How much revenue did Street Fighter V make?

$10.1M–$27.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Street Fighter V sell?

Q: How many copies did Street Fighter V sell?

1.8M to 3.0M copies, based on its 44k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1.8M–3.0M; $10.1M–$27.2M after Steam's cut $18.4M–$41.8M before Steam's cut; from 44k reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Street Fighter V and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Street Fighter V's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.2M–2.7M

best case 4.3M (TEKKEN 7)

Games like Street Fighter V

A typical game among these

≈ 1.2M–2.7M copies

≈ $17.3M–$53.5M after Steam's cut

from ~31k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: TEKKEN 7 at ≈ 3.3M–5.3M copies, ≈ $36.2M–$97.2M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fighting (8 of 8) and 2D Fighter (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting + Competitive, priced around $40.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition 2013	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $7.0M–$18.8M after Steam's cut $12.7M–$29.0M before Steam's cut	$19.99	20k reviews Very Positive	FightingSuperhero
Ultra Street Fighter® IV 2014	Est. copies ≈ 955k–1.6M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.9M–$21.2M after Steam's cut $14.3M–$32.6M before Steam's cut	$29.99	17k reviews Very Positive	FightingArcade
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 468k–760k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	19k reviews Very Positive	FightingGore
Street Fighter™ 6 2023	Est. copies ≈ 2.0M–3.2M 2.5x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $21.8M–$58.7M after Steam's cut $39.7M–$90.3M before Steam's cut	$39.99	80k reviews Very Positive	2D FighterFighting
Injustice™ 2 2017	Est. copies ≈ 846k–1.4M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $11.6M–$31.3M after Steam's cut $21.1M–$48.1M before Steam's cut	$49.99	25k reviews Very Positive	FightingAction
DRAGON BALL FighterZ 2018	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.8M 2.4x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $38.6M–$103.7M after Steam's cut $70.1M–$159.5M before Steam's cut	$59.99	77k reviews Very Positive	FightingAnime
Rivals of Aether 2017	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$29.2M after Steam's cut $19.7M–$44.9M before Steam's cut	$29.99	38k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	Fighting2D Fighter
TEKKEN 7 2017	Est. copies ≈ 3.3M–5.3M 3.0x vs typical SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $36.2M–$97.2M after Steam's cut $65.7M–$149.5M before Steam's cut	$39.99	96k reviews Very Positive	FightingAction