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The fighting game genre has historically been of the stronger, solidly selling genres. The following are some of the bestselling fighting games. Reminder that this list is not to be taken as an objective source since total sales data for some other fighting game franchise such as The King of Fighters[1] and Guilty Gear[2] are not available.

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)[3]
Japan Street Fighter II 10,610 1991 2008 [4] 20,377
Japan Virtua Fighter 1680 1993 1996 [5] 3,403
Japan Virtua Fighter 2 1200 1994 2001 [5] 2,369
United States Mortal Kombat II 1,000 1993 2002 [6][7] 1,627
United States Mortal Kombat 870 1992 2002 [8][9] 1,416

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 12.2 [4] 23
United States Mortal Kombat 1992 5 [10][11] 8
Japan Virtua Fighter 1993 4.08 [5] 8

Software sales[]

Games[]

  1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 31.77 million[12]
  2. Street Fighter II - 22.93 million[13]
  3. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U - 15.02 million[14]
  4. Mortal Kombat 11 - 15 million[15]
  5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 13.32 million[16]
  6. Mortal Kombat X - 12 million[17][18]
  7. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 - 11.88 million
  8. Tekken 5 - 10 million[19]
  9. Tekken 7 - 10 million[20]
  10. Dragon Ball FighterZ - 10 million[21]
  11. Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 - 10 million[21]
  12. Street Fighter IV - 9.8 million[13]
  13. Tekken 3 - 9 million[22]
  14. Street Fighter V - 7.3 million[23]
  15. Super Smash Bros. Melee - 7.09 million
  16. Tekken 2 - 5.74 million[24]
  17. Super Smash Bros. - 5.55 million
  18. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - 5.38 Million[25]
  19. Jump Force - 5.12 million[26]
  20. Dragon Ball Xenoverse - 5 million[27]
  21. Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - 4.9 million [28]
  22. Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance - 3.5 million[29]
  23. Pokkén Tournament - 3.42 million[24]
  24. Mortal Kombat 1 - 3 million [30]
  25. Street Fighter 6 - 3 million [31][1]
  26. Mortal Kombat (Mortal Kombat 9) - 3 million [43]
  27. ARMS - 2.66 million
  28. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection - 2.5 [23]
  29. Virtua Fighter 2 - 2.5 million
  30. My Hero One's Justice 2 - 2.5 million[32]
  31. Soul Calibur IV - 2.32 million[33]
  32. Dead or Alive 3 - 2.04 million[2]
  33. Soul Calibur 6 - 2 million[34]
  34. Tekken 8 - 2 million[1]
  35. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite - 2 million[23]
  36. Street Fighter x Tekken - 1.9 million[23]
  37. Mortal Kombat: Deception - 1.9 million[35]
  38. Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe - 1.8 million [44]
  39. Tekken - 1.79 million[24]
  40. Injustice 2 - 1,72 million [46]
  41. Virtua Fighter 4 - 1.5 million
  42. Virtua Fighter - 1.5 million
  43. Injustice: Gods Among Us - 1.42 million [45]
  44. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes - 1.4 million[23]
  45. Dead or Alive 4 - 1.2 million
  46. Street Fighter Alpha 3 - 1 million[23]
  47. Guilty Gear Strive- 1 million[36]
  48. Granblue Fantasy Versus - 1 million[37]
  49. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon - 1 million[38]

Franchises[]

Arcade hardware[]

See also: Arcade gaming
  • Virtua Fighter series – 110,000+[5]
    • Virtua Fighter – 40,000+
    • Virtua Fighter 2 – 40,000
    • Virtua Fighter 3 – 30,000
  • Tekken series – 94,000+[49]
    • Tekken 2 – 40,000
    • Tekken 3 – 35,000
    • Tekken Tag Tournament – 19,000
  • Mortal Kombat series – 51,000
    • Mortal Kombat II – 27,000[50]
    • Mortal Kombat – 24,000[50]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Fighters
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilty_Gear
  3. CPI Inflation Calculator. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved on 2012-02-22.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Street Fighter
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Arcade gaming
  6. Top 10 Highest-Grossing Arcade Games of All Time. USgamer (1 January 2016).
  7. Minnesota Intellectual Property Review - Volume 3, University of Minnesota Law School, 2002 (p.99).
  8. Horwitz, Jeremy (8 July 2002). "Mortal Apathy?". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/08/technology/08MIDW.html.
  9. McKanic, Patricia Ann (March 24, 1994). "Video values: It's a whole new game for the industry". Lakeland Ledger. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=49wvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dfwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4448,1185138.
  10. Threshold Digital Research Labs Greenlights Its First Digitally Animated Feature Film, 'Foodfight!'. PR Newswire. Cision (June 13, 2000). Retrieved on January 8, 2017.
  11. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19950501&id=H0RWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3412,181681
  12. Nintendo Switch's Top 10 selling games
  13. 13.0 13.1 Street Fighter
  14. Nintendo 3DS' top 10 selling games
  15. https://www.eventhubs.com/news/2022/oct/12/mk11ultimate-best-selling-game-franchise/
  16. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/software/wii.html
  17. 166 Rapid-Fire Questions With Mortal Kombat 11's Ed Boon - 16:43
  18. https://twitter.com/noobde/status/1419669323984035842?s=19
  19. World famous character could have joined TEKKEN? Harada QA Ⅱ
  20. https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/1601849013069750273
  21. 21.0 21.1 https://twitter.com/dragonballgames/status/1656207541863366656
  22. World famous character could have joined TEKKEN? Harada QA Ⅱ
  23. 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 Capcom's Million-sellers list
  24. 24.0 24.1 24.2 Tekken
  25. Nintendo Wii U's Top 10 Selling Games
  26. CESA White Paper 2022 via Installbase Forum
  27. https://twitter.com/bk2128/status/925695824213848066
  28. Capcom's Million-sellers list Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (PS3, X360)- 2.20 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (PS4, XB1) - 1.50 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (PS3, X360) - 1.20
  29. Error on call to template:cite web: Parameters archiveurl and archivedate must be both specified or both omittedCook, Dave (2011-04-20). Mortal Kombat: Ed Boon Interview. Now Gamer. Retrieved on 2011-09-06.
  30. https://gameworldobserver.com/2023/11/09/mortal-kombat-1-sales-3-million-copies-vs-other-mk-games
  31. https://twitter.com/StreetFighter/status/1747080027739431333
  32. https://twitter.com/heroaca_oj/status/1601139599497216000
  33. https://web.archive.org/web/20110723162849/http://www.bandainamco.co.jp/en/ir/financial/pdf_bnh/en_20090520_1.pdf
  34. https://twitter.com/soulcalibur/status/1417655554126663680
  35. Surette, Tim (October 14, 2005). MK: Deception slashes price. GameSpot.
  36. https://www.guiltygear.com/ggst/en/news/post-1636/2.5 million players https://www.ign.com/articles/guilty-gear-strive-season-3-details-revealed-as-it-reaches-25-million-players-globally-evo-2023
  37. https://www.gematsu.com/2023/08/granblue-fantasy-versus-sales-top-one-million
  38. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mk-armageddon-sells-a-million/1100-6163898/
  39. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/91528/mortal-kombat-hits-80-million-sales-heres-how-it-stacks-up-against-competition/index.html
  40. Super Smash Bros.
    • 1999 -  N64 - Super Smash Bros. - 5.55
    • 2001 - GCN - Super Smash Bros. Melee - 7.41
    • 2008 - Wii - Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 13.32
    • 2014 - 3DS - Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS - 9.64
    • 2014 - Wii U - Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - 5.38
    • 2018 - Switch - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 30.44
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  42. Dragon Ball
  43. Street Fighter
  44. Page 3 - https://www.bandainamco.co.jp/cgi-bin/releases/index.cgi/file/view/10492?entry_id=7280
  45. Capcom's franchises sales
  46. "Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008", Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition (Guinness World Records): p. 77, 2008, ISBN 978-1-904994-21-3, https://books.google.com/books?id=OJQFSlyMEfAC, retrieved 2011-04-09, "Street Fighter has sold over 25 million console games and 500,000 arcade units generating more than a billion dollars in revenue."
  47. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HqC0AAAAIAAJ&q=super+street+fighter+ii Japan Company Handbook: Second section, Issues 1-2, Toyo Keizai Shinposha, 1994, page 758] – "Sales of "Street Fighter II Turbo' aimed at 4.2 mil units, and commercial-use "Super Street Fighter II" at 100,000 units in current term."
  48. 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."
  49. Tekken
  50. 50.0 50.1 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.
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