In accordance with @GameDataLibrary on X, an account that tracks Japanese recreation gross sales, Marvel Combating: Tōkon Souls underperformed in Japan, raking in a mere 2,814 retail gross sales throughout its launch week. Retail gross sales solely account for bodily gross sales, and Japanese bodily gross sales are disproportionately excessive in comparison with different markets, with some PS5 games seeing up to 51% of sales coming from physical copies.
Nevertheless, even assuming the typical split of around 75-80% physical sales, that is solely simply barely above 10,000 unit gross sales on PS5 in Japan throughout launch week. Marvel Combating: Tōkon Souls can also be out there on each the Xbox Collection consoles and PC. Whereas Xbox knowledge is scarce, SteamDB shows that the sport peaked at 24,498 concurrent gamers on launch day, with every day peak concurrent participant counts dropping since then and on-track to peak at round 3,500 gamers on publication date.
Sport Information Library confirms that these figures are “effectively below all of the Marvel vs. Capcom video games,” and “lower than half of the Marvel Combating Assortment.” It additionally provides that Marvel Tōkon is “the worst launch for an Arc System fighter in Japan…effectively under many of the Responsible Gear, BlazBlue, and even Underneath Night time in Start.”