Mortal Kombat 1 failed to chart despite Khaos Reigns release last month
Although the Marvel vs. Capcom series went almost completely silent over the past 7 years, their latest revival appears to be showing that fans will still show up for the big crossover.
Circana (formerly the NPD Group) recently released their latest video game sales charts where the Marvel vs. Capcom Collection managed to reach among the top ranks while Mortal Kombat 1 did not.
According to the sales data shared by Mat Piscatella for September 2024, Marvel vs. Capcom managed to hit in the top 20 chart for the United States in its launch month.
The collection finished in 16th place overall.
That placement may not sound like the most impressive thing in the world, but it’s very rare for a retro collection to reach the top 20, let alone one for fighting games.
It also released in a month with seven other new titles that charted, and Marvel managed to even beat out Space Marine 2 for sales.
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This comes after the MvC collection previously almost topped PlayStation’s download charts for September too.
We have to remember too that this is only counting the digital sales for Marvel since the physical edition doesn’t release until November, so there will be another release wave soon (plus an Xbox version coming in 2025).
Capcom themselves, however, have not commented specifically on MvC’s numbers so far, which at least indicates the collection hasn’t reached 1 million copies sold yet.
Despite that, the Arcade Classics Marvel compilation appears to be off to a strong start in a month where it was the only fighting game to chart (after none of them did in August).
Even with the boost from the Khaos Reigns expansion launching in September, Mortal Kombat 1 did not hit the top 20 for the second month in a row.
This isn’t too surprising, though, as Mortal Kombat 11’s Aftermath release was also not enough to push it back on the charts a few years ago either.
We know the latest Mortal Kombat already crossed over 4 million in sales though it’ll be interesting to know how much more that changes in the coming months.
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As for Tekken 8, Bandai Namco’s fighter is still hanging on in the year to date sales chart for all of 2024.
Tekken did drop a few spots from 11th to 13th place for the year, but that’s still a pretty good sign the game is continuing to sell decently even if it’s not making the monthly top 20 these past few months.
Hopefully, this apparent success for the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection spells good things for its future and is enough to get the pipeline started on something new eventually.