Marvel: Tokon Preventing Souls has offered fewer copies than most different Arc System Works video games in its first week in Japan.
That’s based on Recreation Information Library on X (previously Twitter), which is reporting simply 2,814 whole copies had been offered in its first week at retail.
Recreation Information Library goes on to say, “First week retail gross sales of Marvel Toukon in Japan had been beneath 3k items. That is the worst launch for an Arc System fighter in Japan (excluding tremendous area of interest stuff like DNF Duel), nicely beneath a lot of the Responsible Gear, BlazBlue and even Underneath Evening in Start. Very poor launch.”
This quantity doesn’t embrace digital gross sales, however Recreation Information Library has ideas on that additionally, saying, “I used to be pondering 10k was pessimistic, however now even with 70% digital gross sales it’s a really lackluster consequence. For sure it’s additionally nicely below all of the Marvel vs. Capcom video games, hell, it did lower than half of the Marvel Preventing Assortment, and the retail model was late!”
The launch of Preventing Souls has acquired a Combined reception on Steam, with simply 46% of English-language critiques giving a optimistic suggestion. The sport acquired a peak concurrent participant depend of over 24,000 gamers close to launch, however it’s presently receiving fewer than 5,000 every day CCUs based on SteamDB.
The sport has seen an uphill battle since its first PC open beta, when PSN turned unavailable for an extended time frame, leaving gamers unable to attempt the sport.
Just lately, a datamine uncovered skins, a Battle Go, and probably Rocket Raccoon as an upcoming DLC character.
