After Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite essentially failed to make anyone happy, the future of the iconic franchise was left up in the air and created the question as to whether another release could still grab the attention of players at large.
Pretty much all signs seem to be pointing to fans putting money where their mouth is for Marvel with Capcom recently discussing the new MvC Fighting Collection’s performance.
The corporation recently held its second quarter financial report presentation for this fiscal year where they spoke more about their current lineup of games and how they are selling.
In their Q&A session of the briefing, Capcom specifically brought up the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection as one of their main titles, and we can now know what they said thanks to a report from Gamebiz in Japan.
The report first brings up the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster apparently selling up to Capcom’s forecast at launch before getting to the game you want to hear about.
“Besides that, the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection and the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics are moving units exactly as planned, and the latter will have a physical release in November which should lead to even stronger sales,” according to Gamebiz as translated by our own Nicholas ‘MajinTenshinhan’ Taylor.
While it would obviously be even better news if the MvC collection exceeded Capcom’s expectations, this is still very good for the game and hopefully the future of the series as a whole too.
This is seemingly the first time Capcom has brought up the collection’s performance specifically, but we’ve had some previous indicators hinting at how the title is doing.
The Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection nearly topped the PlayStation 4 digital sales charts for September while also ranking in the top 20 games sold in the United States for the month too.
Despite that, however, they still haven’t provided concrete numbers as to how many people have actually purchased the collection, but we know at least it hasn’t reached a million copies since it wasn’t included on Capcom’s new platinum titles update for the quarter.
Interestingly, the series sales page still lists Marvel vs. Capcom at 11 million games sold total, which could have indicated the new collection didn’t even bridge 100,000, but it appears the company just hasn’t updated that figure all year yet for some reason.
As they also pointed out, the MvC collection is releasing its physical version later this week on November 22, so maybe that’ll be enough to cross the million mark.
Their previous fighter compilations have been a bit of a mixed bag with the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection hitting 3.4 million now, but the Capcom Fighting Collection with a focus on the Darkstalkers has yet to reach a million after two years.
It seems Marvel may end up somewhere in the middle though we’ll need to see some actual numbers to know more for sure.
On the flipside of that, however, the Gamebiz report notes that Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess missed its sales target although it apparently crossed over 500,000 copies back in August.
Capcom relayed the new action strategy game mix didn’t match up to their forecast despite strong review ratings and user reception.
They reportedly attribute this failure to their inability to generate interest and awareness of the project with their promotions ahead of release that the company will try to improve on.
As for Street Fighter 6, which is now up to 4.1 million copies sold, this is what Capcom had to say in their official report.
“Furthermore, the Company pursued wider brand recognition and an expanded user base for Street Fighter 6, the major new title in our flagship series released in the previous fiscal year, by strengthening collaboration with eSports activities.”
They also noted that sales are generally down from 2023, but this fiscal year has been rather light on major releases from series like Monster Hunter and Resident Evil.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on Marvel vs. Capcom’s continued performance and what that means for a potential sequel especially with the physical release on the horizon and Xbox version next year.
The Marvel collection was also just nominated for best fighting game at The Game Awards, so there’s a chance we could have back to back Capcom wins in that category after Street Fighter 6 won last year.