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Best-selling fighting games

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The fighting game genre has historically one of the stronger genres selling solidly. The following are some of the best selling.

Software sales

Games

  1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 19. million[1]
  2. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 13.32 million [2]
  3. Tekken 3 - 8.5 million [3]
  4. Tekken 5 - 8.2 million [4]
  5. Super Smash Bros. Melee - 7.41 million [5]
  6. SMortal Kombat - 6 million[2]
  7. Mortal Kombat II - 6 million
  8. Tekken 2 - 5.7 million[3]
  9. Super Smash Bros. - 5.55 million[4]
  10. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse 2 - 5.50 million[5]
  11. Tekken 7 - 5 million[5]
  12. Dragon Ball FighterZ - 5 million[6]

Franchises

  1. Super Smash Bros. - 60.08 million
  2. Tekken - 49 million[7][8]
  3. Dragon Ball - 46.3 million (excluding non-fighting RPGs)[5]
  4. Street Fighter - 45 million[9][10]
  5. Mortal Kombat - 45 million[11][12]
  6. Soul Calibur - 12 million
  7. Dead or Alive - 10.3 million [13][14][15]

Arcade hardware

See also: Arcade gaming
  • Mortal Kombat series – 51,000
    • Mortal Kombat II – 27,000[18]
    • Mortal Kombat – 24,000[18]

Gross revenue

Games

See also: List of highest-grossing video games
Title Gross
(million US$)
(no inflation) 		Release
year 		Gross
as of
(year) 		Ref Gross
(million US$)
(with inflation)[19]
Japan Street Fighter II 6597.4 1991 2008 [9] 14,175
South Korea Dungeon Fighter Online 11,800 2003 2017 [20] 11,800
United States Mortal Kombat 570 1992 2002 [18] 927
Japan Tekken 3 499.4 1997 2012 [21] 910
United States Mortal Kombat II 400 1993 2002 [22][23] 680
Japan Tekken 2 344 1995 2012 [21] 661

Franchises

See also: List of highest-grossing video game franchises
Franchise Debut
year 		Gross
(billion US$)
(no inflation) 		Ref Gross
(billion US$)
(with inflation)
Japan Street Fighter 1987 10.61 [24] 27
South Korea Dungeon Fighter Online 2003 11.8 [20] 11.8
United States Mortal Kombat 1992 5 [25][26] 8

References

  1. ↑ https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2019/191031_3e.pdf
  2. ↑ Reyan Ali, Ed Boon's 12 Biggest Mortal Kombat Memories, Complex.com, September 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ TOP 5 MOST POPULAR FIGHTING GAMES EVER. Craveonline (July 16, 2013). Retrieved on 5 June 2017.
  4. ↑ https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-software-and-hardware-sales-data-from-1983-to-present.2725/
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Dragon Ball
  6. ↑ https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2020/06/18/dragon-ball-fighterz-sales-5-million/
  7. ↑ http://www.twitlonger.com/show/nj1i5f
  8. ↑ https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/358211/Tekken_7_closed_out_2019_with_5_million_copies_sold.php
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Street Fighter
  10. ↑ http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/pdf/explanation/2016/full/explanation_2016_full_01.pdf
  11. ↑ As Mortal Kombat X Arrives, Entire Franchise Reaches 35 Million Units Sold, GameSpot (April 14, 2015)
  12. ↑ MKX with nearly 11 million copies sold worldwide, series creator Ed Boon revealed during a Q&A with Game Informer., Game Informer, VideoGamer (April 4, 2019)
  13. ↑ FY2016 2nd Quarter Presentation Materials, Koei Tecmo (October 28, 2016)
  14. ↑ As of July 2016, the series had sold 9.7 million copies worldwide, Nikkan Sports, (July 13, 2016).
  15. ↑ [1]Dead or Alive 6 shipments top 350,000, Gematsu (26 April, 2019)
  16. ↑ Ste Curran (2004), Game plan: great designs that changed the face of computer gaming, Rotovision, p. 38, ISBN 2-88046-696-2, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TXcWlWkIZ0AC&pg=PA38, retrieved 2011-04-11, "When Street Fighter II′ (pronounced street fighter two dash) was released just a short time later, it sold around 140,000 units, at ¥160.000 (c. US $1300 / £820) each. The figures were beyond massive — they were simply unheard of. Capcom's Titanic wasn't sinking. Anything but. The game was a runaway success in its territory of choice, bringing Western gamers as much joy as it had in the East."
  17. ↑ Steven L. Kent (2001), The Ultimate History of Video Games: The Story behind the Craze that Touched Our Lives and Changed the World, Prima, p. 446, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=C2MH05ogU9oC, retrieved 2011-04-09, "Capcom will not release the final numbers, but some outsiders have estimated that more than 60,000 Street Fighter II arcade machines were sold worldwide."
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Horwitz, Jeremy (July 8, 2002). "Technology: Mortal Apathy?". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/08/technology/08MIDW.html. Retrieved 4 March 2012. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "nytimes2002" defined multiple times with different content
  19. ↑ CPI Inflation Calculator. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved on 2012-02-22.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 List of highest-grossing video games
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 Tekken
  22. ↑ Minnesota Intellectual Property Review - Volume 3, University of Minnesota Law School, 2002 (p.99).
  23. ↑ http://www.deseretnews.com/article/347090/VIDEO-ARCADES-HANGOUT-CHOICE-OF-A-NEW-GENERATION.html
  24. ↑ Street Fighter
  25. ↑ Threshold Digital Research Labs Greenlights Its First Digitally Animated Feature Film, 'Foodfight!'. PR Newswire. Cision (June 13, 2000). Retrieved on January 8, 2017.
  26. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19950501&id=H0RWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3412,181681
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