Street Fighter 6 Now on 4 Million Gross sales, Matching Mortal Kombat 1
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Street Fighter 6 Now on 4 Million Gross sales, Matching Mortal Kombat 1

Street Fighter 6 has now bought over 4 million copies, Capcom has introduced. The gross sales milestone comes 15 months after the combating recreation went on sale in June 2023 throughout PlayStation, Xbox, and PC.

“Thanks for enjoying and for serving to us attain this milestone!” Capcom mentioned. “We hope you are excited for the way forward for SF6 as we intend to launch extra content material and maintain extra occasions!”

Street Fighter 6 hit three million copies bought again in January, seven months after launch. Meaning it’s taken simply over half a yr so as to add one other a million gross sales. Capcom has mentioned Street Fighter 6 is “typically progressing according to our expectations.”

Capcom had mentioned it aimed for Street Fighter 6 to outsell Street Fighter 5, concentrating on over 10 million copies bought over the course of its lifetime.

“Whereas we don’t talk particular figures for inside budgets, we glance to outperform the title’s predecessor, Street Fighter 5, and are aiming for greater than 10 million items over the lifetime of the title,” Capcom mentioned. Street Fighter 6, then, has a protracted strategy to go earlier than it beats Street Fighter 5’s gross sales complete.

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To place Street Fighter 6’s gross sales into context, 1993 SNES hit Street Fighter 2 Turbo bought 4.1 million copies, the seminal Street Fighter 2 bought 6.30 million, and Street Fighter 5 bought 7.60 million.

One other fascinating comparability is with combating recreation rival Mortal Kombat 1, which has bought 4 million copies since going on sale in September 2023. Mortal Kombat is usually the best-selling combating recreation franchise, outselling the likes of Street Fighter and Tekken by some margin. Mortal Kombat 1 hit 4 million gross sales round 11 months after launch. Tekken 8 bought two million in a month.

In the meantime, Street Fighter 6 is in the course of Second 2, with DLC characters Terry and Mai from Deadly Fury and The King of Fighters coming quickly, and Elena due out winter 2025. Capcom has but to say what comes after.

Wesley is the UK Information Editor for IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You may attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

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