What a missed opportunity to milk their fans for $4
Oh son of a bitch.
This has me really wanting a PS4 now.
It's a fantastic game and it's only going to get better with the next big patch.
PS4 is *the* platform of choice this gen if you are into fighting games.
* = not XB1
** = not on XB1 or PC
King of Fighters XIV**
Street Fighter V*
Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator*
Ultra Street Fighter IV*
Skullgirls 2nd Encore*
Dead or Alive 5 Last Round*
Injustice*
Nitroplus Blasterz* (lol)
Blazblue Central Fiction** (some older entries on PC, CP Extend on XB1)
Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (currently ** but should on on PC and XB1 next year)
Mortal Kombat X
Tekken 7
Injustice 2
The following arcade ports are only available on PS4 (all are available on PC in ROM form, no versions on XB1)
The Last Blade 2
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
King of Fighters 94 (man, they really got start releasing the later games)
Samurai Shodown (but it's not 2)
Kizuna Encounter
Breakers Revenge
The only thing XB1 has over PS4 is Killer Instinct. It's a good game but it's not worth trading everything else.
Do we consider For Honor a fighting game?
Anyway, the 3 best fighting games of the year are not on XBox. That sounds like I'm gloating, I'm not. I'm sure plenty of XB1 owners would rather have the exclusives they have. But if you are a big fighting game fan then you would be remiss to get an XB1 over a PS4.
Last gen was a different story. 360 was competitive. They had most of the same fighters and some XBLA ports of games like Soul Calibur 1, Garou and SamSho2 that PS3 didn't have. The games also generally performed better on 360. It wasn't until the end of the generation that PS3 started getting exclusive fighting games like the latter-day Blazblues and Under Night: Inbirth.
I'm not really sure why MS stopped caring about getting support for the genre. But most of the developers are Japanese and they have generally failed to get niche Japanese support this gen.
