Fighting Games

[RepentantSky]

Here's the thing about SFV. For starters, it's typical business to sell the newest edition of a game when it releases right? Street Fighter has done it in the past, Destiny did it, Fallout did it, even PS3 versions of the Uncharted games became less popular on the market after Uncharted: Drake's Collection was released, and PS3 was still at the tail end of getting major titles released at the time on it despite current generation having been out for a while. It's just common practice no? And that will be the excuse for a lot of people when the Arcade Edition releases in 2018, but here's the thing, that arcade Edition will sell for a lot more than the game is currently selling for new. I checked GameStop, Amazon, Ebay even just google shopping which often shows overpriced versions of things the most expensive place was the google shopping tab, but even then it sold for a mere $22.51 US, and that was the best match result. Going down just four spots, a version of the game is priced at $8. When I looked at Amazon, it was selling for $19.91 on average, Ebay was selling it for $16.50 and GameStop was selling it for $19.99 but GameStop was particularly interesting because, unlike all the other places I looked, it wasn't listed on GameStop's options to click right away as you type in your search results. GameStop has a total of 5 options to pick from when typing in a search, Street Fighter II, Pop! Games - Akuma -Only at GameStop, Funko Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Box -Only At GameStop, Super Street Fighter 2 and Pint Size Heroes: Street Fighter - Only At GameStop. So with two versions of Street Fighter, which clicking either will lead to all the versions of the game that GameStop sells, and three different things that are just figures, as far as GameStop is concerned, SFV is old news, as it should be, because it's getting closer to two years old. However, when the new version comes out, you can bet your bottom dollar that the Arcade Edition will be in that top 5 search for a while, namely because it will be the most expensive thing related to Street Fighter that will end up in their top 5 results. Now of course you could buy it on Steam, but they've made the choice to sell it at $29.99 so almost no one is going to do that. I tell you all of this to make the point that Street Fighter V is already a successful title. On PS4 it's sold 1.03 million copies, and on Steam, it's sold at least 336,815 units. While that's considerably down from Street Fighter IV, that's to be expected. For starters, it's only sold on one console, and sure it's the one that sold the most copies for the game at around 4.18 million, the 2.94 million units on the 360 isn't anything to turn your nose at either. Now while it's true that this new version of SFV doesn't have any stages or characters as incentive to buy the game, but if they can sell enough versions of the new game, it gives them reason to make another version down the line after this upcoming version becomes to cheap or doesn't show up in results, or even perhaps a 9th generation version when those consoles come out. If there's one thing I've learned about gaming over the years, it's that if you let a shady practice go and it succeeds, it will be repeated, and here's it's easy to do that, because all they have to do is apologize for lying, and most people end up buying another version of the game down the line. It's a typical rinse and repeat formula. If we give them this, and allow them to resell the game at about twice the price that it's currently selling for, it will happen over and over because it makes them money, and damn it all to their promises, their word will mean nothing in the face of making more cash.

I'm just bringing this up for all to see where I'm coming from.