Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Could Have Sold Twice as Many Copies Without Its PC Problems, Analyst Says
According to the latest data, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls managed to sell a total of 485,000 copies across PS5 and Steam in the week after its launch.
However, Rhys Elliott, head of market analysis at Alinea, believes that the 4v4 team fighting game could have done much better if the Steam reviews had not been so harsh on the PC port.
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Could Have Reached 1 Million Sales With a Better PC Launch
Elliott points out that the figure of 485,000 copies sold should be considered a low estimate and explains that the launch of Marvel Tokon on Steam “was marred by performance issues, bugs, intrusive DRM, and no Linux support.”
“The Steam review score is pretty telling,” Elliott continues, “at under 50% positive as I write this. It’s just 19% positive among those who played under an hour, suggesting a wave of bounce-and-refund players.”
“Arc has been patching hard, and many issues are already fixed, but first impressions are sticky,” he concludes. “Tokon might have sold closer to 1M if the Steam stuff hadn’t been such an issue. Word of mouth was cut short.”
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls could therefore have sold almost twice as many copies if its launch on Steam had not suffered from these problems.
