Capcom President Aims for Street Fighter 6 to Sell 10 Million Units - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 May 2023 / 3,287 Views
Capcom President Haruhiro Tsujimoto in an interview with Famitsu reveals the company is aiming for Street Fighter 6 to sell 10 million units.
"The Street Fighter series is our flagship title, so we had no hesitation in investing in it," said Tsujimoto. "Over the past few years, multiple titles in the Resident Evil series have sold 10 million copies, and the Monster Hunter series now has titles that are aiming for 20 million copies.
"Street Fighter V has already sold over 7 million copies, so if we can make use of our digital experience, we should be able to aim for 10 million copies in our next game. That's why I tried to realize everything that I couldn't do before with Street Fighter 6, and that's where I am today."
Street Fighter 6 will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, and PC Steam on June 2, 2023.
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It should manage it. The extra platforms alone (4 vs just 2 for SF V) will help it eclipse SF V's total if nothing else, but it also seems to have more momentum and sales potential in general.
Don't count on me to take part of that. For what I saw, even for free, I wouldn't waste one minute of my life on it.
Good luck with that
Ps5 is not selling that much games
Fighting games don't reach those numbers nowadays and it takes a long time to reach their projected sales!
Smash, Mortal Kombat, Tekken and dbz fighterz is near 10 mil.
Smash is in a different league,
While like I said mortal Tekken and DBZ took a long time to reach those projected sales,
And they will be heavily discounted by then unlike smash selling like pancakes on day one
That is a good number, even though it is an iconic franchise fighting games usually don't get that high in sales from what I remember (perhaps Smash does, but the "niches" from Nintendo are something else).
Tekken 7 did reach 10 million in sales finally back in December, but that took about 5 years. Smash is a whole different beast though. Last reported, Smash Ultimate sold over 30 million copies and it seems like every year there's a new smash clone, so I wouldn't call it niche. It'll probably be higher in a few days during Nintendo's quarterly report.
Well if Tekken, MK and SFIV basically got to the 10M I see it as much more possible, it is just that for as much as I loved SFII, MKIII and Tekken 3 my memory is that fighting games never got to the heights of the newer AAAs since PS2 time.
Fighting games that sold over 10mil are Smash Ultimate, SFII, Smash Brawl, MK10, MK11 and Tekken 7. Looking at Capcom's platinum page Street Fighter IV sold 7.1mil across it's different versions.
All good games for sure. SF VI seems cool but a little to much of the same for me (and I have been like this for a long time about fighting games).
So very close.
Tekken and MK both did 10 million with the latest entries. SFII did too, IV almost so. Capcom just needs a game that isn't as broken as SFV...
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