Street Fighter III (2026)

Street Fighter 6 achieves what few fighting games manage: satisfying the most demanding competitive players while fully welcoming newcomers. Dense yet readable, spectacular yet understandable, it lays the foundation for a long e-sports cycle, supported by deep systems and a very comprehensive content offering.

Even though Streetfighter 6 has been doing the rounds for the previous two years, it holds up incredibly well on the new Nintendo hardware. Yes, it has its limited graphical settings but the game is still crisp thanks to the incredible DLSS at work. With accessible control schemes that welcome even new players of the franchise, you will enjoy every fight, every special move, and every KO. Streetfighter 6 gets the Thumb Culture Gold Award.

The unlikely addition of the best version of Street Fighter in years actually landing on a Nintendo console is a great aspect of the Switch 2 launch that genuinely elevates the system’s profile. With Virtua Fighter 5 REVO waiting in the wings with a yet-unannounced release date, and Soul Calibur II sitting there on the NSO GameCube app right from launch, Street Fighter 6 is the centerpiece of the best start a Nintendo console has ever had for fighting games.

Street Fighter 6 for Switch 2 is the whole game in as much of its glory as you can expect on a portable platform.

Street Fighter 6 is the best fighting game that has ever been possible to play in portable format, a version managed very competently by Capcom. However, the 30fps in World Tour is a very ugly blemish on the quality of a brilliant package.