

Hopefully the game does well enough to warrant another title for the franchise, otherwise, this could be the last one. It’s obvious that Okubo and his team are pulling out all of the stops with this title, and now we can see why they have so many things leading up to its release, including guest fighter Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher series.

The game has shopped two million copies, which is definitely flattering for a franchise. Then, Okubo was asked if this would be the last game in the series, and he was quite frank with his response, “Yeah, that’s right. We don’t want to blackmail the users by saying that it could be the last one, but as it is, yes. Since the SoulCalibur brand is facing a crisis, we have nothing to lose, so we just decided to do what we want to do.” You can’t be any more cut and dry with an answer like that. Bandai Namco just announced that its popular fighting game SoulCalibur VI has passed a new sales milestone. It took time for me to convince the company.” It was actually facing a crisis of maybe disappearing. 1 X360: SOUL CALIBUR IV 'Soul Man' 2 1 (7 wks) Sam & Dave, 'When. He stated “The first thing is that the IP itself of the SoulCalibur franchise had low expectations from the company. 30 6 Questions: Shwayze, Global Pulse 33 Reviews 35 Happening Now IN EVI1RY ISSUE. With this in mind, interviewed the producer of Soul Calibur, Motohiro Okubo, at Gamescom 2018 who explained why it took six years for another Soul’s game to come out.

The previous game in the series, Soul Calibur V, wasn’t a terrible game by any means, but it didn’t sell nearly as well as SoulCalibur IV, falling below sales expectations and forcing Bandai Namco to regroup with the franchise. 57 As of July 2021, the game has sold over two million copies worldwide. 56 In 2019, Namco reported the launch as 'successful'. Despite all of these reveals and announcements, the real question is whether the game will be successful sales-wise. Sales were reported to be up from Soulcalibur V and compared to Soulcalibur III, Soulcalibur and Soul Blade, but still lower than Soulcalibur II and Soulcalibur IV.
