*vgsales is a wiki site that compiles statistics drawn from multiple sources.
Tekken continues to carve out a substantial community of players with each release, void of the esports branding and massive twitch numbers that one might think was necessary to stay relevant as gamer interest evolves and changes. So if you needed any more reminder that Tekken is still at the forefront of the industry even after all these years, there you have it. Tekken has done its legwork without commanding a significant competitive scene. Particularly, so, considering that Street Fighter has always and continues to be a big noise in the esports community. What is a little surprising is that it’s essentially the best selling “true” fighting game of all time, well ahead of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat entries.
#Tekken 3 fight game series#
The third iteration of the series and the last on the PS One was a critical darling and one that became a hallmark title for the hardware. It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Tekken 3 lead the way for the franchise. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior – 6.3 million.These are the 10 best selling fighting games:
So let’s take a look at some numbers for individual games while we’re at it. Those are handy figures for a relatively young franchise, but they also put into context just what a total juggernaut Tekken is. We couldn’t find exact numbers for the franchise but estimates seem to put it in the 2-3 million range. Perhaps Injustice is the closest thing we’ve seen to replicating that level of success. It’s not something that’s really ever been repeated on the same level within the fighting game genre. The roster has evolved and changed since the earlier games, of course, but it was the brand power first forged by the Tekken games of the 90s that hooked player interest and saw the franchise rise from pretender to giant killer. The blend of mixed martial arts and kendo in combination with characters that transcend realism and fantasy were a huge hit among players right from the off. Jin, King, Eddy, and Yoshimitsu are just a few of the names that really stick out. But we can’t help but feel it’s the series’ now iconic stable of characters that it owes much of its success too. Those are two enormous names in the industry –one that has been around for years longer, and the other with the brand power of Nintendo behind it.įighting games first and foremost live and die by how they control, and Tekken has certainly always delivered a brilliant gameplay experience. Yet still, it’s quite incredible that it leads both Street Fighter and Smash Bros. It’s also somewhat part of PlayStation legend, as the title the really moved the genre from 2D arcade gaming to home-console 3D gaming. Of course, Tekken has always been a huge noise in the fighting game community. So in the spirit of celebrating both games’ respective successes, we thought it might be interesting to take a look at the numbers across the whole genre via vgsales.* Here’s how the numbers measure up: In doing so, the franchises’ total sales now comfortably top the genre, with a staggering 47 million copies sold worldwide since its inception back in 1994.
Yesterday, the publisher announced that Tekken 7 smashed through an impressive three million sales worldwide. Soul Calibur VI’s critical acclaim has made a big splash in the fighting game community, but it’s Bandai Namco’s Tekken series that’s stolen the headlines for its commercial success.
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