Capcom: The King of Fighters

Capcom is, at the moment, the dominant force in the fighting game industry. There's no sense in denying it, regardless of what style of fighter you may prefer. From their popular Versus series of games (Marvel vs Capcom, Tatsunoko vs Capcom), to their original IPs such as Street Fighter, they're successfully holding a lead that most other developers would die for. But is their position really that hard to reach? Is there a secret formula to Capcom's success that no other developer can copy? Not really, it just takes a little bit a time and listening to a few of your fans to ensure a spot as number one.

[Hardedge]

Other devs do indeed need better online community support. Seems like Capcom's is the best thus far.

[ShawnCollier]

It's amazing how many fighting games they've released.

[Hardedge]

You mean "going to" release? :P

They only have SFIV/SSFIV and TvC so far for this generation if I recall.

[FiftyFourPointTwo]

MvC2 PSN/XBL.

[LordStig]

i think he means fighting games as a whole and yea there is alot.

[Blaze929]

It's just their marketing team and research at work and it's working very well for them. If you think about it, this market is currently being flooded with FPS games and just about every other genre besides fighting games.

What does that mean? A big ass opening for Capcom to take advantage of. The last Dead of Alive was released in 2005. Virtua Fighter 5, 2007? Tekken 6, 2009. No Bloody Roars this gen, Samurai Shodown: Sen sucked. etc

Capcom notices how dry the fighting genre market currently is and they are simply whoring it out while they still can. That's really all Capcom has running for them right now.

Only a matter of time before the other games/companies notice and start pumping fighting games out.

[JDouglasGU]

mortal kombat should give them a run for their money, that game's getting a lot of attention.

[Hardedge]

Let's hope the online's just as good, if not better.

[mephman]

Yea, I've been disappointed with MK in recent years, but I'm hopefully the new one will reinvigorate the series fully.

[XxBarretxX]

lol MK is a terrible unbalanced series that should never be taken seriously

[MASTER_RAIDEN]

lmao AGREED! i think mk should also put out a fightstick and get themselves back in on the arcade scene! they already gave em a run for their money sometime in the 90s but over time things just went south for the mk series. people think mks dead already but ohhhh no its just been resurrected. so capcom, its been 10 years or so but mk is finally back. ready for round 2? ;)

[Eric Cartman]

I don't know, maybe I'm part of a small minority, but Soul Calibur and Tekken and even the old Bloody Roar titles are my games of choice in this genre.

The difference here is that Capcom developed a really good Street Fighter game while Namco's latest sequels were rather disappointing, especially Tekken 6.

[RockmanII7]

You might like Dead or Alive, and the 360 has a demo for it if you have one.

[Eric Cartman]

I like Dead Or Alive (played 4 on 360) but not as much as the ones I mentioned. DOA is similar to Tekken and Virtua Fighter, but it's lacking in the amount and complexity of the combos compared to Tekken. It's not as versatile.

What I dislike about DOA series, Tekken 6, and SC IV is their exaggerated emphasize on sex appeal.

[Baka-akaB]

i dont remember any particular emphase on sex appeal from t6 .... Hell one of the new women chars is a true tomboy , and not in a particularly sexy way .

[Mr Tretton]

I think Mortal Kombat is going to bring some competition. Cannot wait for that game, and I want to see some more footage, BAD

[Baka-akaB]

Quality wise , blazblue is the biggest competition this gen . And maybe , maybe ... maybe kof xiii if they fix their crappy online .

And of course still namco with soul calibur 4 and tekken 5 dr and 6(despite a dissapointing console version on a few accounts)

[unrealgamer58]

Did they really have any strong competition?

I mean up until a couple years ago the fighting genre was limping along.

[Baka-akaB]

3d fighting wiped the floor with them sales wise starting with the psx era .
And well in 2d they still had strong opponents from snk like mark of the wolves , some of the kof . There was also most of all thz guilty gears series those past years .

[Bleucrunch]

I love tekken and I think that when they release the Tekken X Street Fighter in my opinion will be better than Street Fighter X Tekken. Tekken's engine is unique and I love it. But I will probably get both but play the aforementioned Tekken X street fighter more.

[darkdoom3000]

just wait for Tekken Tag 2.

[ChronoJoe]

On the PS3s side Tekken and SFIV are actually pretty much equally popular.

With Tekken at 1.6m sales, and SF at 1.7m sales.

Although that's without SSFIVs sales, but those are pretty much exclusively people who already owned SFIV.

So I think Namco could perhaps, still retain there crown on playstations side. But they need to up there game. Sub HD and lack of game modes let the game down. It needs tag, 720p (and generally looking better overall, pretty sure half the models they used, were reused from DR) it doesn't need a singleplayer. If they want to add a singleplayer make it like Tekken 3s which was a good final fight esque brawler.