Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection leaps over 60 spots in latest top game sales charts as Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero still dominates

A lot of people really were waiting for that physical edition it seems

While 2024 has been a pretty big year for fighting games all around, it appears there’s only a select few titles that stand a chance of going blow for blow with the Call of Duties, Maddens and Astrobots of the industry in terms of sales.

Circana (formerly the NPD Group) recently released their latest video game sales data charts that sees the return of some arcade classics and continued dominance of Dragon Ball action.

Thanks to Mat Piscatella, we can see all of the different sales charts for the United States in the month of November 2024.

The most interesting inclusion for all of us here also saw the largest leap out of the entire list for last month.

The Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection apparently fell all the waydown to 87th place in terms of sales for October, but shot up 67 spots to just barely force its way back into the top 20.

Said giant boost was certainly due to the physical version of the crossover MvC compilation launching in November after the digital edition came first in September.

So it seems a lot of players were holding out for that disc / cartridge and bonus comic book.

While the new chart is more good news for Marvel fans, it also shows how far the collection dropped after its initial month between the digital and physical releases.

The Marvel collection charted at 16th place in the U.S. in September, but then managed to fall all the way down to 87th in October — so it seems anyone who was remotely interested in the title either picked it up immediately or waited for the boxed copy.

Capcom has said the MvC collection was selling ‘exactly as planned’ after launch, however, the company has yet to release any hard numbers as to the number of copies out in the wild.

And despite charting for at least two months now, it’s looking very unlikely MvC will reach the top 20 ranks for the year as a whole, but that’s not really unexpected for a collection of arcade games that are at least 25 years old.

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero continued its dominating push as the only other fighter on the ranks for November though it wasn’t quite as high as October.

Goku and the gang remained in the top 5 overall with Madden NFL 25 and two EA Sports titles pushing it down from the number two position it held in its launch month.

Sparking Zero already became the best-selling Dragon Ball game in the U.S. in that first month, so it’s continuing to increase its lead for anything that comes after it.

For PlayStation and Xbox specifically, Dragon Ball also landed at 5th place for both systems down from 2nd in October.

Although Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8 and Mortal Kombat 1 all went on sale for Black Friday and other discounts in November too, none of them managed to claw their way back onto the monthly list like Marvel did, which is a bit more surprising.

As for the year-to-date sales for 2024 as a whole, Tekken 8 is still hanging onto its 16 place right behind Final Fantasy 7: Rebirth as a pretty encouraging sign though its cousin from the other side of Bandai Namco has far eclipsed it in America.

Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero stayed on as the fourth-best selling game in the U.S. this year still ahead of Madden and many others, which is pretty wild overall.

We’re very interested to see how the December charts shape up as well as what those end of year ranks are going to look like, but we’ll have to wait a few more weeks on that front before we get that juicy data.