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UK: Ultra Street Fighter II outsold Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite first week in the UK
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The second pic isn't mvci
20 dollars? Capcom would do that PER game!
tkscz
Member
Riiight.
This is nonsense.
This did not help your argument at all.
Razgriz-Specter
Member
.RE5(2009):
MvC3:
MvCIreveal)
It certainly does when Capcom does a half-assed attempt. Presentation wise, the game is terrible.
I'd rather they use UMvC3's aesthetic, buffed it up, made it 2v2, stones, etc. Rather than what we have now. Infinite is frankly, embarassing.
Good lawd did that guy actually think the second pic was from Infinite? People just turn into nutjobs when it comes to that game.
I agree, it doesn't help my argument at all...if you suffer from glaucoma.
Stone Ocean
Member
The game also bombed on Steam. If you think the US will carry sales you're way too optmistic.
I think it's hilarious that MvC3 had a Vita port but a Switch version of MvCi is out the question.
This alongside the Megaman Collection, Disney Afternoon, and Okami, It's like Capcom doesn't want easy money.
0 until Disney gets the X-Men back, which is never.
This alongside the Megaman Collection, Disney Afternoon, and Okami, It's like Capcom doesn't want easy money.
0 until Disney gets the X-Men back, which is never.
Good games and Fifa.
TheTylerRob
Member
Not being able to tell the difference doesn't help your argument.
clay_ghost
Member
I doubt sales of MVC:I for switch will be great either, its just not an appealing game.
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
I don't think MVC looks appealing at all, which is why I skipped it, but I also don't think TvC looks any better, technically or artistically. There is nothing in that screenshot of TvC that stands out as looking dramatically better than MvC:I.
I feel at this point people are just looking to take whatever shots they can at the game, even if it does come down to subjective opinion. I'd love to actually know what it is about TvC's art style save for the character portraits that looks better than MvC:I there, as I'm really not seeing it.
TheDinoman
Member
The Wii U burned third parties mega hard. A lot of people weren't expecting Nintendo to rebound as they have with the Switch after that disaster.
friskykillface
Banned
The end of the marvel vs capcom series D:
Looks pretty fun actually, watched angry Joe stream it and the story looked ok
I'll pick up a copy on black Friday but all these reports are not good
Looks pretty fun actually, watched angry Joe stream it and the story looked ok
I'll pick up a copy on black Friday but all these reports are not good
I can't say USFII is an appealing game either, but hey it sold decent.
Casual fans of old Street Fighter eat up the nostalgia in USF2. They don't care about the price, which is the only thing people complained about.
Tells you a lot about how ugly the game is when people confuse it for an uprezzed Wii game.
clay_ghost
Member
I have no idea how USFII sold so much either so maybe you have a point.
Its really subjective but i will try....
For me the artstyle of MVC look mismatch , Characters model does not look cohesive and have those "unreal engine" look to it , Characters also looked uglier than their other iteration.
TVC have a consistent great art by Shinkiro that translate perfectly into the game models. YMMV deepening on whether you like his art style or not though.
Even a Switch port couldn't save this game's sales, and you guys know it.
Because Sony probably paid for it, and porting PS3 to Vita was very easy, at least that's what Spny said back then.
Valkerionseven
Member
Hot take response: Not surprised since Switch owners buy everything to justify their new console. Even that overpriced rendition of SF2.
Reasonable response: This should have and could have been a bigger game release but either Capcom was gotten by the balls again by Marvel's release schudle or something.
Seriously hope they don't just drop this game and treat it similarly to KoF14 and even FFXV in some regards. Focus on cleaning up the game visually while supporting the base that stuck with you... Then again they have yet to fix a lot of the simple visual glitches in SFV so -shrug- I have a feeling this game is dead on arrival.
Reasonable response: This should have and could have been a bigger game release but either Capcom was gotten by the balls again by Marvel's release schudle or something.
Seriously hope they don't just drop this game and treat it similarly to KoF14 and even FFXV in some regards. Focus on cleaning up the game visually while supporting the base that stuck with you... Then again they have yet to fix a lot of the simple visual glitches in SFV so -shrug- I have a feeling this game is dead on arrival.
Shifty
Member
We just really like Street Fighter II mang
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
Exactly. But let people continue acting as if that never happened, that Switch was a guaranteed success and that there's a 3rd party conspiracy hell bent on not giving Switch owners the games they so rightfully deserve.
Gunstar Ikari
Unconfirmed Member
I'm going to be sad when Capcom finally gives up and 2D fighting regresses back to the mid-2000s. Hopefully SNK stays strong.
I haven't bought Infinite either. Every time I watch footage and get hyped, I remember how little fun I had with MvC3 and stop myself.
Riiight.
This is nonsense.
The backgrounds for Tatsunoko haven't aged well, but the characters have much more style and are much more readable
That only tells me people are insane.
Yes, amazing character models.
I mean, wtf? Alex in this game looks like complete garbage.
Gotdatmoney
Member
Nothing would have saved Infinite besides not being Infinite honestly. Right from the second they revealed it I knew it was over for them. Can't present a game that fucking ugly and hope the casual buying base will be down. The roster and other things hurt it too but, it's just ugly and there are a million other better looking products out there.
Gotcha. I still think it would be accurate to say that of the non-China big markets, the UK is Nintendo's weakest territory.
Skittzo0413
Member
The marketing for this game has been basically non-existent, while modern looking Switch games are getting all sorts of headlines (like DOOM, Skyrim) so yeah, I think it would have helped quite a bit by basically creating free marketing. Well I guess not free, since they'd have to spend money to port it. But you know what I mean.
Over the last gen and a half I've watched every single one of my favourite franchises be sent to die on arguably one of their better iterations (PGR4, MvC:I), or become constricted and misshapen to lose what made them special in the first place (Halo 4+).
And I wonder why I'm losing interest in gaming as a whole. It's such a great hobby because of all of the passion it engenders, but not without the occasional or eventual heartbreak when circumstances change. Not all good things last forever.
I still hope MvC rises back up to being the celebratory and bombastic franchise that everyone can see hidden in the gameplay. But at this point, how many strikes can Capcom get for different situations before we acknowledge that this problem is not going to go away anytime soon, even if they're getting better at it. The Capcom brand isn't tarnished and without going above and beyond the status quo, it will continue to decay. That's a difficult thing to grip with, and I feel like I should know better given what happened with PGR, but man, here's to waiting another 6-10 years I guess.
Haggar is awesome but yeah, the roster is 90% boring. Recycled from the previous games or characters the MCU have beaten to death already.
All the more reason to try out cheaper ports for the first half a year of the new machine's life, instead of risking higher investment. Capcom sort of did this with USF2 but missed the boat spectacularly with their other games. Even if Switch had been a WiiU level of sales failure those two game collections would have made enough to justify the porting cost.
clay_ghost
Member
That only tells me people are insane.
Yes, amazing character models.
I mean, wtf? Alex in this game looks like complete garbage.
The screens that you are posting is not helping MVC:I's case lol....
That only tells me people are insane.
Yes, amazing character models.
I mean, wtf? Alex in this game looks like complete garbage.
MvCI's character models are technically higher but the art style and inconsistency is atrocious. X and Rocket look like they were ripped from two completely different games.
Gotdatmoney
Member
You may be able to trash the backgrounds (which are a mixed bag for sure) but the games modeling is still good and the art gets a lot out of them especially for a system with literally 100x less power.
It's like, you gotta go to this extent to convince people infinite doesn't look like trash. The fact this is a discussion is reflective of how poor a job Capcom did.
It aint like people want the game to look ugly bruh.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
I mean Capcom was a big supporter of the 3DS which did well for so it wasn't that odd of an expectation.
USF2 only exists because SSF4 shipped a million on the 3DS. So this game's omission wasn't some sure thing when it's predecessor had a vita port.
Not saying I agree with the overall notion but it's strange to think Capcom of all publishers were way waaaaay too pesistic of the switch.
you're already giving Capcom way too much credit.
what they'll will do is actually NOT port MvC to switch, but instead port USF2 to ps4/xb1. lol.
that's how they'll solve this problem, lol.
in a ll honesty though, it's too soon to tell how this will do in the long run.
it could have long legs. let's wait and see.
papercan55
Member
Either capcom are making something new and exclusive for switch which will be revealed early next year or they are crazy.
Why are they passing up so much money? They have always supported nintendo handhelds and they have so many fans which own the console but they seem way behind this time.
And this is in the u.k, nintendo's worst market by far.
Why are they passing up so much money? They have always supported nintendo handhelds and they have so many fans which own the console but they seem way behind this time.
And this is in the u.k, nintendo's worst market by far.
mrmickfran
Member
Holy fuck
I've got 17 Switch games. I've never bought anywhere near that many games for a console only 6 months from launch. It simply has a lot of good games, and people are buying into the portable home console aspect.
By tanking the sales of two of their most popular franchises in the most recent iterations?
Unless they're trying to fail they don't know what they're doing.