Big-Cat
Challenge accepted.
"More interest" is up for debate. How many of those people that buy DBZ and WWE have a strong interest in them? And by that, I mean, watch streams of matches, attend tournaments, learn the ins and outs of the game,etc. Fighters like Smash, Street Fighter, BlazBlue, etc. all have that done by its players. I wouldn't say a game has more people interested than another if they buy the game and then go onto something else a month later.Sales prove what mainstream or not, not what you want to believe in your little world. Sales are showing the people are more interested in WWE games and DBZ games than other "fighting," games.
Your logic is severely flawed. You're forgetting one major reason why Street Fighter hasn't generated the sales of SFII. This one reasons also makes your two reasons not as relevant. And that reason is:Sales show what people are buying. What they are spending their hard earned cash on, and what, as a result, they are playing (as we buy games to play them). Most of the fighting game series sell at 1-2 million at best. The exceptions are Street Fighter, Smash Brothers and Tekken, but let's look at them more. Tekken has been declining since 3. 6 sold between the 1-2 million. Street Fighter 2 was a huge success but it faltered with Alpha and 3. Street Fighter 4 was suppose to be a huge revival, but it only sold 2/3 of the second game when 1)It was on two systems and 2)When there was a larger videogame market (thanks to population growth). It was unable to bring back players who had left the genre.
Street Fighter II was a one of a kind game at its debut. Now, you have all sorts of fighters. Even with more people out there, there's no guarantee they'll go to a particular game, and that's excluding the fact that people will play more than one fighter. Basically, there is way more competition now than there was then. Smash Bros. manages to get away to a certain degree because it's the only quality platform fighter out there.
Seriously, SmashChu, what ARE you trying to accomplish with all of this? That Brawl is a good game? Just give it up. You've been going at this for years. You're not convincing anyone with your insane logic.