Almost three years after it first launched, Street Fighter 6 has hit an all-time player peak on Steam, and it's all thanks to the series' failed Ryu successor.
Street Fighter 3 and its subsequent iterations are perhaps one of the biggest examples of games not getting their flowers until much later in life. After six years of waiting for a true follow-up to Street Fighter 2, "The New Generation" arrived, with quite the literal name, as Capcom had only opted to bring back Ryu and Ken (and later Akuma and Chun-Li for later versions) and leave it at that. Street Fighter 3's new cast of characters was supposed to bring a whole new generation of fighters to the forefront of the series, but the negative reaction made it a bit of a flop and scared Capcom from excluding the Street Fighter 2 cast in any subsequent entry.
