It's been a year since the launch of Street Fighter 6 and Capcom is taking advantage of how much it has become, and with good reason: with more than three million copies sold and a great event to celebrate the culmination of the contents of the first season, both The Osaka company and the gaming community have good reasons to celebrate a well-deserved success. One that translates into very crazy data: did you know that More than six million matches are played every day?
On the occasion of the first anniversary of Street Fighter 6, the official website of the game has shared the metrics obtained throughout this year. Ultimately, these treasured measures are the same ones used to see to what extent the new features work and how the changes and improvements to the fighters themselves work. However, on such a special day it also leaves us with other really fun readings: who are the most popular? How much time do people spend training alone?… And the most curious of all: How much is Manual style really used?
The King of wrestling shows his most absurd figures
We start with the craziest amounts and they are quite a dragon's fist: number of battles played, game time distributed in its different modes… Have you ever wondered how long it takes to complete the World Tour? The answer is 32.3 hours on average. So why is my game log over 100 hours? In any case, this is not about averages, but about complete amounts:
2,016,231,418 matches played, which is equivalent to six million fights per day and 70 fights per second. A stupid thing. Are you one of those who usually spends time practicing combos in training instead of fighting? Only there have they been played 27.9 million hours. To put it in images, the equivalent of 3,186 years of meditation. And now that we're talking about time, pay attention to this figure: 174,928,576 hours played. An absurd amount that, according to Capcom, would allow E. Honda to circle the planet 43,385 times. In terms of gameplay, more than 350 million Perfect Parries and 363 million Counter Drive Impacts have been made in this time across all Street Fighter 6 modes.
The thing goes further: 83,431 Clubs have been created in the Battle Hub since launch and since then 11.7 billion Battle Tickets have been distributed, which are used to buy clothes, music, emotes, etc. Do you want a low number? Only 293 players were correct in predicting within the in-game polls that Uma would win the CCX event.
These are the players' favorites
Having good numbers is a very good thing, but if in the end you don't connect with the players it is bread for today and hunger for tomorrow. Luckily, both the characters and the modes have caught on very well, and the same applies to the gameplay:
Although Street Fighter 6 opted to offer three styles of play, the vast majority opt for the usual six buttons: 75.6% play in Classic, 24.1% in Modern and 0.3% mash buttons with the Dynamic that is only played in Arcade.
But for classic, classic when it comes to the use of the characters: the favorite beyond the Arcade mode is Ken Masters, followed not so closely by Ryu, with Cammy achieving the bronze medal in terms of times she is played with in the online modes… And gold in the affection of the fans!
In the World Tour we can share moments with the Street Fighter fighters and give them gifts that they like. According to Capcom data, the most beloved is Cammy who, by the way, has been given 1.83 million cans of jellied eels in that game mode to boost her affection. The other two favorites, to no one's surprise, Chun-Li and Juri. And on the fighter side we have Ken. But Capcom's Ken!
These are the plans to celebrate the anniversary… Before Season 2!
With the Akuma event served comes the new Battle Pass, which can be acquired without having to pay money and by playing; and with it a new recreation to add to a new recreation to our personal gallery (Street Fighter II Turbono less) and commemorative clothing.
But this is just the beginning: to further raise the metrics of the previous year Capcom has boosted the earning of respect in all arcades, the first tournaments based on Extreme Battles are going to be organized, objectives have been set with which to win more Tickets and item shop prices have been reduced for the first time.
And, while we're at it, it doesn't hurt to remember that on these dates the fighters Rashid, Zangief and Lilly have their birthdays, so when you play with any of them you gain more respect both for their own meter (with which to obtain titles) and for the Battle Pass.
What will come next? It is a matter of time before Capcom announces the second Fighters Pass looking ahead to the next 12 months, so it's all speculation about which characters will return and how many will be new. It is not ruled out that more modes will arrive, and the last patch was great for some characters and not so good for others, so we are sure that there will be more adjustments to keep us hooked. What is clear is that, despite everything achieved and how far it has gone, this is only the beginning to Street Fighter 6.
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