Fighters Destiny - Reception and Sales

Reception and Sales

Fighters Destiny received mixed reviews; surprisingly, it garners better reviews from critics than it does from general audiences. Given the N64's almost complete lack of other quality fighting games, the press immediately seized on Fighter's Destiny as the machine's response to the Saturn's Virtua Fighter or the PlayStation's Tekken. Despite the game's critical acclaim, it missed its initial Christmas release date and was subsequently greeted with lukewarm sales figures, selling only 18,000 copies in the first two months after its North American release. As a result, Infogrames Entertainment (the parent company of Fighters Destiny international distributor Ocean Software) decided to shave US$20 off the price tag, dropping the game's price to US$29.99. "Fighters Destiny has been praised as the best fighting game for the N64 by the vast majority of video game media," said Mike Markey, vice president of sales and marketing, Infogrames Entertainment. "The aim of the new price point is to make the game more accessible to all consumers."