Street Fighter x Tekken 'low' sales blamed on 'Cannibalism'

[garyopa]

Lots of brawlers launched in too short of a time frame.



According to Capcom the 'Street Fighter X Tekken' sales have 'fallen short of our plan'...

According to a Capcom's Q&A session posted to the publisher's investor relations site today, the company addressed the Street Fighter x Tekken worldwide sales of 1.4 million.

Seems that, despite moving over 1 million units, sales didn't perform up to Capcom's expectations. They blame a glut of recent fighting game releases...

"Sales of Street Fighter X Tekken have fallen short of our plan," the company's statement confirmed. "We believe one of [the] causes is cannibalism because of the large number of other games in this genre that were launched within a short time."

Well, actually Capcom themselves have released a lot of them in recent years, including Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition, and Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition.

In the same time frame other publishers have released Mortal Kombat, SoulCalibur V, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend, and King of Fighters XIII.

They also addressed the successful sales of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (which shipped 2 million units) and said that was a vindication of their business plan.

"This shows the success of our decision to try the new approach of using an alliance with an overseas development company," the company said.

What do you think?

NEWS SOURCE #1: http://www.gamespot.com/news/street-...balism-6376795
NEWS SOURCE #2: http://gematsu.com/2012/05/capcom-st...rt-of-our-plan

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news story!

[WoIverine]

Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 is a tough game to beat, even by other capcom games. Every other 2D fighter in the genre can't really compare.

[Battlefield]

When they release like 4-5 Street Fighter games in 2 years, they cant expect big sales. People get tired of the minor? updates..at full price.
Or arent they minor? Maybe i'm wrong..

[billysastard]

they are right, the problem does lie with cannibalism.

if they hadnt been such greedy fucking bastards cannibalizing their games to within an inch of their lives for dlc then maybe, just maybe, people would still be buying their games instead of now just waiting for the "ultimate" version to release in a few months with all the dlc included as it should have been in the first place.

[trancehead]

Gee, and I thought it was because the game just plain sucked. I'll probably get Tekken X Street Fighter, but I have no interest in SFxT at all, playing Tekken characters in 2D just doesn't sound appealing to me.

[Zelgadiszero]

Dear investors, our game failed not because:

- We released an untested beta with sensible issues (timeovers, game
dynamics ranging from stupid [jab pressure] to useless [pandora], a
lackluster multiplayer mode, also with no sound at launch)

- We cut 25 % of the roster, but were so smart to leave it on the game dvd.
Those pesky hackers be damned!!

- We decided to insult the fighting game genre as a whole just to
milk the masses with our innovative assist gems. The fact that
experienced players can make most use of them, completely wrecking the
gameplay and turning the game into a runaway fest was sure an
unfortunate and clearly unforeseeable development...

- We lied to 360 users about local co-op, but luckily Svensson
smoothed things out in his typical, fanbase friendly fashion. By the
way, does anybody know what 'suck it up losers, we ain't fixin' a
thing' mean in english?

- PC version of the game is completely unplayable online due to
broken netcode. Who knew people on PC played online... Next time we
might wanna test multiplayer before the games goes gold. Or maybe we can
wait 3 years before porting the game, nobody is gonna notice!

- We recycled 4 years old graphics and models (we actually recycled
the whole Street Fighter moveset, but shhh! don't tell anybody!), Ryu
and Ken on tons of steroids are so kakkoii!! We're gonna make Chun-Li's
thighs even bigger in SF5!

...but! Listen!

It failed because of so many fighting games being out at the same moment!

It's totally not like everybody and their mothers are buying each of
those new games because they're worth their pricetag, fun to both play
*and* watch, offer great (and free) customization, rich online mode and better single player!

Sincerely, your SFxT developers.

P.S. Please let us know if you like our latest 'ultimate hyper uber
guard' gem pack, priced at only 15 $: now that it blocks even command
grabs and auto punish jump attempts, there's no way scrub- err, our
loyal fans will miss that!

[Diztructor]

they are right, the problem does lie with cannibalism.

if they hadnt been such greedy fucking bastards cannibalizing their games to within an inch of their lives for dlc then maybe, just maybe, people would still be buying their games instead of now just waiting for the "ultimate" version to release in a few months with all the dlc included as it should have been in the first place.

ohhh fuk off with your dlc b1tching, just because you dont like dlc content, just because you think additional skins/maps/weapons is content deliberately snipped out of the game that your parranoid delusions.

FACTS ARE which you seem to claim so much all the time.

if people didnt buy dlc content then no one would be creating it, FACT IS people like extra dlc content and fuking pay for it, so why the fuk not, shall we not enjoy a game a little longer with new content made after the game was released.

as for "ultimate" edditions, again you find it bad for those that dont like to download dlc content but rather have it on a disc is a bad idea.

seriously you need to wake your head up and see further than your own delusions, if we all was like you (which is lame) suicide rates would rocket so high.

[billysastard]

as for "ultimate" edditions, again you find it bad for those that dont like to download dlc content but rather have it on a disc is a bad idea.

i dont find ultimate editions bad and given their sales and the fact that more are being released i'd imagine that the public quite likes them too, i'd just prefer that everyone could buy the "ultimate" edition on day one instead of the greedy publishers milking the terminally stupid for dlc that should have been included and only releasing the complete game once the idiot well has run dry.

[Diztructor]

i dont find ultimate editions bad and given their sales and the fact that more are being released i'd imagine that the public quite likes them too, i'd just prefer that everyone could buy the "ultimate" edition on day one instead of the greedy publishers milking the terminally stupid for dlc that should have been included and only releasing the complete game once the idiot well has run dry.

the terminally stupid is you, you fail to see the other side to anyting other than your own BS view.

take gears of war 3, the content that is still being released as dlc, half witted brain of yours has failed to see that if they were to do all this dlc at launch of the game as a ultimate eddition would do what.....

set the date back even further.

the terminally stupid again is you, those that havent downloaded the dlc or even baught the orrigional game can then buy the game with all its dlc.

how the feck is this milking money, they chose to buy it, ive paid for GoW3 dlc map packs, does this make me terminally stupid paying this that is giving me more play time out of the game i baught.

its just you pal, all you think is that all this dlc is stuff taken out of a game to make extra cash, you somehow beleive that a game is half finnished when it has dlc.

but yet again, your clearly wrong, you fail to see that all dlc is, is optional additional content, you can buy a game, play it from start to end without needing dlc, thats the fact, and it clearly proves you are wrong and that yet again its just your lame point of view.

you really do remind me of someone i knew who was soo far up his own ar5e, if he hated something, everyone else has to, even blinded to the facts that people out there that like it, he couldnt accept it because it wasnt how he thinks.

take nintendo for example how you and others seem to insist because its the console that sells the most (which duur because its allways the cheapest) but you fail to see the majority of sh1te games nintendo keep getting, that MS/SONY consoles have allways had a wider range of games suited for all gaming ages, not just kids, that these 2 consoles are the ones that get far more must have games, games that break sales records in days/weeks, games that win awards.

this is what MS/SONY think about, making a system thats capable of pushing its games even further during its console life, nintendo all they care about is its FAD controllers and making cheap systems that prints money for them and recycling mario/zelda over n over, which is the same sh1te all the time.

i used to love nintendo back in the n64 days, but to see how games have changed with the times and nintendo games still feel and play the same as they did back in the 90s, id rather stick with my n64 thanks.

but ill accept if i am wrong, but this will only be proven once the wii u is released, but taking every console nintendo has released since the n64, the games theyve had, its highly likely nintendo will do exactly the same again.

[DEDDOA]

Blatant screwing with customers and then lying about it more like it, bend over and take it sheep boy may like being screwed by the likes of Capcom but the majoprity of us don't. They release what is proably one of the biggest let downs in a fighting game in a long time, they intentional gimp the roster then lie about it, and even more so on the 360 as they try to use the Vita comaptability crap when it doesn't apply, then they lie about the lack of 2 player online on one 360 or PC even tho the likes of Mortal Kombat does it (and if i recall Gears of War and/or Halo 3 did it) and that they have no intention of patching it in (you will probably need the Ultimate edition they calim they aren't going to release but will edition for that). The Tekken side of things is nothing but Street fighter with tekken skins and not even proper Tekken so it's hardly Street fighter crossed with Tekken Just Street Fight Tekken Skins Edition. Even that would have been ok if not released at thearound the same time as multiple other better fighters, and on the tails of SF4 Mk3 arcade cash in edition and Marvel v Capcom we can't be arsed to just patch it liek we do int he arcades so we will sell you another version edition.

I would hope they learn a lesson, but I doubt they will and they will be further convinced of this by the likes of certain idiots who just say "I have plenty of lube, so you can screw me over some more, as I have no idea how to see when i am gettign a bad deal".

[DEDDOA]

the terminally stupid is you, you fail to see the other side to anyting other than your own BS view.

take gears of war 3, the content that is still being released as dlc, half witted brain of yours has failed to see that if they were to do all this dlc at launch of the game as a ultimate eddition would do what.....

set the date back even further.

the terminally stupid again is you, those that havent downloaded the dlc or even baught the orrigional game can then buy the game with all its dlc.

how the feck is this milking money, they chose to buy it, ive paid for GoW3 dlc map packs, does this make me terminally stupid paying this that is giving me more play time out of the game i baught.

its just you pal, all you think is that all this dlc is stuff taken out of a game to make extra cash, you somehow beleive that a game is half finnished when it has dlc.

but yet again, your clearly wrong, you fail to see that all dlc is, is optional additional content, you can buy a game, play it from start to end without needing dlc, thats the fact, and it clearly proves you are wrong and that yet again its just your lame point of view.

you really do remind me of someone i knew who was soo far up his own ar5e, if he hated something, everyone else has to, even blinded to the facts that people out there that like it, he couldnt accept it because it wasnt how he thinks.

take nintendo for example how you and others seem to insist because its the console that sells the most (which duur because its allways the cheapest) but you fail to see the majority of sh1te games nintendo keep getting, that MS/SONY consoles have allways had a wider range of games suited for all gaming ages, not just kids, that these 2 consoles are the ones that get far more must have games, games that break sales records in days/weeks, games that win awards.

this is what MS/SONY think about, making a system thats capable of pushing its games even further during its console life, nintendo all they care about is its FAD controllers and making cheap systems that prints money for them and recycling mario/zelda over n over, which is the same sh1te all the time.

i used to love nintendo back in the n64 days, but to see how games have changed with the times and nintendo games still feel and play the same as they did back in the 90s, id rather stick with my n64 thanks.

but ill accept if i am wrong, but this will only be proven once the wii u is released, but taking every console nintendo has released since the n64, the games theyve had, its highly likely nintendo will do exactly the same again.

Not everything is about your fanatic hate for Nintendo or you love for Sony and your atempt to hide that by mentioniong MS as well. This is about Capcom and their shoddy treatment of customers getting them stung in the pocket.

[Diztructor]

Not everything is about your fanatic hate for Nintendo or you love for Sony and your atempt to hide that by mentioniong MS as well. This is about Capcom and their shoddy treatment of customers getting them stung in the pocket.

lol nice to hear that you think im a sony tool and use ms to mask it, erm explain to me then why i own 2 360's, the launch and a slim, yet only have one ps3.

i dont mask my fanboyism, i am a gamer who likes a console if it has the games i want to play, which you people (aka nintendo fanboy) cant accept the simple fact that the majority of nintendo are childish games and shovelware and has been the case since the cube, you fail to accept the fact that nintendo allways misses the great exclusive games that sony and ms get, the cube proved this when it cost nintendo to sell its best game studio.

ohh i guess this is just made up fanboy trash talk lol. but lets wait and see shall we, and watch nintendo's wii u follow the same suite as the last systems, with its shovelware games based on its iFAD controller, which then after a year or two becomes very fecking repetetive just like mario/zelda games.

again id like to know how capcom screwed its customers, when you buy this game, do you not have a full game to play.... ohh wait are you allso like billy who thinks dlc content is stolen from the game to make money.

sure people thought it was bad to have it on the disc, but theres normal people out there who also agree having it on a disc is a good idea because you dont have to download the content, you simply unlock it.

there is no difference witht he dlc been on a disc or on a server.