Street Fighter KOs Wii Fit

[John Funk]

Street Fighter KOs Wii Fit

Street fighting seems to be all the rage these days: Shipping two million copies in its first week on shelves, Street Fighter IV managed to break Wii Fit's five-week stranglehold on UK sales charts.

There's plenty of reasons for the folks at Capcom to be in good spirits these days, not least of which is their boosted PS3 and Xbox 360 sales [http://ir.capcom.co.jp/english/news/html/e090223.html] - though was edged out by the newest Mario & Luigi DS game.

SF4 was not to be stopped on the other end of Eurasia, though - UK research company Chart Track announced that the title had topped the all-platforms sales charts for last week, dethroning reigning champion Wii Fit. As Edge's Kris Graft points out [http://www.edge-online.com/news/street-fighter-kos-wii-fit-uk], this marks a three-year streak for Capcom having a number one release in February: Lost Planet in 2007, followed by Devil May Cry 4 and now Street Fighter.

Yessir, there are quite a few people playing Street Fighter IV. Judging from Xbox Live this past weekend, at least 90% of them are playing Ken or Ryu. Gotta go with what you know, I guess. Oh well, just makes it easier to kick their asses with Sagat or Sakura.

(Via Edge [http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=208938%3Fcid])

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[KDR_11k]

I wonder how long that is going to last though, most traditional games spike high initially and then fall off quickly while those "casual" games tend to sell strongly for a long time.

 

[Dectilon]

Is there any word on the PC-version? I was hoping to get that one

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Hmm...Not sure I'm intrested in this one. I havn't played street fighter since I was about 6.

 

[Woe Is You]

Oh well, just makes it easier to kick their asses with Sagat or Sakura.

Oh, please.

Sakura is just Ryu for pervs.

 

[Keane Ng]

Oh well, just makes it easier to kick their asses with Sagat or Sakura.

Neither Tiger Man nor Panty Shot will be able to save you from the wrath of my Russian Wrestler.

 

[Stylish_Robot]

Oh well, just makes it easier to kick their asses with Sagat or Sakura.

Oh, please.

Sakura is just Ryu for pervs.

Actually I've been using her a lot and been beating a couple of players. Her hadouken is incredibly weak but her dragon punch owns and her ultra's easy to get to, especially with those crappy 360 controllers

 

[John Funk]

Oh well, just makes it easier to kick their asses with Sagat or Sakura.

Neither Tiger Man nor Panty Shot will be able to save you from the wrath of my Russian Wrestler.

Excuses excuses.

Speaking of excuses, those were flukes!

Seriously though, that was my first real time experimenting with Rose. You showed me some more of her potential that second time around, though I should spend less time trying to FADC her Soul Spark and more time ... y'know, learning how to do the other stuff.

 

[shadow skill]

Sakura was actually better in Alpha2, almost god like frankly. When she is used correctly she can be even more dangerous than Ryu even in Sf4 where she seems much weaker. She is one of my favorite characters, I still have to figure out how to work with her since her fireball takes so much longer than most of the others to come out. As far as the whole panty shot thing goes, if you want that go play Ikkitouen. (Although the fact that clothes get shredded the way they do makes a certain kind of perverse sense which is sad on so many levels.)