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If we take Ryu out of it, who is the next most iconic fighting game character?
- Thread starter Cactuar
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If we're talking about the general population, I'd say that Scorpion is far more recognizable to the average person than Ryu - at least in the west.
Should be Angus MacGregor from Kasumi Ninja
But we aren't in the perfect timeline so it's probably Scorpion.
But we aren't in the perfect timeline so it's probably Scorpion.
Don't think Geese is anywhere near as known as Chun or Scorpion, even less so than Terry actually.
Thought briefly before coming into the topic and not reading any responses and came up with the same answer, and noticed him in the listing. It's not even a question he comes to mind fairly quickly if we ignore Ryu.
It's non-existent in Japan, but I'm not sure about the rest of Asia.
Even
MK is selling over 10 million a game, with SF struggling to reach it's first month sales target in 3 years.
Something known and loved by 1M people in 10 countries is still more popular and global than something loved by 50 people, each one from a different country.
Street Fighter is washed up and hasn't been popular in a minute. Stats don't lie.
There's nothing to fix.
MK is selling over 10 million a game, with SF struggling to reach it's first month sales target in 3 years.
Something known and loved by 1M people in 10 countries is still more popular and global than something loved by 50 people, each one from a different country.
Street Fighter is washed up and hasn't been popular in a minute. Stats don't lie.
It's funny for how iconic Scorpion and Chun-Li are none of them are in Smash yet. Sakurai better fix that.
The fact that Scorpion is barely edging out Chun-Li on an English forum tells me that Chun is by far more popular.
That doesn't really mean anything lmao. MK is not only popular in english speaking markets.
There are about 20 dofferent major spanish speaking MK fansites and forums, zero for Street Fighter.
Mk is also popular in continental Europe.
A poll on ResetEra (which is Capcom land, and loves to shit on MK) doesn't prove anything. Sales however would be a better indicator.
This forum is not repersentive of the wider public. It's weeb/Sony central here. A better metric would be sales which MK blows SF out of the water. The last two MK games (MKX and MK11) have both surpassed 10 million sales each whereas SFV has only sold 3.9 million copies.
1. Pokémon
2. Mario
3. Call of Duty
4. Wii
5. Pac-Man
6. Space Invaders
7. Dungeon Fighter Online
8. Street Fighter
9. Final Fantasy
10. Warcraft
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13. Grand Theft Auto
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15. League of Legends
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25. Dragon Ball video games
26. Halo
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39. Super Smash Bros.
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42. Minecraft
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46. Fortnite
50. Mortal Kombat
The numbers for MK are kind of old, but given how these companies love to celebrate milestones, I imagine MK is in the 40s now.
This is all capitalistic bullshit at the end of the day, but if you wanna play stats don't lie...
Era stays living in a bubble. Street Fighter is washed up to most people, just go read any article or youtube video comment section.
The number for SF is lifetime revenue up to 2018 but the number for MK is only up to 2006. So the entire MK reboot trilogy is not being took into account.