Fighting Games Have Grown and Changed A Lot Since the 2020s Began

Fighting games recently entered their latest era. Since the genre’s inception, trends have naturally formed within the fighting games of each console generation. From the original golden age when Street Fighter 2 and the classic Mortal Kombat trilogy set standards on the SNES to the PS1 and Dreamcast era of 3D fighters like Tekken, Soul Calibur, and Virtua Fighter, the days on the PS2 where fighting game regulars struggled to evolve, and the return of fighting games with Street Fighter 4, Mortal Kombat 9, and many other titles on PS3 and Xbox 360, fighting games have been through a lot in the past three decades.