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It's Chun-Li's 57th Birthday!
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Mikado
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Despite the hate Aloy gets in certain areas, her franchise has sold over 32 million copies in less than 8 years. It's probably lost on people how big that actually is.
Street Fighter since its inception has 55 million unit sales. Since 1987... Nearly 40 years ago...
Resident Evil 3 remake sold 9.6 million units. The best-selling street fighter ever (SF5) sold 7.7 million units.
Nydius
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People didn’t buy HZD/HFW for Aloy. They bought them in spite of Aloy. Varl could have been the main character and it would have sold the same.
Andrew Evenstar
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And still luk'n good. Western Devs furious.
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Do you have any evidence of that?
Danjin44
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I can guarantee you 2B is more popular than Aloy.
ReyBrujo
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That someone knows a character by name doesn't mean it's popular. Popularity is knowledge + fandom around it. Chun Li and Lara are popular, you can see people cosplaying them everywhere, you can see fanart and websites dedicated to them, merchandise, etc. They are a few steps above Jill personally. Aloy doesn't reach that level at all, nor Ellie for that matter.
I would say Chun Li was probably one of the first characters I choose to play with just because of how she looked in arcades. However she didn't get as empowered as Lara Croft and Capcom limited her to a support character (which I guess it was usually the norm for Japanese companies).
I would say Chun Li was probably one of the first characters I choose to play with just because of how she looked in arcades. However she didn't get as empowered as Lara Croft and Capcom limited her to a support character (which I guess it was usually the norm for Japanese companies).
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Didn't expect a waifu battle in here, but let's do it
Wii Fit sold like 25 million and yet the Wii Fit Trainer Girl is not a major cultural icon. Likewise, this is correct
Also, get out of here with this Lara Croft nonsense. Chun-Li is still more iconic and longstanding of an icon. Take YouTube search which is where the pulse of young people is, over past 5 years, and you see it.
And she's not even in the name or title of any game or movie, so every search is just for the character; whereas the media franchises around Lara Croft's name are all that have sustained a very bland character who doesn't even have a recognizably consistent appearance cross eras, with at least 3 or 4 totally unrecognizable design variations that hold zero nostalgia for anyone.
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Wii Fit sold like 25 million and yet the Wii Fit Trainer Girl is not a major cultural icon. Likewise, this is correct
Aloy has borderline zero presence as a cultural icon and never will, whether or not people played games she was in. Chun-Li does; her image is one of the most recognizable symbols in gaming, a shorthand for the world of the arcade just like a drawing of Pac Man is.
Also, get out of here with this Lara Croft nonsense. Chun-Li is still more iconic and longstanding of an icon. Take YouTube search which is where the pulse of young people is, over past 5 years, and you see it.
And she's not even in the name or title of any game or movie, so every search is just for the character; whereas the media franchises around Lara Croft's name are all that have sustained a very bland character who doesn't even have a recognizably consistent appearance cross eras, with at least 3 or 4 totally unrecognizable design variations that hold zero nostalgia for anyone.
Now back to the main event:
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