Marvel: Tokon Preventing Souls has offered fewer copies than most different Arc System Works video games in its first week in Japan.
That’s in response to Recreation Knowledge Library on X (previously Twitter), which is reporting simply 2,814 complete copies had been offered in its first week at retail.
Recreation Knowledge 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), effectively beneath a lot of the Responsible Gear, BlazBlue and even Below Evening in Delivery. Very poor launch.”
This quantity doesn’t embrace digital gross sales, however Recreation Knowledge 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 outcome. For sure it’s additionally effectively 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 Mixed 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 day by day CCUs in response to SteamDB.
The sport has seen an uphill battle since its first PC open beta, when PSN became unavailable for a long period of time, leaving gamers unable to attempt the sport.
Lately, a datamine uncovered skins, a Battle Pass, and potentially Rocket Raccoon as an upcoming DLC character.