Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves Reveals Ridiculous E-Sports Prize Pot as PS5, PS4 Fighter Gets Off to a Slow Start

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The game, Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves, aims to attract competitive gamers by offering a grand prize pool of $2.5 million at the upcoming SNK World Championships scheduled for this year.

The prize money for this event exceeds the $2 million awarded at the Capcom Cup, and it’s the highly acclaimed Street Fighter 6 that garners significantly more popularity.

The promotional efforts for this game are coming from a Japanese publisher supported by Saudi Arabia, and they’ve pulled out all the stops. We’ve seen it showcased at WrestleMania, received extensive worldwide advertising, and even recruited soccer legend Cristiano Ronaldo to join their team.

As a devoted fan, it seems like the latest release isn’t making as big of a splash as I had hoped. On Steam, the fighter only managed to gather 4,674 simultaneous players, and it’s struggling to hold its ground, sitting on page two of the top-selling games in the US on the PlayStation Store.

Absolutely, the upcoming e-sports tournament isn’t starting until late in 2025, which means it might take some time for Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves to gain traction and become popular.

SNK’s game series haven’t attracted the same level of popularity as long-standing classics such as Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Therefore, it seems likely that ongoing financial commitment will be necessary in order to achieve similar success.

Despite the success of its marketing efforts, perhaps if SNK had invested slightly more in developing the actual game and less on promoting it for their latest release, it might have yielded better results in this specific case.

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2025-04-28 13:06