Nintendo Switch 2 Launch Helps Street Fighter 6 Hit 5 Million Sales 2 Years After Launch

Street Fighter 6 has present sold implicit 5 cardinal copies, Capcom has announced. That’s up from the 4 cardinal reported successful September 2024. The latest income milestone was helped by the warring game’s motorboat connected Nintendo Switch 2.

Capcom said it aimed to “maximize the game’s userbase” by bringing Street Fighter 6, present 2 years old, to the Switch 2 astatine launch. The Switch 2 mentation has exclusive modes designed for the console, and caller gameplay features that utilize the gyro functionality of the Joy-Con 2. It’s worthy noting the Switch 2 mentation has crossplay, maximising the excavation of players disposable for matchmaking.

“These initiatives person contributed to Street Fighter 6’s wide appeal, expanded planetary income and resulted successful the rubric achieving the milestone of 5 cardinal units sold,” Capcom said.

Street Fighter 6 deed 3 cardinal copies sold backmost successful January 2024, 7 months aft launch. Capcom has said Street Fighter 6 is “generally progressing successful enactment with our expectations,” but earlier motorboat it revealed it had aimed for the sequel to outsell Street Fighter 5, targeting implicit 10 cardinal copies sold implicit the people of its lifetime.

“While we bash not pass circumstantial figures for interior budgets, we look to outperform the title’s predecessor, Street Fighter 5, and are aiming for much than 10 cardinal units implicit the beingness of the title,” Capcom said. Street Fighter 6, then, inactive has a agelong mode to spell earlier it beats Street Fighter 5’s income total.

To enactment Street Fighter 6’s income into context, 1993 SNES deed Street Fighter 2 Turbo sold 4.1 cardinal copies, the seminal Street Fighter 2 sold 6.30 million, and Street Fighter 5 has sold 7.8 million.

Another absorbing examination is with warring crippled rival Mortal Kombat 1, which has besides sold 5 cardinal copies since going connected merchantability successful September 2023. Mortal Kombat is typically the best-selling warring crippled franchise, outselling the likes of Street Fighter and Tekken by immoderate margin. But Mortal Kombat 1 is seen arsenic a income disappointment, and developer NetherRealm precocious confirmed it had near it down to enactment connected its adjacent project.

Capcom, meanhwile, continues to enactment Street Fighter 6 into its 3rd year, and precocious announced a acceptable of 4 marque caller DLC characters: Sagat is retired this summer; C. Viper this fall; Alex aboriginal outpouring 2026; and finally, Ingrid precocious outpouring 2026. The announcement was made successful a trailer starring pro wrestler Kenny Omega, who dressed up arsenic each DLC character.

IGN's Street Fighter 6 reappraisal returned a 9/10. We said: "Street Fighter 6 is the astir feature-rich a Street Fighter has ever been astatine launch, but adjacent beyond that, it's roster of 18 characters is excellent, the caller mechanics revitalize the one-on-one warring formula, and it perfectly nails each of the small things that marque for a stellar warring game."

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