3d vs 2d sales

[rgveda99]

Do 3d fighting games generate more sales compared to 2d fighting games?

[Foobs]

Tekken is the best selling fg franchise (though I find it a bit hard to believe), so...

[Cybaster]

"2D" games in bold.

Tekken 6 (2.53m)
Mortal Kombat (2.19m)
Street Fighter IV (2.06m)
UFC 2009 Undisputed (1.71m)
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe (1.69m)
Fight Night Round 3 (1.63m)
Fight Night Round 4 (1.43m)
SoulCalibur IV (1.35m)
UFC Undisputed 2010 (1.34m)
Super Street Fighter IV (1.29m)
WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2008 (1.28m)
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (1.23m)
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (1.13m)
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (1.12m)
WWE '12 (1.04m)
Virtua Fighter 5 (1.04m)
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 (1.01m)
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (1.00m)
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 (0.89m)
Fight Night Champion (0.87m)
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (0.80m)
UFC Undisputed 3 (0.78m)
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (0.68m)
Street Fighter X Tekken (0.62m)
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 (0.58m)
SoulCalibur V (0.56m)
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Extreme VS (0.53m)
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (0.52m)
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (0.51m)
The Fight: Lights Out (0.49m)
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi (0.49m)
Legends of WrestleMania (0.46m)
Injustice: Gods Among Us (0.41m)
Bleach: Soul Resurreccion (0.40m)
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (0.40m)
TNA iMPACT! (0.36m)
Persona 4: Arena (0.36m)
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (0.34m)
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (0.33m)
WWE All Stars (0.32m)
Dead or Alive 5 (0.32m)

In August 2012 (yeah, not searching too much here), the BlazBlue franchise (CT and all iterations) hit 1.7m copies worldwide.

[JustNoPoint]

Wouldn't Mortal Kombat be 2d?

[walt]

Do 2.5D games count as 2D?

They look more 3D to me than 2D.

[Sinnesloschen]

It's probably the gameplay they're talking about, not the graphics.

[rgveda99]

Do 2.5D games count as 2D?

They look more 3D to me than 2D.

3d.

It's probably the gameplay they're talking about, not the graphics.

Its actually graphics.

[JustNoPoint]

Well he bolded SF4, MVC3, etc so I thought 2.5D = 2D in this

[Sinnesloschen]

Its actually graphics.

Seriously?

[rgveda99]

"2D" games in bold.

Tekken 6 (2.53m)
Mortal Kombat (2.19m)
Street Fighter IV (2.06m)
UFC 2009 Undisputed (1.71m)
Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe (1.69m)
Fight Night Round 3 (1.63m)
Fight Night Round 4 (1.43m)
SoulCalibur IV (1.35m)
UFC Undisputed 2010 (1.34m)
Super Street Fighter IV (1.29m)
WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2008 (1.28m)
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds (1.23m)
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (1.13m)
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 (1.12m)
WWE '12 (1.04m)
Virtua Fighter 5 (1.04m)
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 (1.01m)
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (1.00m)
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 (0.89m)
Fight Night Champion (0.87m)
Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit (0.80m)
UFC Undisputed 3 (0.78m)
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast (0.68m)
Street Fighter X Tekken (0.62m)
Dragon Ball: Raging Blast 2 (0.58m)
SoulCalibur V (0.56m)
Kidou Senshi Gundam: Extreme VS (0.53m)
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (0.52m)
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (0.51m)
The Fight: Lights Out (0.49m)
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi (0.49m)
Legends of WrestleMania (0.46m)
Injustice: Gods Among Us (0.41m)
Bleach: Soul Resurreccion (0.40m)
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (0.40m)
TNA iMPACT! (0.36m)
Persona 4: Arena (0.36m)
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (0.34m)
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (0.33m)
WWE All Stars (0.32m)
Dead or Alive 5 (0.32m)

In August 2012 (yeah, not searching too much here), the BlazBlue franchise (CT and all iterations) hit 1.7m copies worldwide.

No KOF XIII sales figures?

Its actually graphics.

Seriously?

I guess I should have been more specific. 

Edit:
Is this accurate?  What happened to South American and Asian markets?

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/43668/the-king-of-fighters-xiii/

[Cybaster]

Well, South America and the rest of Asia is in "rest of the world".
That's the website I took my values from.

As you see, the BlazBlue franchise is pretty much the only one that sold well. KOF13 is pretty bad as it is in terms of sales (which is a shame).

[Bastard Mami]

0.56 millions if you add the xbox 360 sales. so it did pretty decently, too abd we don't have any data on profits to ahve any idea if .56 is good or bad for snkp.

[rgveda99]

How is SNK surviving all these years?  Toy merchandise?

[Sinnesloschen]

They get immortality tips from Geese and resurrection tips from Rugal.

[LurkerSupreme]

I wonder how much of their income is from their pachinko machines sales since they do so much of them.

[Bastard Mami]

How is SNK surviving all these years?  Toy merchandise?

whores, drugs, pachinko games, you know, the usual; it also seems like their staff is pretty small, as in they had one guy in charge of all the ps2 ports programming wise.

[D.R.B]

tought I love the Tekken series , I still prefer 2D over 3D anytime anyday ,sucks to know that old school games are just getting too old to some people

[Duos.act]

2.5D still = 2D because they play on a 2d plane.  If you meant sprite based games you should have specified in your question.  I don't think the visuals have too much of an impact in the game sales but it does seem that only niche developers (such as SNKP and Arc System Works) have been sticking to sprite based games.

[GOH]

Tekken is the best selling fg franchise (though I find it a bit hard to believe), so...

Why? It was the most well known fighting game series after the SF series went into hibernation in the late 90's.

[rgveda99]

Tekken is the best selling fg franchise (though I find it a bit hard to believe), so...

Why? It was the most well known fighting game series after the SF series went into hibernation in the late 90's.

The movie?