Avenue Fighter 6 has been a certifiable hit because it launched on June 2.
Important reception has been glowing—together with my very own 89% Avenue Fighter 6 overview—and gamers have been diving in from all around the world to throw fireballs and flail their legs round with reckless abandon. The combating recreation has proved vastly profitable, a lot in order that Capcom has revealed it managed to promote over two million copies in 5 weeks, a million of these coming from its launch weekend alone.
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These are some good numbers for the style, and appear on tempo to satisfy Capcom’s aim of 10 million lifetime gross sales. For comparability, Avenue Fighter 5 offered round 600,000 copies much less in its first six weeks, lacking its unique 2 million gross sales goal. It went on to promote round 7 million copies over seven years, making it the best-selling dwelling console entry. Contemplating that recreation launched in a a lot, a lot worse state than Avenue Fighter 6, I will not be stunned to see the latter persevering with to promote persistently nicely. Mortal Kombat, the opposite main combating recreation franchise, has offered at the very least 15 million copies in 4 years.
Capcom’s funding in SF6’s aggressive scene will definitely assist to bolster these numbers. With a $2 million prize pool on the desk for the following Capcom Cup—$1 million of which can go to the grand winner—and a extra approachable recreation due to its Fashionable management choice that’s match authorized, I am certain it will be encouraging individuals to choose up the sport and provides issues a go.
The primary DLC character Rashid is on the horizon too, with three extra fighters deliberate to drop by early subsequent yr. There’s a lot to look ahead to, and because the recreation inevitably receives some tasty reductions down the street it will be an excellent larger incentive to choose up the sport, even whether it is simply to attempt its weird Yakuza-lite singleplayer mode.