Street Fighter V did okay (albeit a bit below expectations), but Capcom is aware that it could have done better if they made some different decisions, judging by their comments during the investors' briefing. Capcom will probably take that to heart going forward. That said, SFV is a massive success from a competitive perspective, going by the 4k+ SFV entrants at EVO this year.
Yeah, but most likely straightet out deals for a game while beeing at/shortly afterwards.
As far as promoting characters go, I wouldn't expect much in the name of promoting characters who have plans far in the future since Marvel Entertainment is now separate from Marvel Studios. The farthest they'll go as far as MCU plans go would be Inhumans, with its delay & Kevin Feige's recent comments likely have it pegged as a Phase 4 film.
You forget that Marvel Heroes was made before Contest of Champions (which was the cut-off point before the ban went into effect), so Gazillion isn't bound by the recent restrictions. They're in the clear until 2019, when they have to renew their contract. And even then, they already pissed off Marvel once already by doing a Fant4stic promotional event. Marvel can't do much else to them right now because they never signed their contract when the ban was in effect. But when 2019 rolls by, expect some major changes.
The one big company is Sony and the other is Marvel. Of course there can be a connection. There can always be a clause. These companies even have clauses about merchandise.
That said, you think Sony would stand a chance in trying to convince Marvel to make an exception for the ban? Clearly WB Games couldn't do shit (hence Lego Avengers), so I'm not too sure about Capcom & Sony's chances of changing their minds. While the guys at Marvel Games sound like pretty cool people, Ike Perlmutter is one stubborn motherfucker.
Well Revy, no Activision pretty much means no Marvel Ultimate Alliance, which would be to the disappointment of a number of people in this thread. But I overall approve of this new direction, as long as such plans include Capcom & MvC4.
Here's hoping. At the very least, Capcom should be able to do whatever they want with the game & only have to get Marvel's approval for characters. This would be beneficial for if Capcom wants to expand the Capcom Pro Tour to accommodate the hypothetical MvC4.
That's a common misconception. Capcom would have released Street Fighter V with or without Sony, but it would have been a 2018 release. All Sony did was speed up the process.
This is most likely how it went down.
Worst necro bump ever
FTFY
