There's Still Hope For a New Darkstalkers

[Ruler]

spemanig said:

Ruler said:

MvsC was considered a save move because of its American Mass Market appeal with Marvel IP but look what happened with it now. It bombed, it probably is outsold by TekkenxStreetfighter by now. It cost them 100s of Millions to devolope and marketing this game and they cant even sell it now dueto Disneys expensive lincences, same with Marvel vs Capcom 2 which was avaible as HD remaster.

If they would have chosen Darkstalkers 4 it wouldnt have sold alot @day 1 but over time with Digital Sales and Retail restocks as well as DLC and ports to PC, PS4 and X1 it would have sold just as much if not even more than Marvel over time.

Its exactley these ''Save Bets'' mentallity that drove capcom down where there are now because these Western markets are nothing but save for a japanese company, look at the SFV hate-tirade. Or crying and bitching about Resident Evil if its supposed to be scarry or not.

According to VGC, vanilla MvC3 on the 360, aka the worse selling vanilla version of that game, sold over 50% more by itself than literally every Darkstalkers game to have ever come out, including rereleases, put together. Ultimate MvC on the Vita sold almost half of the entire Darkstalkers franchise put together. Let's not talk about games bombing. Darkstalkers 4 wouldn't have come even remotely close to passing MvC3.

I'm not arguing what is or is not good for gamers. I'm arguing what's realistic to expect of Capcom. Darkstalkers is a financial failure of a franchise. Capcom isn't going to waste money on a sequel when they couldn't even get SFV to be a success. Not for a very long time.

Yeah and how much did the disney licenses cost them? This game single handetley made capcom almost bankrupt. If not for the next day but then soon enough, you could pretty much see the news after this game came out how capcom had omly 256 million or something left in the bank.

 

The Darkstalkers games also made more money with arcade sales than everything of MvC3, probably DS1 alone even