Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls sold 2,814 retail copies in its first week on sale in Japan, according to figures from the tracker Game Data Library reported by Video Games Chronicle. Game Data Library calls the result the worst launch for an Arc System Works fighting game in Japan outside of niche releases, and posted the numbers on X on August 21.
First week retail sales of Marvel Toukon in Japan were below 3k units. This is the worst launch for an Arc System fighter in Japan (excluding super niche stuff like DNF Duel), well below most of the Guilty Gear, BlazBlue and even Under Night in Birth. Very poor launch.
The count is boxed sales only and excludes digital purchases. Game Data Library said it had considered a 10,000-copy estimate pessimistic before the figures landed, and that even assuming digital accounted for 70 percent of sales the result would still be lacklustre.
The tracker put the figure below every Marvel vs. Capcom release and at less than half of what the Marvel Fighting Collection managed, despite that compilation's retail version arriving late. The comparisons it reached for — Guilty Gear, BlazBlue, Under Night In-Birth and DNF Duel — are all Arc System Works' own fighters rather than the wider genre.
A rocky launch elsewhere too
Reception on Steam has been Mixed, with 46 percent of English-language reviews recommending the game, VGC reports. The fighter peaked above 24,000 concurrent players around launch but is now drawing fewer than 5,000 daily concurrents, according to SteamDB, roughly a fifth of its opening peak.
The game's problems predate release. A PlayStation Network outage during its first PC open beta took the service down for a long stretch and left players unable to get into the test at all. A datamine has since turned up references to skins, a battle pass and Rocket Raccoon as a possible future DLC character.
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