I think it's Mortal Kombat. I've grown up with both and I still prefer Street Fighter. SF2 (Turbo) is the greatest fighting game in history in my opinion.
What do you think?
What do you think?
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Which is more popular these days... STREET FIGHTER or MORTAL KOMBAT
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I agree that SF2 is the greatest and most influential fighting game ever, but in 2021, Mortal Kombat is winning the popularity contest by far.
Mortal Kombat is the biggest fighting game series of all time. Not even debatable.
Its tournament scene dwindles more quickly, but yeah.
Its tournament scene dwindles more quickly, but yeah.
I think Sales wise MK has been selling more so than Street Fighter? At least that seems to be the case here in the states. As far as Popularity wise I feel like Street fighter has a much larger fanbase world wide vs MK. (Personally I like MK better)
Does it though?
Maybe historically, but right now MK is way more popular.
As a Franchise? MK
As an active game? SF5
MK sells like gangbusters at initial release and with each major milestones (GOTY editions, etc) because the story mode and characters are more fun for casual gamers to noodle around with for 10-15 hours before they decide they never want to play it again. But longevity wise, MK games (and injustice games) have suffered a lot for a lot of different reasons.
But MK is a franchise that does well despite it's whales. MK does not need the FGC to survive, and it's been really great watching Netherrealm try to improve themselves while knowing that. They could have easily gone the easy road and continued to shit out mediocre products year over year, but they are at least trying to move things forward as far as rollback netcode, tournament modes and community fostering are concerned. They just fumble every time they go to great lengths to convert casual gamers into invested gamers.
As an active game? SF5
MK sells like gangbusters at initial release and with each major milestones (GOTY editions, etc) because the story mode and characters are more fun for casual gamers to noodle around with for 10-15 hours before they decide they never want to play it again. But longevity wise, MK games (and injustice games) have suffered a lot for a lot of different reasons.
But MK is a franchise that does well despite it's whales. MK does not need the FGC to survive, and it's been really great watching Netherrealm try to improve themselves while knowing that. They could have easily gone the easy road and continued to shit out mediocre products year over year, but they are at least trying to move things forward as far as rollback netcode, tournament modes and community fostering are concerned. They just fumble every time they go to great lengths to convert casual gamers into invested gamers.
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I feel like MK has become this mainstream thing everyone and their mother know or at least heard about in the last years. And the production value of MK10 and 11 is through the roof for a fighting game, it`s like the only triple-A fighting game out there. Street Fighter is a classic and gameplay-wise I still prefer it, but MK is just more popular, imo.
I'm pretty sure MK11 has sold almost double what SF5 has, although SF is definitely more popular than MK among the FGC crowd.
MK 11 sold 8 million as of October 2020. Released March 2019.
Street Fighter 5 came out in February 2016. It hit 5 Million in September 2020.
MK is definitely selling a lot more, much more quickly. For sure.
WW? Street Fighter as a brand. USA? Mortal Kombat as a brand and game.
Regarding people who play games? Mortal Kombat.
The fighting community? Street Fighter.
What game WW? Dunno, KoF in Brazil, Tekken in Asia, maybe there isn't one ubiquitous fighting game 🤔
Regarding people who play games? Mortal Kombat.
The fighting community? Street Fighter.
What game WW? Dunno, KoF in Brazil, Tekken in Asia, maybe there isn't one ubiquitous fighting game 🤔
Except for Super Smash :v
In American pop culture MK is definitely more popular. Can't speak for the rest of the world, though.
FGC, Street Fighter
General public, Mortal Kombat (America for sure, though its lack of presence in Japan should be noted)
General public, Mortal Kombat (America for sure, though its lack of presence in Japan should be noted)
What's so sad about it? Neverrealm put a lot of effort into making MK a full package.
SFV launched a horrific state and took years just to have be an interesting casual SP experience.
Capcom went way too hard the FGC route IMO.
Sad because SF deserved better but Capcom saw the fgc and was like "i am never expanding this audience" =/
I prefer Street Fighter (I hate the MK controls and only put up with them for the story mode) but MK is definitely the most popular and it's not even close.
I don't think MK has much of a presence in Asia over all, especially since the game is like banned in a bunch of countries.
thats a tough fight, while street fighter 2 arcade was everwhere at the time, including pubs, the mortal kombat polemic in the 90's was well known.
Street fighter had a movie with vandame, but the mortal kombat movie got famous too especialy the music
street fighter had superior animes and it was pretty popular
hmmmmmm
Street fighter had a movie with vandame, but the mortal kombat movie got famous too especialy the music
street fighter had superior animes and it was pretty popular
hmmmmmm
Mortal Kombat easily.
It's crazy how massive production values the games get and sell like probably in release month more than what SFV did life time.
The state SFV released in was awful and did a lot of damage. It's so much better now but MK have already released X and XI since then with both selling millions and millions each.
It's crazy how massive production values the games get and sell like probably in release month more than what SFV did life time.
The state SFV released in was awful and did a lot of damage. It's so much better now but MK have already released X and XI since then with both selling millions and millions each.
Hell no, I imagine you are Brazilian to even say this, but come on. KoF does not have a bigger audience than SF nor MK in Brazil as far as scene, tournaments and sales go.