Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls Looks to Have Sold Almost Half a Million Copies in a Week, in Spite of Launch-Day Performance Problems

8 Years Later, Marvel Tokon Team's 10/10 Dragon Ball Fighting Game Still Holds Up

Arc System Works has another hit on its hands in Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls. It survived a rough Windows PC launch on its way to half a million copies sold and an 86 on Metacritic, though reviewers have largely only played the PlayStation 5 version. The anime-inspired fighter pits 21 of your favorite Marvel characters against each other, and breaks new ground for the genre with its four-person teams sharing one health bar.

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls looks to have sold almost half a million copies in a week, in spite of launch-day performance problems

New sales estimates show that Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls may have sold almost 500,000 copies in around a week, a solid pace for a fighting game.

Deadpool's absurd Street Fighter 2-style win screens break the fourth wall referencing other games, memes and the developers themselves

Despite its PC launch issues, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls clearly had a lot of love and attention poured into the project by Arc System Works. And nowhere is this more clear than their take on Deadpool where his entire moveset references other fighting games to an absurd level, but he doesn't stop there either.

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Underperforms With Less Than 500K Sales In Launch Week

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