Street Fighter 6 has bought three million copies in seven months, writer Capcom has introduced.
The preventing recreation hit the milestone on January 3, 2024, and comes seven months after it went on sale on June 2, 2023. Street Fighter 6 acquired off to a powerful begin with a million bought over launch weekend. It then hit two million copies bought after simply over a month on sale. Which means it’s taken half a yr to promote a million extra copies.
Commenting on the 2 million gross sales milestone, Capcom stated Street Fighter 6 was “usually progressing in keeping with our expectations”, including it hoped constructive phrase of mouth would gas follow-up success.
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“In comparison with the inner plan for the title, gross sales are usually progressing in keeping with our expectations,” Capcom stated on the time. “We consider that its constructive essential reception will work as a tailwind in increasing future gross sales of the sport as a listing title.”
Capcom had stated 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 inner 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 stated.
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Talking this week, Capcom stated it had “steadily” grown gross sales by pushing Street Fighter 6 DLC and esports. The sport has seen DLC characters and expensive new outfits come out, in addition to numerous collaborations with different manufacturers. Seeking to the longer term, Ed is Street Fighter 6’s subsequent DLC character, then fan-favourite Akuma comes out in some unspecified time in the future within the spring.
Whole Street Fighter franchise gross sales are actually as much as 52 million. Street Fighter 5 stays the best-selling recreation within the sequence, with 7.4 million bought as of September 30, 2023. 1992’s Street Fighter 2, for reference, bought 6.30 million.
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