While SNK devotes most of its efforts toward its King of Fighters series, the Fatal Fury series has remained dormant for 25 years. With the former series already featuring many of Fatal Fury‘s characters, it’s hard to imagine why players familiar with SNK’s niche titles would make the switch.

I’m sorry, but this is terrible analysis. You may as well say no one would play Street Fighter because those characters are in Marvel Vs. Capcom.

The single player offering is weak. The author and I agree that has an impact on sales. The graphics aren’t bad, but the presentation doesn’t really floor you like some other recent fighting games do. SNK has had a rough go of it with the netcode in their games, and people were burned by the non-functional matchmaking in KOFXV for over a year; beta 1 for CotW made it look like history would repeat itself. Ronaldo doesn’t help, but what would have helped is if, like Street Fighter and Tekken, it could have scored a 90 on review aggregators and been called a can’t-miss game, but to do that, they’d have to have addressed the above.