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Message: [QUOTE="IyoTheHelpfulWolf, post: 76781, member: 73981"] It depends on the game in question, but there are general trends and aspects to fighting games that will always keep them semi-niche. -Higher learning curve. There are lots of button combinations to remember, then you have to get good at inputting said combinations of buttons in sequences to the point where it's second nature, all while paying attention to someone trying to stop you from doing that who can do a 30 hit fuck you combo as naturally as they breathe. Most people do not have the time and/or energy for that between their responsibilities and other hobbies competing for their time. Meanwhile, it's much more feasible for someone playing Call of Duty to be at least decent just by playing casually. -Lack of single player content. Most fighting games are about the multiplayer aspect above all else, and to capture people that are intimidated by the sweatiness of online play, these games need good single player content, and most of them just don't compete with other genres in that regard. Street Fighter 6 has a really fun open world story mode, but it still depends on you really liking the core mechanics of Street Fighter, and there are far more content rich games with easier to grasp content for those who don't. -DLCs. This isn't exclusive to fighting games by any means, but it certainly sticks out in this genre. To get really good at a fighting game, it helps to play all the characters enough to know how they work so that you can counter them with your main. That is prohibitively expensive for a new fighting game when the base game is 60 fucking bucks, plus every season pass of 3-6 characters is like 20-30. God help you if you're in a country where the regional pricing is fucked. Meanwhile, older fighting games where you can get everything for cheap are either deader than Capcom's love for Mega Man, or full of players that have mastered the game and would scare off casual online players. -Social aspect. Team based games like Call of Duty, Siege, and so on make it easy to get a group together and have you all work toward the same goal every match. Fighting games are typically one on one, which can work, especially irl where everyone waiting their turn gets to feel the energy and hype of the current match, but it's not as inclusive as everyone getting to play all the time. Plus, newer players can feel like their contributing while the really skilled players carry the team, while in 1 on 1 fighters you only have yourself. [/QUOTE]

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