Tekken 6 ships 2.5 million in its first week

Fighting games aren’t as popular as they used to be, right? Don’t tell that to Namco Bandai, as the company has put extensive resources behind Tekken 6, including ponying up enough money for Monday Night Football ads.

Namco Bandai has also confirmed the shipping of 2.5 million copies of the sequel available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Reviews for the newest Tekken installment have been mostly favorable, although online play has come under fire for some hiccups. Kotaku even went so far as to brand Tekken 6 the Lag of Iron Fist.

The game sports a 40-character roster and a new, in-depth Scenario Campaign single-player mode.

The Tekken games have developed a strong fan following with an easy-to-learn but challenging-to-master control schemes, mapping each character’s limb attacks to the controller’s face buttons. Fighters are not as hot as they were during the days when every shopping mall had an arcade (or when every town had a shopping mall, for that matter) but Namco Bandai is hoping nearly three million units it can change that.

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