foxuzamaki
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Xenoverse 2 released like 2 days ago,would it even be on the chart in the 1st place?
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UK: Marvel vs Capcpom: Infinite charts at 12, Pokkén DX at 5
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it released the same day at Pokken i think.
Linkstrikesback
Member
Yes. I'm assuming it came out Friday in the UK, in which case it would be on this list had it sold well enough. Pokken only came out last week and charted, for example.
LordBaztion
Member
Retail is tanking hard.
Also surprise by horizon legs.
Also surprise by horizon legs.
Nightwing123
Member
Those are really bad number but I'm not shocked this game has gotten no hype or marketing. Personally I was not going to get the game because most of the characters I play were not in the rooster. It doesn't help that the game visually doesn't look all that appealing.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Mahvel losing to fucking Pokken. How the mighty have fallen.
Hell Iron Galaxy would be a better fit too for Marvel. Sure they're untested as far as large story content, but I think their past experience shows they at the very least would be a better partner for representing the brand. Marvel and Capcom seem incompatible as partners at this point.
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Nah this game didn't even chart in the top 40 in the UK it sold in the hundreds on the xb1 not even thousands. Switch version would have had a very good chance of outselling that honestly.
CaptainClaw
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Forza Horizon 3 doe...
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True but there wasn't some serious brand and fanbase attached to those games just slightly better licensed stuff activision normally puts out. MvC has a very vocal brand and community. Any such theoretical game would have had a hard time pr wise. Not so much now but off the back of MvC 3 there would have been some backlash to it.
frankie_baby
Member
It lanched last week, when else would it be high?
Frankly yes, those screenshots do look ugly to me. They half did the photo realistic look, and that look was never a good look for MvC. Marvel is about a Freaking comic book universe fighting characters from game series by a dev that is known for flashy use or color and animation in their games.
Mvc3's cel shaded look was the best was of translating that feel in 3d.
Here it's like the lifted the animations and the specials but they didn't take any of the style 3 (what with the comic book motif between the menus, specials, character select) had and feels significantly more generic by default. There were several specials that were in infinite that look worse than 3 because of the lack of style alone.
GTA V!?!?!?
Get out of here already, christ!
Anyway, MvC:I flopped because it doesn't have Spider-Man on the cover.
Kidding aside, I personally think the game is great and it certainly presents a better product than SFV did at launch.
Injustice 2 sales smashed it, right? Injustice certainly has a better SP package and had a massive marketing budget. Plus, thos graohics are fantastic and MvC:I has awful art direction. Hmm.
Get out of here already, christ!
Anyway, MvC:I flopped because it doesn't have Spider-Man on the cover.
Kidding aside, I personally think the game is great and it certainly presents a better product than SFV did at launch.
Injustice 2 sales smashed it, right? Injustice certainly has a better SP package and had a massive marketing budget. Plus, thos graohics are fantastic and MvC:I has awful art direction. Hmm.
Roster and presentation are killing this game point blank. Capcom holds back all their most popular characters to sell later as DLC. Marvel pushes their MCU characters that no one gives a fuck about who play these games. All wrapped up in comparatively boring visuals compared to the last game. And the soundtrack is straight up bad compared to all the previous games. Game looks like it was designed by suits in a boardroom rather than people who wanted to make something cool based on it's presentation alone.
Eh, the soundtrack is fine. MvC2 OST is hot garbage, it's just jokes.
I revisted UMvC3 after playing some of MvCI and it doesn't have imoressive graohics but it does have consistent and attractive art-direction. The aesthetic is very pleasing and cohesive. The new game is just gaudy and even grotesque at times.
The menus are super bland compared to UMvC3, too.
I picked it out out of love for the series and my god the production values are terrible all round.
The only thing that is good is the combat itself, and even that is hampered by the poor roster and thus moveset selection.
If it's like the U.S. then MvC3 performed very well and UMvC3 tanked for obvious reasons.
Man i really do hope MHW knocks it out of the park.
It came in at Number 2, there were no other new titles that week, except for some Michael Jackson game. Black Ops was number 1.
Here you go.
the_Prince89
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Why are people acting as if at the end of the day Pokken isn't a pokemon game, of course it's going to sell decently
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Because plenty of pokemon spin off games sell poorly. He'll barely any set the chart on fire and most at most decently.
A game on a single platform with a relatively limited hardware install base shouldn't be blowing out a game that's on 3 platforms, each with far more hardware sold because of their time in the market.
Capcom cut the roster, cut the teams, janked the graphics, pushed content into DLC model... all after burning customers with SFV.
A well-made MvC sequel would be well-recieved. Though personally I didn't care for the direction of MvC3.
MCUvC:I gets the disdain it deserves. Sad for Capcom overall as they were one of the best devs, but something has gone awry.
A well-made MvC sequel would be well-recieved. Though personally I didn't care for the direction of MvC3.
MCUvC:I gets the disdain it deserves. Sad for Capcom overall as they were one of the best devs, but something has gone awry.
Jaded Alyx
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1. It's a spin-off. Those don't all sell decently.
2. It's a fighting game spin-off.
3. It's a rerelease of an old game.
4. You could say the same about MvC and the Marvel brand.
New game vs. Port of a year old title
PS4/XBO userbase vs. Switch userbase
UK market
Don't think anyone expected Pokken DX to do better than MvCI.
ButteryPie
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Speaking of fighting games this gen, do we have any numbers for Killer Instinct? It was a digital only game for the longest time and is technically a limites f2p titled, but it seemed successful enough to get continuous support.
Do we have copies/licenses sold or active players or something?
Do we have copies/licenses sold or active players or something?
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I doubt Capcom expected it to come anywhere close. Thier expectations are 2 million Shipped I doubt Pokken deluxe comes close to that.
GwyndolinCinder
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Massive fan of umvc3, but im not touchin Infinite.
- Shite roster
- Shite graphics, which is important for this franchise
- Only interesting character is DLC
I'm sure Capcom is hard at work on an expensive DMC sequel after new entries in brands like Street Fighter and Marvel bomb completely.
Jawmuncher
Member
I mean, what else would Langdon and Itsuno be working on?
Sure as hell ain't Dragons Dogma 2.
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A new ip?
Patches for Dragon's Dogma Online! lol. Itsuno could be working on anything. Maybe a new IP. Hell, maybe DMC5 actually exists for some reason.
Langdon worked on Infinite, is there actual proof that he's working on something else DMC-related?
Jawmuncher
Member
Guess that's possible.
We know there was a mocap session with him and Itsuno and apparently Itsuno had no invovlement with MVCI. Capcom apparently didn't even ask him to overlook the character.
Hasn't that been the case for every DMC game after the first one
DMC2 was, well, DMC2
DMC3 feels a little bit rigid to return to after the insane freedom of on-the-fly style switching in DMC4
DMC4 is unfinished and has a recycled second half
(Real talk they added all these playable characters in DMC4:SE and couldn't even add original levels/encounters for at least Dante - I'm still salty)
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
The game have been in the development ever since 2015. Yeah, you're more likely to be right.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
They were trying to set up MVCI as GAAS so we could have few years of supports. Many fans don't like the idea because they have to pay 60 dollars for base.
They actually had a very limited budget for the SE and the initial plan was just to include Vergil.
During development Itsuno and co. decided to include Lady and Trish and had to stretch that same budget to the absolute limit to do so.
this is exactly what i been thinking too. lol. it'll be nothing short of a miraacle if that game releases without capcom finding some way to pee in their consumer's eyes
Colonel Mustard
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Well, the better game sold more. Hopefully will worldwide as well.