NetherRealm confirms its Mortal Kombat franchise has sold over 80 million copies in the last 30 years, and here's how it competes against other fighters.
Don't care what anyone says, Smash isn't a traditional fighting game. May as well call Powerstone and Playstation All Stars fighting games. They're more of an arena fighter /party game.
because theres a bunch of pokeballs and other random stupid stuff on stage that you can use at your advantage and flying ultra super power ball that you got to chase on the stage to get your ougi LMAO.
I mean what it sounds like is they took a fighting game and “added” unique mechanics to it to me.
When I think arena game I think of things like Spawn: In the Demon’s Hand or Virtual-On.
Smash to me is a fighting game, they have fighting game tournaments for it. It just doesn’t jive with me to call it “not a fighting game” because you have poke-balls and platforms or because it has 4 players at once duking it out.
Power Stone I’d consider a fighting game as well. Hell, if you google what it is everyone calls these games “fighting games”. So yea, they’re fighting games…
I'm going to assume you're not part of the FGC. However, I am, and I can tell you that there is a ton of overlap between people who play smash competitively and those who play other fighting games competitively.
Now for casuals, there is a lot less overlap between the two for sure.
Interesting. A lot of these numbers seem off, such as Virtua Fighter, are the numbers including arcade cabinets as well? VF was massively popular in Japan, and the first two games were reasonably popular in the States if for no other reason than the novelty and newness of playing polygonal fighting games. 5.5 million in total, even when taking into consideration PS2 / PS3 / PS4 seems way too low.
Well deserved, MK was the first game I bought when I got my SNES, loved it ever since. NRS have constantly set the standard in terms of single player content and hands down have the best story mode out of every fighting game out there. It's like an interactive Martial Arts movie.
Don't care what anyone says, Smash isn't a traditional fighting game. May as well call Powerstone and Playstation All Stars fighting games. They're more of an arena fighter /party game.
Including Smash Bros in a list of fighting games, is like including GTA in Racing games.
Given the volume of games released, I would say Tekken has sold the best.
80 mil? TOA$TY!
Huh, MK sold more than MGS?