Tekken 8 is the most popular fighting game in eSports

[StRyK]

Registration for one of the largest fighting game tournaments - Combo Breaker 2024 has ended. A total of 4498 participants from 33 countries have registered

1. Tekken 8 (TWT2024 Master Event) - 1620
2. Street Fighter 6 - 1432
3. Guilty Gear -Strive- (AWT2024 Gold Event) - 863
4. Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (AWT2024 Gold Event) - 674
5. Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes - 606
6. Mystery Game Tournament - 512
7. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 405
8. Mortal Kombat 1 (MK1PK Event) - 274
9. Guilty Gear Xrd Rev2 - 238
10. Street Fighter III 3rd Strike - 221
11. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 194
12. The King of Fighters XV - 187
13. SkullGirls: 2nd Encore (SGCS LCQ) - 167
14. Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - 164
15. BlazBlue Central Fiction - 159
16. Dragon Ball FighterZ - 146
17. Killer Instinct (KI Ultra Tour) - 139
18. Vampire Savior - 117
19. Melty Blood: Type Lumina - 103
20. Samurai Shodown - 73
21. DNF Duel - 61
22. Them's Fightin' Herds - 60
23. Garou: Mark of the Wolves - 60
24. Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 - 48

[Necropants]

It's crazy how little people register for Mk1 considering how much money is in it.

[StRyK]

Originally posted by Necropants:

It's crazy how little people register for Mk1 considering how much money is in it.

This is an expected result for a game that focuses on the story campaign rather than multiplayer.

[Zenkaiboost Kekkei Genkai]

Tekken and SF are the only relevant fighting games, the rest are irrelevant af

[StRyK]

Originally posted by Legendrake:

Tekken and SF are the only relevant fighting games, the rest are irrelevant af

Guilty Gear -Strive, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising - It's a joke?

[天佑中共🐥the strongest]

Rising would be irrelevant without 2B, and Strive got hard carried by lgtvhd fans

[kiteless 凧無し]

Sorry but Tekken pro scene is trash on every level

Capcom offering up a million dollars for winning capcom cup. How did namco respond? They didn’t. 50k for winning TWT is peanuts in comparison. Tekken 8 has pretty much already died on twitch and it’s only a matter of time before the player base falls under SF6 in every region despite SF6 being 8 months older.

Really there is one competitive fighter that has an audience right now and that’s SF6. Nobody cares about any other fighter. Tekken 8 could have been a big deal but namco didn’t even try. How do you expect to grow a pro scene if you don’t invest any money into it

I feel T7 only gained traction because of now bad SF5 was but now the tables have turned. SF6 is now generally considered the superior product and T8 is a game that has been lambasted by the two very best T7 players. It doesn’t bold well for a strong future for Tekken. It’s going to be all downhill very fast

[processor.dev1l]

Originally posted by kiteless 凧無し:

Sorry but Tekken pro scene is trash on every level

Capcom offering up a million dollars for winning capcom cup. How did namco respond? They didn’t. 50k for winning TWT is peanuts in comparison. Tekken 8 has pretty much already died on twitch and it’s only a matter of time before the player base falls under SF6 in every region despite SF6 being 8 months older.

Really there is one competitive fighter that has an audience right now and that’s SF6. Nobody cares about any other fighter. Tekken 8 could have been a big deal but namco didn’t even try. How do you expect to grow a pro scene if you don’t invest any money into it

JC, the Tekken matchmaking really pissed you off big time 😂

[Icey]

tournaments are cringe

[AGA | prinnyuber]

I see 5 Arc System Works games dominate the board! Only 2 games are Namco Bandai related! It could have been 3 if Soul Calibur 6 is there!

[StRyK]

Originally posted by kiteless 凧無し:

Sorry but Tekken pro scene is trash on every level

Capcom offering up a million dollars for winning capcom cup. How did namco respond? They didn’t. 50k for winning TWT is peanuts in comparison. Tekken 8 has pretty much already died on twitch and it’s only a matter of time before the player base falls under SF6 in every region despite SF6 being 8 months older.

Really there is one competitive fighter that has an audience right now and that’s SF6. Nobody cares about any other fighter. Tekken 8 could have been a big deal but namco didn’t even try. How do you expect to grow a pro scene if you don’t invest any money into it

I feel T7 only gained traction because of now bad SF5 was but now the tables have turned. SF6 is now generally considered the superior product and T8 is a game that has been lambasted by the two very best T7 players. It doesn’t bold well for a strong future for Tekken. It’s going to be all downhill very fast

Not a single serious argument. The fact is that T8 attracted more participants to the tournament than SF6. The hype for SF6 has passed. The balance doesn't change there, Akuma turned out to be a boring copy of Ryu and Ken. People went to Tekken 8)

[processor.dev1l]

Originally posted by StRyK:

Originally posted by kiteless 凧無し:

Sorry but Tekken pro scene is trash on every level

Capcom offering up a million dollars for winning capcom cup. How did namco respond? They didn’t. 50k for winning TWT is peanuts in comparison. Tekken 8 has pretty much already died on twitch and it’s only a matter of time before the player base falls under SF6 in every region despite SF6 being 8 months older.

Really there is one competitive fighter that has an audience right now and that’s SF6. Nobody cares about any other fighter. Tekken 8 could have been a big deal but namco didn’t even try. How do you expect to grow a pro scene if you don’t invest any money into it

I feel T7 only gained traction because of now bad SF5 was but now the tables have turned. SF6 is now generally considered the superior product and T8 is a game that has been lambasted by the two very best T7 players. It doesn’t bold well for a strong future for Tekken. It’s going to be all downhill very fast

Not a single serious argument. The fact is that T8 attracted more participants to the tournament than SF6. The hype for SF6 has passed. The balance doesn't change there, Akuma turned out to be a boring copy of Ryu and Ken. People went to Tekken 8)

Akuma is not even out yet and basically all Akuma mains are waiting for the release.

[DJukor]

Its the newest game in Esports.
Its new and fresh.
So its most popular. By active player numbers alone id argue its SFVI
Guess we will see in a year or so.

[StRyK]

Originally posted by processor.dev1l:

Originally posted by StRyK:

Not a single serious argument. The fact is that T8 attracted more participants to the tournament than SF6. The hype for SF6 has passed. The balance doesn't change there, Akuma turned out to be a boring copy of Ryu and Ken. People went to Tekken 8)

Akuma is not even out yet and basically all Akuma mains are waiting for the release.

It does not change anything. SF6 needs a major update, a big new mode or a big pack of new entertainment for the battle hub. In its current state, there is simply nothing to do there for those who just come to have fun in the game.

[DJukor]

Akuma is coming out in less than a month and i don't see them doping a major balance patch before evo. Chances are they will announce a major balance patch during evo or Capcom cup finals.
I mean people are already playing major balance patch alpha version of the game during events. Drive reversal is now possible on wakup and it only light punishable not medium punishable now so this is already a big nerf to the preasure characters in the game dominating the meta.

[天佑中共🐥the strongest]

T7 Akuma >>>>