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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. Street Fighter II - 19.2 million[1][2]
  2. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 13.21 million[3]
  3. Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS - 8.81 million[3]
  4. Street Fighter IV - 8.763 million[1]
  5. Tekken 3 - 8.5 million[4]
  6. Tekken 5 - 8.2 million[5]
  7. Super Smash Bros. Melee - 8.12 million[3]
  8. Mortal Kombat - 6 million[6]
  9. Super Smash Bros. - 5.55 million[3]
  10. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U - 5.24 million[3]
  11. Dragon Ball: Xenoverse - 5 million[7]
  12. Mortal Kombat X - 5 million
  13. Mortal Kombat (2011) - 4 million

Franchises

  1. Tekken - 47 million[8][9]
  2. Dragon Ball - 45.95 million[7]
  3. Street Fighter - 44 million[1][10]
  4. Super Smash Bros. - 40 million
  5. Mortal Kombat - 37 million
  6. Soul Calibur - 12 million

Arcade hardware

See also: Arcade gaming
  • Mortal Kombat series – 51,000
    • Mortal Kombat II – 27,000[13]
    • Mortal Kombat – 24,000[13]

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)[14]
Japan Street Fighter II 6573.4 1991 2008 [1] 14123
South Korea Dungeon Fighter Online 10300 2003 2017 [n 1] 13129
United States Mortal Kombat 570 1992 2002 [13] 927
Japan Tekken 3 499.4 1997 2012 [18] 910
United States Mortal Kombat II 400 1993 2002 [19][20] 680
Japan Tekken 2 344 1995 2012 [18] 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 [21] 27
South Korea Dungeon Fighter Online 2003 10.3 [n 1] 13.1
United States Mortal Kombat 1992 5 [22][23] 8

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dungeon Fighter Online:
    • 2003-2016 – $8.7 billion[15][16]
    • 2017 – $1.6 billion[17]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Street Fighter Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "sf" defined multiple times with different content
  2. ↑ http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/business/million.html
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=963700
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/396142170005970944
  5. ↑ Tekken
  6. ↑ Reyan Ali, Ed Boon's 12 Biggest Mortal Kombat Memories, Complex.com, September 12, 2012.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Dragon Ball
  8. ↑ http://www.twitlonger.com/show/nj1i5f
  9. ↑ http://www.avoidingthepuddle.com/news/2017/12/27/tekken-7-sales-exceed-3-million-copies-over-this-past-year.html (translated from 4gamer)
  10. ↑ http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/data/pdf/explanation/2016/full/explanation_2016_full_01.pdf
  11. ↑ 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."
  12. ↑ 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."
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 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
  14. ↑ CPI Inflation Calculator. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved on 2012-02-22.
  15. ↑ https://mmos.com/news/dungeon-fighter-online-bigger-franchise-star-wars
  16. ↑ https://venturebeat.com/2017/03/06/nexon-courts-western-game-developers-with-creativity-pitch/view-all/
  17. ↑ http://strivesponsorship.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SuperData-2017-year-in-review-digital-games-and-interactive-media.pdf
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Tekken
  19. ↑ Minnesota Intellectual Property Review - Volume 3, University of Minnesota Law School, 2002 (p.99).
  20. ↑ http://www.deseretnews.com/article/347090/VIDEO-ARCADES-HANGOUT-CHOICE-OF-A-NEW-GENERATION.html
  21. ↑ Street Fighter
  22. ↑ Threshold Digital Research Labs Greenlights Its First Digitally Animated Feature Film, 'Foodfight!'. PR Newswire. Cision (June 13, 2000). Retrieved on January 8, 2017.
  23. ↑ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19950501&id=H0RWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=reoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3412,181681
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