The record of 66,317 simultaneous players that Street Fighter 6 has achieved today leaves in nothing the 14,783 concurrent patrons that Street Fighter V (2016) managed to gather at its peak. It must be taken into account that this figure was registered seven years ago and during all this time the number of Steam users has grown considerably. It also seems that interest in fighting games has increased. This is the only way to explain why we have so many titles in this veteran genre on the way or already available and in shape.
Street Fighter 6 is not only the game in the series that has managed to gather the most players on Steam, but it has also surpassed all the competition. Throughout its history, Tekken 7 (2017) has gathered a maximum of 18,966 users and Guilty Gear Strive (2021) 31,156 users, while Mortal Kombat X (2015) and Mortal Kombat 11 (2019) have added 15,743 and 35,147 concurrent players, respectively. All these numbers are courtesy of SteamDB.
To the success among PC players that Street Fighter 6 has garnered, we must add that of critics. The title has an average score of 92 out of 100 in OpenCritic and Metacritic. Today Street Fighter 6 is one of the titles most valued by the press so far this year. This note allows him to surpass Diablo IV (89), tie with the remake from Resident Evil 4 (92) and is only surpassed by The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (96). There’s still the second half of the year ahead with releases like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Starfield, Final Fantasy XVI, Alan Wake 2 and Mortal Kombat 1, but Street Fighter 6 won’t take its note anymore.
With this reception, Capcom will have an easier time meeting its sales goal, which consists of ship 10 million copies of Street Fighter 6. If it succeeds, this installment will have far surpassed Street Fighter V, which ended its life cycle with 7 million units sold.
