Is Street Fighter v Mortal Kombat still relevant?

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#1  Edited By SquadBroken

I was firmly in the SF camp in the 16 bit console days.  SF4 was well received and Jeff is creaming himself over the new MK.  Who will be the king of fighters?

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#2  Edited By Atlas

Surely King of Fighters XIII will be the king of fighters.
 
That or, you know, Virtua Fighter.

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#3  Edited By TheGreatGuero

It's definitely still relevant. I'm very glad to see MK is making a big violent comeback.

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#4  Edited By cooperfoyt

I think it's still relevant, but Street Fighter seems to have a pretty strong hold on the market.  Maybe I'm just too outside of the fighting community to know for sure though... 
 
I'm wondering how truthful Ed Boon was in his GB interview from E3 where he said that they had decided to do a 2D fighter before SFIV dropped. It does feel a little bit bandwagon-y to me at this point. But who knows.

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#5  Edited By WitchHunter_Z

Street Fighter was always king and still is. Unless MK9 is fantastic there's still no debate.

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#6  Edited By tebbit

I have always felt like it was between KoF and SF, while MK was just off cutting itself in a dark corner. Besides, there's plenty of room in the market for them to not be competing directly with each other. Tekken 6 sold a few million and that was in pretty much direct competition with SF4. 
 
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#7  Edited By Rhaknar

it was never relevant, we already saw a t-rated MK game, and it wasnt good. No matter how much rivalry there is between the series, theya re very different games, and especially, have way different tones

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#8  Edited By buzz_killington

Depends how good MK9 will be.

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#9  Edited By apathylad

Games are too different to mean something. The Capcom vs. SNK rivalry made more sense back in the 90's

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#10  Edited By Rayeth

IMO, MK and SF make totally different styles of fighting games.  MK always seemed much more rote and combo heavy than SF to me.

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#11  Edited By Pessh

SF > MK

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#12  Edited By MrGetBonus

I'm excited about MK9 and it looks great but we'll see. It has a lot to make up for with recent MK games.

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#13  Edited By wavegoodbye

Welcome back 1993.  You were missed.

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#14  Edited By Phazon
@WitchHunter_Z said:
" Street Fighter was always king and still is. Unless MK9 is fantastic there's still no debate. "
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#15  Edited By fearv

MORTLA COMBAT IS THE BEST CUZ IT HAZ BLOOD AND BETTA FIGHTING AND FATALYTIES AND THE GENSIS IS FASTEST

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#16  Edited By Video_Game_King
@Atlas said:
" Surely King of Fighters XIII will be the king of fighters.  That or, you know, Virtua Fighter. "
Wait, what? Why are you mixing subgenres?
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#17  Edited By StaticFalconar

It was never relevant, like Ryan said on the bombcast. Mk was all about the insane bat shit stuff and extra violence where SF there was a real game to be had. 

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#18  Edited By ryanwho

Not really. MK had to rip off Street Fighter just to become even a little relevant again.

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Street Fighter fans drive a car like this. While Mortal Kombat fans drive a car like this.