BeefJack writes, "Soon after Street Fighter IV's release reports came in that arcade sticks were virtually sold out all over the country including sticks specifically created for the game and other brands not specifically marketed for the game...
This lack of arcade sticks may in fact be the reason why Street Fighter IV hasn't sold more copies..."
The Street Fighter series has a long history, but which are the seven best games the franchise has yet offered to gamers?
After Street Fighter II released in in 1991, it caused a fighting game explosion, both in arcades and in home consoles. But, as the decade ended, and arcades were failing, so too were 2D Fighting games. This is how Street Fighter IV completely revitalized the genre.
I'd say Blazblue helped too. Didn't care for Street Fighter 4, but Blazblue was amazing during that time. Sad that the series kind of went downhill after the first 2 or 3 games though.
BlazBlue was the much better, more technical game..and a real 2D Fighting Game after all. But yes, since it was a big name..the characters were still popular and the game itself was good, SFIV indeed helped a lot. However, I am pretty sure the much better-selling Mortal Kombat 9 would have been done without SFIV as well..and that one truly helped to make the fighting game genre in general more popular again.
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The content of IV was severely lacking when it launched. It got better over time.
In the same interview at EGX 2019 recently, Capcom and Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono responded to a fan question asking if there were any plans to bring the fourth or fifth entries in the series to the Nintendo Switch.
they botched SFV so bad, just start over, make a new version with proper single player mode and fully fleshed out with support for all of the consoles this time.
Did you see how Ultra and the Collection sold? We don't need to convince Nintendo of anything. Just put it on the console.PHYSICALLY.
You’re not seeing Street Fighter V come to other platforms besides PC because Sony helped co-fund the game so it’s staying only on PS4 & PC
That doesn't makes sense. Is Nintendo saying that Capcom can't publish the game on the system because it's users don't want the game? if so, that's really stupid of them, because why should they care?
Nintendo isn't saying such things of course.
Capcom shouldn't pass the buck. If they don't want to make more SF games on the Switch, then just say so, and say why.
If they want Nintendo to fund the project, then they are the ones that need to convince Nintendo to give them money.
First of all, Street Fighter IV sold incredibly well. I don't recall anyone ever being concerned about Street Fighter IV's sales until now. Second, when did arcade sticks become so important? I myself would rather be playing with a DualShock controller as in my opinion, arcade sticks are too noisy and inconvenient.
In short, not many people are used to playing with arcade sticks.
Madcatz (Hori?) sales were hurt by lack of arcade sticks
maybe they should blame it on the fact that they couldnt get tons of copies shipped in time. 60 copies among both platforms on launch day for most stores....gimme a break. and the game is still hard to find.
Hurt by lack of costumes ;)
SF4 sales are hurt by lack of arcade sticks...If you're talking about the 360 version as you practically need one to play that game. On PS3 the sales aren't hurt at all because it has a fine d-pad.