While other video game companies have been facing a fairly rough 2024, Capcom is continuing to do pretty well for itself, which is apparently carrying over to their fighting games as well.
The house built by Mega Man and Street Fighter then expanded by Resident Evil and Monster Hunter recently released their updated sales figures for their highest-selling video games with some nice boosts for Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom.
Capcom’s platinum titles page is now updated to reflect the end of the last quarter, so we can see the new sales listings as of September 30, 2024 for all of the game’s that have pushed at least 1 million copies.
The company previously announced Street Fighter 6 crossed 4 million copies sold at the start of September, but they apparently added even more to that.
Now we can see SF6 is up to at least 4.10 million worldwide and up to 22nd on Capcom’s chart in less than a year and a half after launching last year, which still puts it at more than double Street Fighter 5’s sales over the same period.
Speaking of the predecessor, Street Fighter 5 is continuing to sell more copies up an additional 100,000 units from the last quarter up to 7.7 million and 300,000 for the year keeping it ranked 13th overall on the list.
And those weren’t the only increases either.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 sold another 100,000 copies up to 2 million now, and the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection increased by 200,000 up to 3.4 million.
Although it wasn’t over the last quarter specifically, Street Fighter 4 even saw a surprising jump from March to June this year after being pretty stagnant for a long time.
Both the vanilla and Ultra Street Fighter 4 listings increased by 200,000 each, which likely indicates they were purchased mostly through Steam / on PC.
We’re not sure if this is because of a really good sale or perhaps connected to enthusiasm surrounding the rollback netcode project for SF4 that was teased last year and then briefly appeared online before being quickly taken down around the start of 2024.
There are a couple of notable absences from the rankings as well that are worth pointing out.
The Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection released digitally in September, but it did not cross the 1 million mark in that window (though it should get another boost soon with the physical edition’s launch this month).
We were a bit worried that it may not have even sold 100,000 copies since the Marvel vs. Capcom series sales is still listed at 11 million total, but it turns out that number just hasn’t been updated all year — and should be at least 11.3 million by now.
Early signs did indicate the new MvC Collection is selling well, so hopefully we’ll get some concrete numbers for its performance in the near future.
The other more recent title missing in action is the Capcom Fighting Collection, which still hasn’t managed to reach 1 million after more than two years on the market.
This probably isn’t a great sign for the future of the Darkstalkers since they were the emphasis of the compilation and especially now that we’ve learned that a new Darkstalkers was being worked on and then canceled over a decade ago.
Presumably, the Capcom Fighting Collection 2 will perform better than the first with the Capcom vs. SNK games as well as Power Stone and Project Justice.
It’ll be interesting to see if Black Friday and holiday sales will be enough to push SF6 over 5 million copies before the year ends, but it’s on track to take over the highest-selling single fighting game release from Capcom at some point in the next few years (though the combined sales of Street Fighter 2 and 4’s various versions will be harder to top for a while still).
You can check out how Capcom’s fighting game sales and ranks have changed over the past three quarters and year thus far below.
13. Street Fighter 5 – 7.7 million
14. Street Fighter 2 (SNES) – 6.3 million
22. Street Fighter 6 – 4.1 million
24. Street Fighter 2 Turbo – 4.1 million
29. Street Fighter 4 – 3.6 million
33. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection – 3.4 million
52. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite – 2.3 million
54. Ultra Street Fighter 4 – 2.2 million
55. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds – 2.2 million
61. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (PS4, Xbox One, PC) – 2 million
64. Super Street Fighter 2 – 2 million
67. Super Street Fighter 4 – 1.9 million
68. Street Fighter X Tekken – 1.9 million
74. Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition – 1.65 million
89. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age Of Heroes – 1.4 million
97. Street Fighter 4 3D Edition – 1.3 million
103. Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition – 1.2 million
105. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 – 1.2 million
120. Street Fighter Alpha 3 – 1 million
12. Street Fighter 5 – 7.6 million
14. Street Fighter 2 (SNES) – 6.3 million
23. Street Fighter 2 Turbo – 4.1 million
26. Street Fighter 6 – 3.7 million
28. Street Fighter 4 – 3.6 million
35. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection – 3.2 million
51. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite – 2.3 million
54. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds – 2.2 million
55. Ultra Street Fighter 4 – 2.2 million
62. Super Street Fighter 2 – 2 million
64. Super Street Fighter 4 – 1.9 million
66. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (PS4, Xbox One, PC) – 1.9 million
67. Street Fighter X Tekken – 1.9 million
74. Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition – 1.65 million
89. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age Of Heroes – 1.4 million
95. Street Fighter 4 3D Edition – 1.3 million
103. Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition – 1.2 million
105. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 – 1.2 million
119. Street Fighter Alpha 3 – 1 million
12. Street Fighter 5 – 7.5 million
14. Street Fighter 2 (SNES) – 6.3 million
23. Street Fighter 2 Turbo – 4.1 million
26. Street Fighter 4 – 3.4 million
31. Street Fighter 6 – 3.3 million
34. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection – 3.1 million
52. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite – 2.2 million
53. Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds – 2.2 million
57. Ultra Street Fighter 4 – 2 million
61. Super Street Fighter 2 – 2 million
63. Super Street Fighter 4 – 1.9 million
65. Street Fighter X Tekken – 1.9 million
67. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (PS4, Xbox One, PC) – 1.8 million
72. Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition – 1.65 million
88. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age Of Heroes – 1.4 million
95. Street Fighter 4 3D Edition – 1.3 million
102. Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition – 1.2 million
104. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 – 1.2 million
119. Street Fighter Alpha 3 – 1 million