Street Fighter 5’s one-year anniversary is coming up in a little more than a week, and with reports of soft sales coming out of Capcom’s Q3 earnings call last week, combined with the fact that many pro players have vocally voiced frustration with its current state of balance, there’s a question on some people’s lips: Is Street Fighter 5 in trouble? Well here’s my answer:
No, no it’s not. Not even close. Put your shovels back in the shed, because there’s no grave to dig here.
Let’s start with the facts: Through the end of March 2016 (that’s six weeks from launch) Capcom shipped 1.4 million copies of Street Fighter 5 to retailers. Last week, their updated “million sellers” page listed it at 1.5 million. Some fast math would seem to indicate that SF5 has only sold an additional 100,000 units since its launch window, but that’s a shaky conclusion at best. We don’t know how much of that initial allotment of 1.4m actually made its way into the hands of consumers, so any attempts to spot trends is a wild guess at this point.
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