SFII SNES is Capcom's best-selling game

By Tom Bramwell Published 27 May, 2008

Although Resi has lots to say about it.

Capcom has revealed that Street Fighter II for the Super Nintendo is still its best-selling game of all time.

The most recent additions to the publisher's 46-strong list of platinum-selling (one million plus) games are Devil May Cry 4 (2.3 million), Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (2.15m), Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (1.25m) and Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (1.05m).

However, if you add the Wii Edition sales of Resident Evil 4 to its PS2 (2m) and GameCube (1.6m) lifetime sales, you get 4.85 million, which would put that game's cumulative iterations in at number three on the all-time list, ahead of Street Fighter II Turbo on the SNES (4.1m) but behind Resident Evil 2 (4.96m).

Series-wise, Resident Evil wins whichever way you do the counting, having sold 34.5 million units across 50 titles (presumably Capcom means SKUs), while Mega Man is on 28m and Street Fighter manages 25m. In news that will keep Eurogamer contributor John Walker happy, the Ace Attorney series now accounts for 2.8m sales.

Platinum-selling games:

  1. Street Fighter II (released June 1992, SFC, 6,300,000 units sold)
  2. Resident Evil 2 (January 1998, PS, 4,960,000)
  3. Street Fighter II Turbo (July 1993, SFC, 4,100,000)
  4. Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (September 1999, PS, 3,500,000)
  5. Resident Evil (March 1996, PS, 2,750,000)
  6. Dino Crisis (July 1999, PS, 2,400,000)
  7. Devil May Cry 4 (January 2008, PS3, Xbox 360, 2,300,000)
  8. Devil May Cry (August 2001, PS2, 2,160,000)
  9. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (February 2007, PSP, 2,150,000)
  10. Onimusha: Warlords, (January 2001, PS2, 2,020,000)
  11. Resident Evil 4, (December 2005, PS2, 2,000,000)
  12. Super Street Fighter II (June 2006, 1994, SFC, 2,000,000)
  13. Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny, (March 2003, PS2, 1,990,000)
  14. Aladdin (November 1993, SFC, 1,750,000)
  15. Devil May Cry 2 (January 2003, PS2, 1,700,000)
  16. Duck Tales, (January 1990, FC, 1,670,000)
  17. Street Fighter II' Plus (September 1993, MD, 1,650,000)
  18. Ghosts'n Goblins (June 1986, FC, 1,640,000)
  19. Resident Evil 4 (January 2005, GC, 1,600,000)
  20. Onimusha 3: Demon siege (February 2004, PS2, 1,520,000)
  21. Mega Man 2 (December 1998, FC, 1,510,000)
  22. Lost Planet Extreme Condition (December 2006, Xbox 360, 1,500,000)
  23. Final Fight (December 1990, SFC, 1,480,000)
  24. Resident Evil Outbreak (December 2003, PS2, 1,450,000)
  25. Duck Tales (September 1990, GB, 1,430,000)
  26. Resident Evil Code Veronica X (March 2001, PS2, 1,400,000)
  27. Dead Rising (August 2006, Xbox 360, 1,400,000)
  28. Resident Evil (March 2002, GC, 1,350,000)
  29. Mega man Battle Network 4 (December 2003, GBA, 1,350,000)
  30. Devil May Cry 3 (February 2005, PS2, 1,300,000)
  31. Resident Evil 0 (November 2002, GC, 1,250,000)
  32. Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition (May 2007, Wii, 1,250,000)
  33. Magical Quest Starring Mickey (November 1992, SFC, 1,210,000)
  34. Resident Evil DC Dual Shock (August 1998, PS, 1,200,000)
  35. Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers (June 1990, FC, 1,200,000)
  36. Dino Crisis 2 (September 2000, PS, 1,190,000)
  37. Mega Man X (December 1993, SFC, 1,160,000)
  38. Monster Hunter Freedom (December 2005, PSP, 1,150,000)
  39. Resident Evil Code Veronica (February 2000, DC, 1,140,000)
  40. Commando (September 1986, FC, 1,140,000)
  41. Resident Evil Director's Cut (September 1997, PS, 1,130,000)
  42. Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts (October 1991, SFC, 1,090,000)
  43. Mega Man 3 (September 1990, FC, 1,080,000)
  44. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (November 2007, Wii, 1,050,000)
  45. Final Fight 2 (May 1993, SFC, 1,030,000)
  46. Street Fighter Alpha 3 (December 1998, PS, 1,000,000)

Series sales:

  1. Resident Evil Series (50 titles, 34,500,000)
  2. Mega Man Series (120 titles, 28,000,000)
  3. Street Fighter Series (59 titles, 25,000,000)
  4. Disney Series (33 titles, 13,200,000)
  5. Devil May Cry Series (10 titles, 9,500,000)
  6. Onimusha Series (12 titles, 7,800,000)
  7. Monster Hunter Series (10 titles, 6,300,000)
  8. Dino Crisis Series (13 titles, 4,400,000)
  9. Ghosts 'n Goblins Series (15 titles, 4,300,000)
  10. Final Fight Series (10 titles, 3,200,000)
  11. Breath of Fire Series (15 titles, 3,000,000)
  12. Ace Attorney Series (11 titles, 2,800,000)
  13. Commando Series (2 titles, 1,200,000)
  14. 1942 Series (3 titles, 1,200,000)

Thanks Kotaku!

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Comments (16) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • anomagnus #1 4 years ago

    i remember being the first kid in school to have it

    60 QUID!!!!

    Funny how snes games were madly over priced, 16 years on, they're still 60 quid

    but WHAT a game, it was like opening up the ark of covenant

    i have expected spirits to fly out of it, and kill any fool unworthy of the game

  • bengray66 #2 4 years ago

    Dead Rising (August 2006, Xbox 360, 1,400,000)


    Thats criminal, Dead Rising is one of the hidden gems on the 360..

  • Charlie_Miso #3 4 years ago

    list!

  • McFly55 #4 4 years ago

    DuckTales on the NES was great

  • DFawkes #5 4 years ago

    McFly55 +1

    Although I can't remember for the life of me what it was like, but I know I loved it. Think it was identical on Game Boy too.

  • the_dudefather #6 4 years ago

    Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers (June 1990, FC, 1,200,000)

    why are there so few coop plaformer games?

    thank christ for Littlebigplanet

  • aine #7 4 years ago

    presumably Capcom means SKUs

    NO! NO THEY DON'T FUCK OFF ARGH

  • septimus #8 4 years ago

    I still have my copy of SFII on the SNES. My Turbo died sadly. Also have Champion Edition on the MegaDrive which is surprisingly good still.

  • bengray66 #9 4 years ago

    Your right the more i think about, 1.4 million is actually quite impressive! I was going for the everyone should own it angle ;)
    Where's the sequel i cry!

  • nickthegun #10 4 years ago

    Blimey, I didnt realise Dino Crisis was so popular.

    Heh....Regina...

  • anomagnus #11 4 years ago

    i still remember the review

    wipes tears from his eyes - those were the gaming days of old, when mode 7 was trickery the likes of which the devil himself was impressed with.

    super aleste, actraiser, cybernator, glorious times.

  • rhinoxious #12 4 years ago

    £60 plus 15 years of compound inflation . . . carts certainly were expensive!

  • IneptPercy #13 4 years ago

    Its a shame killer 7 and Okami are nowhere to be seen, I really loved killer 7 myself.

    As mentioned game prices have actually come down when you think about it, not only did games use to cost £60 but that was more money back then if you take price indexes into account.

  • bad09 #14 4 years ago

    Resi top series and rightly so! I love 'em all but PLEASE Capcom give us some new true resi action as well as no. 5. I love the new style of play, but it's not true Resident Evil is it.......

    / remembers playing RE1,2,3 & CV. Good times, Good times.....

  • BadBoyBonner #15 4 years ago

    Super Ghouls & Ghosts would have done much better than just over a million if it had come out later in the Snes's life - one of my all time fav Snes games - it looked and sounded amazing with the best G&G gameplay of it's time.

    Anomagnus

    Don't forget some people will know Super Aleste as Space Megaforce - what a bloody achievement that was - still impressed to this day. When Super R-Type was slowing down with about 5 things on screen - Super Alste was rocking the Snes hardware.

    Infact - had it running on the DS through emulation and IMO blows every other DS shooter away that has been natively coded on the DS - and that was through emulation?!?!?!?!?! Go figure, guy must have been a genius coder.

    £60? you got off lightly - both my SFII and SFII Turbo Japanese imported copies cost me £75.

    That said - it must have paid for itself many times over with the amount of cash I was shoveling into the arcade machines.

  • Unknown27 #16 4 years ago

    11 Ace Attorney titles!!!!

    I can only think of the three GBA originals, the three DS remakes and Apollo Justice and that's only 7, even if you count the forthcoming titles Perfect Prosecutor and Ace Attorney 5 that's 9!

    Anyone know what the others are?