Earlier this month, we found out that
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate had become the best-selling fighting game in history, managing to outsell Capcom's iconic
Street Fighter II; the fighting game that had been holding the record pretty much since it released in the early 90s.
Masahiro Sakurai has recently revealed, however, that he still considers Street FIghter II to be the undefeated champion, stating that he believes the Capcom's iconic 2D fighting game "is still king"; regardless of
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate surpassing its lifetime sales.
In his latest column on Famitsu, Sakurai revealed that he was surprised that
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate had surpassed
Street Fighter II's lifetime sales, but mainly because the Super Smash bros. series is not even considered a fighting game, but part of the action adventure genre.
Sakurai is still honoured that
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is considered a genre-breaking game, even when the game — at least, to him — isn't a fighting game per se. That said, characters from fighting game series like
Street Fighter and even
The King of Fighters have already made their way into
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate; further establishing it as a proper fighting game, even when, from a gameplay mechanic stand point, they are different.
Legendary game worlds and fighters collide in the ultimate showdown—a new entry in the Super Smash Bros. series for the Nintendo Switch system! New fighters, like Inkling from the Splatoon series and Ridley from the Metroid series, make their Super Smash Bros. series debut alongside every Super Smash Bros. fighter in the series…EVER!
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is currently available exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.