popularity nowadays. It doesn't seem like one has a huge sales advantage over the other. Basically, Tekken was the first game of many to follow Virtua Fighter out of the gate. Soul Blade just didn't light things up the way Tekken did, so they left the series alone for a few years until they could make Soul Calibur on more powerful hardware. Above everything else, it initially got noticed because it was the shining example of 6th generation graphics right at launch. You usually don't get something so damn impressive looking right at the beginning of a generation. It was the equivalent of having Gears of War as a launch title for the 360.

Edit: Correction. I just checked the sales. It seems Tekken is now slightly less popular overall than Soulcalibur.

Wow wait what?! SC is more popular then tekken!? no way... im see'n way more Tekken 6 Advertisements then i did SoulCalibur IV ones, i love soulcalibur more overall since SC2 but only now i like tekken because of 6 because they have more original characters and new ones overall for this game VS SCIV's only new character hild'Gard.

Ummmm...sales don't lie. The more popular a game is, the more it sells. Tekken 6 is currently behind on 360 by a lot for the same timeframe, and on the PS3 it's dead even. If it ends up having better legs, then more power to it, but considering this is a long running series and hasn't made any changes to attract a new audience, you'd expect fans to show up earlier rather than later. I would expect Tekken 6 to fall below Soulcalibur IV overall. What other measure of popularity is there? You think Tekken is more popular because this website is advertising for it? Ok. Dragon Age is more popular than Pokemon because I see more advertisments for it.

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disolitude on 13 November 2009

dystopia said:

How many advertisements a game gets has nothing to do with how trends have shifted. It's a close call which is more popular. SCII and Tekken 5 we're pretty close in sales, and SCIV has the edge right now (of course it's been out much longer) I think in terms of sales they will be pretty close, but I do also think SC has surpassed Tekken in overall gameplay.

@disolitude: And yeah well Street Fighter is more popular then any fighting franchise.

Hard to believe it was neck and neck with Mortal Kombat at one point. MK2 possibly could have been a more popular game of the two at the time... Man how midway dropped the ball.

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dystopia on 13 November 2009

Yeah, Street Fighter really started it all though and has remained relevant for so long it's hard to argue that any fighter franchise could match it in terms of popularity. Mortal Kombat just isn't really relevant anymore and hasn't been for several years.

Any really in general fighting games just aren't as popular as they once were, you look at some of the sales figures from the mid-late 90s compared to the last few years and its just not even close.

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Seraphic_Sixaxis on 13 November 2009

Onyxmeth said:

Seraphic_Sixaxis said:

Onyxmeth said:

I think both are about even is regards to popularity nowadays. It doesn't seem like one has a huge sales advantage over the other. Basically, Tekken was the first game of many to follow Virtua Fighter out of the gate. Soul Blade just didn't light things up the way Tekken did, so they left the series alone for a few years until they could make Soul Calibur on more powerful hardware. Above everything else, it initially got noticed because it was the shining example of 6th generation graphics right at launch. You usually don't get something so damn impressive looking right at the beginning of a generation. It was the equivalent of having Gears of War as a launch title for the 360.

Edit: Correction. I just checked the sales. It seems Tekken is now slightly less popular overall than Soulcalibur.

Wow wait what?! SC is more popular then tekken!? no way... im see'n way more Tekken 6 Advertisements then i did SoulCalibur IV ones, i love soulcalibur more overall since SC2 but only now i like tekken because of 6 because they have more original characters and new ones overall for this game VS SCIV's only new character hild'Gard.

Ummmm...sales don't lie. The more popular a game is, the more it sells. Tekken 6 is currently behind on 360 by a lot for the same timeframe, and on the PS3 it's dead even. If it ends up having better legs, then more power to it, but considering this is a long running series and hasn't made any changes to attract a new audience, you'd expect fans to show up earlier rather than later. I would expect Tekken 6 to fall below Soulcalibur IV overall. What other measure of popularity is there? You think Tekken is more popular because this website is advertising for it? Ok. Dragon Age is more popular than Pokemon because I see more advertisments for it.

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Ah i see, nice overall estimation. hard to belive though cause i remember back int he SCII days, all my friends made fun of me because i liked SCII over Tekken 5 and Guilty Gear.

So this is the first gen SoulCalibur Series > Tekken Series eh? its about time, as for the gameplay, in tekken 6 it seems so plain to me, not much effort to it, unless you want to master combo air juggles but meh that takes to much time.

Im'a make a SCIV vs Tekken 6 thread later because of this info now. see what VGChartz likes the most.

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dystopia on 13 November 2009

SCII sold more then Tekken 4, and was just a little behind Tekken 5. So really they have been close for awhile now.

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dystopia said:

Well because Tekken is the older franchise (unless you include Soul Blade, and if that's the case it's 5 to 6, not that different). And even inlcuding Soul Blade, Tekken is still two years older.

This!

Plus, SoulCalibur (DC) >>>>>>>>>>>> Tekken series