Topic: Is the 3DS Fighter Surge Dead?

While the 3DS' launch was a bit bumpy, to say the least, fighter fans were well treated with titles like Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition, Dead or Alive Dimensions, and Blazblue: Continuum Shift II all hitting within the system's first few months.

The system was building a pretty solid lineup of fighters, but it that surge has seemed to stop with no signs of returning. After Blazblue was released (June 2011), there's only been one fighter since then (Tekken Prime: 3D Edition), and that was back in February, and absolutely nothing is in the works for the future (except for an indie title by way of Nicalis).

It's not like major fighters aren't on the way (Sony's Vita even has a rich upcoming line-up, I believe), so any idea as to why there have been no announcements for the 3DS?

Probably because there would be way too much. You don't want it to be the NEO GEO.

I wouldn't worry, as you already said we got a hand full of fighters and a one coming out, but maybe in the future we will get some vc fighting games and might get clayfighter call of putty if interplay stops being lazy.
edit: it wouldn't hurt to have some dlc though.

You can have too much good games? Seriously, how would a 3DS announcement of the Darkstalkers Collection or the announcement of a 3DS Soulcalibur be a bad thing?

It's not like it would affect Nintendo releasing Mario, Zelda, & Metroid games, or stop Square Enix from making RPGs, lol.

Don't forget SSB3D

I guess you're right, but it seems a tad dissapointing that there are high calibur fighters coming out, and none of them have a 3DS announcement (although I am looking forward to Yatagaratsu, the indie game).

Then again, all these upcoming titles are home console games (Vita's probably just getting them, because it can run the PS3 versions).

I'm referring to traditional fighters (although I am looking forward to it )

Although there is chance of some fighting game series coming to the 3ds, mortal kombat has a history of appearing on nintendo hand helds (gb/gbc/gba/ds) and since the creators of tekken owns soul calibur theres a chance of that appearing as well.

Trust me, you will get tired if they end up releasing 100 Copies of the same game in a month.:

With the Vita available, I should certainly hope so. It's a much better system for Fighting games.

Same genre =/= same game.

I can assure you I would nothing but thrilled to have 100 fighting games come all in the same month.

Unfortunately, I don't think DHawk even knows what a genre is.

When they make games, I prefer them to at least have a little bit of a difference. The very early Neo Geo fighters all were similar, and it wasn't really until 1995 when they really became great.

Come back when you've actually played those games, and for more than 5 minutes, because I don't believe anyone can say SamSho played the same as Fatal Fury, and that World Heroes played the same as Art of Fighting. There are plenty of differences that become obvious as you play, and what works in one game doesn't work in the others. And before you say "well the sequels were all similar" well that's how sequels work, especially in this genre. Don't fix what ain't broke, remember? It doesn't help that Fighting games are more or less a sport, and sports don't exactly evolve very often.

NO! As for the 3ds fighter surge, I wish it was over!
EDIT: I love how people act like super street fighter 4 3d is fun but in reality It's garbage in comparison to the console versions! The environments were lifeless the online was full of spammers & WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CONTROL'S their horrible!

I was hopeing for StreetFight II HD to be ported to the 3DS.
SSF4 felt like a sloppy port, but it was still fun to play.

Are you using the D-Pad or the crappy Slider?

Code of Princess is partly a fighter. And we should get Yatagarasu (By Nicalis) sometime soon.

You won't be saying that in 5 years time when the 3DS will have over 20 versions of Street Fighter.

21 if you'll be counting the Street Fighter 3D ports collection