The excellent Super Smash Bros Ultimate on the Nintendo Switch platform is now the best-selling fighting game of all-time eclipsing sales of other fighters such as the Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat games. Digital Trends reports that the total sales for Tekken, Dragon Ball, Street Fighter, and Mortal Kombat are all between 45 million to 47 million. Super Smash Bros series total sales are now at 53.03 million copies. The latest entry Super Smash Bros Ultimate is at 15.71 million copies sold.
“SSB is not a fighting game.”
~Someone, somewhere.
Its a silly argument to have because it is a subjective label. It is, undoubtedly, different enough from what fighting games typically are and have been since their inception to consider it a sub-genre of some kind, but the label itself is neither a compliment nor an insult.
That’s because it IS the best fighting game!
Seems appropriate. Not only is Smash a mechanically sound fighting/party game that’s easy to learn to play. It’s also one of the biggest (if not the biggest) crossover ever. The charm of the game alone can carry it past most other fighters.
Terry, please! I can’t wait any longer!
It’s the most fun and least repetitive of all fighting games.
This is kind of a ridiculous complaint to make about a fighting game. This is like criticizing Chess for being repetitive. A fighting game is a competitive format. Knowing all the moves of all the characters is only the *starting point* of the game.
Right? Thank goodness Smash Bros gave us a less monotonous take on the fighting genre.
Shut the fuck up