Street Fighter 6 And Mortal Kombat 1 Among Best Selling Games of 2023

Video games love posting their metrics. The sales milestones, concurrent players, monthly unique players, hours players, the list goes on. However, the publishers tend to be very secretive about the performance unless it has a direct benefit, often leaving us in the dark about how poorly or well a certain game did.

Mat Piscatella of Circana helps to shed just a bit of light on this issue, with a very exhaustive thread that you should definitely check out if you have any interest in the business side of the industry. Otherwise, this post is mostly focused on the inclusion of fighting games in his report.

I'm happy to say that despite our favorite genre still being relatively niche, the sales actually paint a somewhat different story, with Mortal Kombat 1 and Street Fighter 6 going toe-to-toe against titles like Final Fantasy XVI and the new Call of Duty.

With Tekken 8 on the horizon, it would be interesting to see how well it performs by comparison, as it was always one of the bigger titles in the industry, with a big mass appeal.