Street Fighter 6 hits new all-time concurrent player count on Steam following latest update

Prior to the launch of Street Fighter 6, Capcom claimed that they hoped the game would wind up pushing 10 million copies. Upon its release, SF6 proved to be a big hit, selling 1 million copies in its first 3 days while going on to break the concurrent player record for any fighting game on Steam. Despite closing in on 3 years since launch, Street Fighter 6 has found a second life, with its latest update helping the title to achieve a new record player count.

Upon its initial release, Street Fighter 6 came out the gate swinging, with Capcom’s latest fighting game launching to a peak concurrent player count of 70,573. At the time, this put SF6 as the most-played fighting game in Steam history, with the previous record going to Mortal Kombat 11 (with a peak CCU of 35K).

Since then Street Fighter 6’s player counts have ebbed and flowed with each update – though none have been able to surpass its launch highs. That said, in the wake of SF6’s latest update (which introduces fan-favourite character Alex alongside a bunch of balance tweaks) the game has managed to outdo itself with a peak CCU of 72,067 players.

Compared to its contemporaries, Street Fighter 6 seems to be having quite long legs, with the likes of Tekken 8 and Mortal Kombat 1 seeing pretty low CCU numbers (their 24hr peaks are currently resting at 9,563 and 1,386 respectively.)

With Street Fighter 6 sitting at 6 million copies sold, and now seeing a new surge in players, it’s safe to assume that Capcom will manage to hit their 10 million target sooner or later.

KitGuru says: What do you think of the latest update? Are you hopping back into SF6? Between it, Tekken 8 and MK1 which has been your favourite fighting game? Let us know down below.

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