Are you saying you have reason to believe the game sales are meeting Capcoms expectations?? Don't let tons of tournament streams with 1000 people gathering to play the game fool you. So far worldwide the game is somewhere between 400 and 700k sold afaik. Thats after 2-3 weeks. Considering up to half of a games sales usually happen in the first week the game will have trouble even selling 1mil within 5 weeks of release(Which is half of what Capcom expected).
Then Capcom is stupid.
Fighting games are not going to be like CoD. They cater to a semi-niche market, particularly competitive fighting games like Capcoms. Expecting 2 million in sales was foolish on their part. Especially when you ship you game in February, one of the slowest months for sales.
Also, there's a lot of room between 400k and 700k. If the sales estimates have that much margin for error, I would say that it's hard to reliably say anything about how much it sold.
I don't understand how this game is considered a "flop" when (according to vgchartz) it has outsold every other fighting game on the market except for SSF4 (by a small margin) and Tekken 6. And this is just the second week of sales.
I think most large film distributors are considering only the first one or two weeks, or some such when doing the financial calculations. Ie if the movie is doing well within one or two weeks then it is a win otherwise a loss. Would not surprise me if the same way is done on this game.
While I think that the above way to calculate profit might work for films (where commercials etc are applied for a week or so perhaps to boost sales). I am less sure about games, where (for me at least) word of mouth are my main reasons for buying games (hence a simple one or two way weeks rounds of commercials wont make me buy anything).
On March 08 2011 10:46 HansMoleman wrote: Surveys for possible DLC characters are out, and I personally am excited. I am a huge Megaman fan, and he is in the lead with 30 percent of votes. Venom is number one on the Marvel side, which also excites me, although i would like to see Carnage instead, who is #3. Here is the article - Enjoy http://shoryuken.com/content/unofficial-unity-poll-says-mega-man-x-venom-top-picks-mvc3-dlc-3826/
very cool. but with spiderman having venom suit as an alternate costume, you might think they won't add such a character. I loved venom in MvC2, he was my main character and actually dealt with sentinal pretty well due to his venom fang and air dash allowed for change ups. I would be fine with ANY spiderman character, it seems unfair that there are 5 x-men and 4 street fighters but only spiderman when he had such great villains.
I hope we see strider, he was sick good in MvC1 and unbeatable in MvC2 if played properly with the right assists. Either Strider, Hayato, Cap Commando or Jin would be my picks, Jin is has so much character and Cap Com has a cool design. Hayato is just a bad ass, he was one of my favs in MvC2. NO to frank west, we already have 3 zombie related characters from RE. Also here's to hoping they don't add clones and phoenix wright can SUCK IT!
But I hope we see more than just 4 DLC as it looks like there is only room for 4 DLC characters. Jill next to wesker, Shuma next to Dormammu then that leaves 2 left, near arthur and she-hulk. Doesn't look like Capcom had any plans beyond that just by looking at the character select screen.
Megaman? Seriously? Boring. How bout people not vote for that scrub. If they should bring back a character that appeared in the series before id rather have Strider who is much more dynamic.
Oh well it is just a poll, not going to happen anyways.
I'm gonna ignore a lot of the ignorant nonsense that normally would drive me mad here because something amazing has been discovered.
All of you who bitched, moaned, and complained about the storm sent DHC in marvel 2, get yourselves some fuckin tissues cause it's baaaaaack. I knew stayin loyal to my mvc2 team would pay off
More accurately, there are a lot of chars that can do a damage scaling reset and seemingly partial hitstun scaling reset. It's based off of: 1) Having gotten a physical, unblocked hit at some point in the round 2) using a super that causes a cinematic 3) DHCing to a "non physical" super, aka things like wolv/morrigan/arthur power up supers, dog's vale of mist, whiffed grab / counter supers, and somehow, someway, Hyper Sentinel Force
On March 08 2011 21:51 myrmidon2537 wrote: Isn't elemental rage seemingly... too expensive for that? (but other supers are fine) (Edit: I mean, 3 supers then DHC?)
but I don't care. *distributes tissues* :D
Despite this insanely common misconception, elemental rage is a lvl 1 super, hence the normal damage on it.
america's favorite DHC only has a makeover :p . i still think mag is the best amongst the returning characters though. he basically has the same mixups. flight S overhead is good, regular tri-angle jump LK has a height restriction but can still be effective, crossup lows are fast as fuqq, j dash C is quite an effective crossup and his throw is lol. he's got the best lvl 3 super imo and a very juicy disruptor buff, making keepaway magneto viable. who need's 5 fierces when u can pull off upwards of 6~9 even b4 relaunching (thanks wesker!)
I hate that the machinima realm guys think that justin wong is good enough to use a piece of shit team like capt america thor modok and that can even waste time competing against a darkphoenix/sentinel/x team. Just a waste of time
And now they're spamming every button. You sit in a room with some of the best players for 2 hours and you don't realize you hit buttons one at a time to do a combo, dear god.
On March 09 2011 11:18 ZlaSHeR wrote: I hate that the machinima realm guys think that justin wong is good enough to use a piece of shit team like capt america thor modok and that can even waste time competing against a darkphoenix/sentinel/x team. Just a waste of time
he went 6-10 using jill/rubyheart/ken vs gods sooooooooooooo (but this is mvc2 so yea yea yea)
ZlaSHeR United States. March 09 2011 11:35. Posts 4278 PM Profile Blog Report Quote # Yeah the difference was, didn't Justin get a long ass time to practice with said shitty characters, I mean they're tossing him 3 garbage characters and purposely picking the worst assists so taht theres no team synergy at all, against sentinel phoenix.
i actually think the mvc2 shit is worst than w/e the machina guys are having justin do. mvc2 sent takes/deals so much damage literally makes low tiers impossible to play and storm can just runaway all day. the gap between rubyheart/jill to storm/sent is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay bigger i woudl imagine than capA/modok/thor~x/sent/phoenix but w/e. i would've expected something like this from machinima
Yeah the difference was, didn't Justin get a long ass time to practice with said shitty characters, I mean they're tossing him 3 garbage characters and purposely picking the worst assists so taht theres no team synergy at all, against sentinel phoenix.
Sentinel is retarded in this game. I usually play with this combo: Iron man, Spider man/Hulk, Magneto. Pretty op comp as well, but Sentinel is just dumb imo.
lol machinina stream. srsly everybody watching knew dumb ish like this would happen. justin always having a good time randoms elect.
man i need some anti-taskmaster strats. just played vs him first time today and its like playing vs rufus/cammy vanilla for the first time. hes just jumping all on top of me :/
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