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The fighting game “MARVEL Tōkon,” published by a Sony subsidiary, has seen its concurrent player count crash to around 100, sparking discussion on the Japanese hardware/gaming-industry forum board. Developed by Arc System Works, the game reportedly had about 25,000 concurrent players right after launch, meaning the vast majority of its playerbase has dropped off in under two months. Posters were split on the cause: some blamed the mandatory PSN account linking, while others argued the game’s content itself simply didn’t land. With a season pass featuring additional characters planned through December 2027, some worried whether the service can keep running that long, or whether it will meet the same fate as “Concord,” which was pulled from sale and refunded shortly after launch.
What people said
Probably a 10-minute wait
The people still left are just doing friend matches at this point, random matchmaking's been a ghost town for a while
100 must be brutal 😭
It was already unplayable at 500 and now it's down to a fifth of that……
I mean, it's not like PS5 is buzzing either, so that's probably not it
Seriously, this
Half — no, 80% Sony's fault
If that were really the reason, the PS5 version would've sold fine
But it's not selling on PS5 either, so it has to be a problem with the game itself
That means they've tanked two Marvel titles in a row
That's honestly impressive
No other game has dropped this hard from 25k concurrent in just 2 months
It's not that nobody's playing it — plenty of people DID play it properly, and then just disappeared 🥺
That makes it even more hopeless lol
They were funny at first, but they gradually got annoying, and after 2-3 of them you're sick of it.
Still, it seemed like it was getting some buzz — guess it's dropped off this much now.
Well, it's almost been 2 months, so maybe this is just how it goes
Reviews were saying the same thing — fine the first time, but watch it enough times and it's just irritating
"Ark" (a mocking nickname implying the studio is 'washed up') doesn't care about other companies' IPs, so they half-assed the balancing and now it's dead
I mean, this is a game Marvel fans buy, not Arc fans (´・ω・｀)
lol
Fair point honestly
Weird that even Arc's own fans aren't buying it
The Four Horsemen of Shovelware, maybe?
Hunter was made by some minor studio
It's a title aimed at a Japanese audience
Marvel got released pretty much worldwide
and they poured a ton of money into it too
If it gets that far, it really does feel like they should just pull the plug
Honestly feels like they should stop even now
It's either keep it running or fully refund everyone like Concord
They're still selling DLC promising 4 more characters by December 31, 2027
There's no real reason to shut down the service
This game pays Marvel a massive licensing fee every single month 🤣🤣🤣
Wouldn't they still owe that even after shutting the service down?
Concord's grand finale, the sequel
Which is the lesser evil — keep running it, or refund everyone?
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
MARVEL Tōkon is a PS5 fighting game published by a Sony subsidiary studio and developed by Arc System Works, a developer with a strong track record in the fighting genre. It reportedly had around 25,000 concurrent players right after launch, but by the time of this thread, that number had crashed to the low hundreds in under two months. This drop was the main point of debate among posters, with some pointing to the mandatory PSN account linking, and others arguing that since even the PS5 version’s sales were weak, the problem must lie with the game itself. Another Sony-published Marvel title, “Wolverine,” has also reportedly struggled, and several posts noted that this marks two Marvel titles in a row running into trouble. With a season pass featuring additional characters planned through December 2027, attention is now on whether the service can keep running that long, or whether it will meet an ending similar to “Concord,” which was pulled from sale and refunded shortly after launch.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry board) thread “[Sad News] Sony’s MARVEL Tōkon down to 100 concurrent players! Is a shutdown near???“.
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