Anyone that says a single thing about arcades is a retarded zoomer that has never been in one.
Fighters were only big in arcades in really poor areas, in most places you'd have maybe three people that gave a shit about a fighter beyond button mashing once and moving on to other games. Nogs played them nonstop because if you were good one quarter would keep you playing a long time.

99.9% of SF2's popularity was from console release, and SF4 is/was the biggest street fighter ever on purely on consoles outside of Japan.

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It's anything but.