Now I'm kind of sad that pure 2D fighters never quite recovered. It's mostly niche stuff now except for BB and KOF. Yeah, SG is probably niche. AH, UNIEL and the rest are even more niche than that too.
I'm not misunderstanding anything. His post was about DC sales and I took it a bit further by bringing up PS1 and arcades which I even apologized for since it felt like I was going off on a tangent of sorts. I'm not seventeen years old. I was already in my teens and felt the impact of 3D. The only big 2.5D fighter in town was Smash to boot. If the poster I quoted had mentioned 3D I would have gone into it. As it stands that was just another one of the many factors that helped to bury 3S and 2D fighter popularity in general. BTW you didn't bother to address anything I said about the PS1. If the most well known port of your main entry in a flagship IP is on the most notorious failed console (soon to be usurped by Wii U probably lol) of all time then your support ain't worth much. I'll be fair and admit there isn't much that is clear to address so I'll just leave the pages discussing that whole mess below.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1119842&highlight=jojo&page=10
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1119842&highlight=jojo&page=11
Edit: Found a better post on the subject with better followups.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=180770284&postcount=848
Edit#2: Feel free to eat me alive on the line "As it stands that was just another one of the many factors that helped to bury 3S and 2D fighter popularity in general. BTW you didn't bother to address anything I said about the PS1". You explained plenty, but somehow I missed it. Still doesn't change the fact that going from 60k sales to 1 MILLION is a massive improvement no matter how you see it.
There have been worse fighters and after nearly a decade people were thirsty.