On June 18, Capcom revealed that it’s porting the beloved arcade fighter Marvel Vs. Capcom 2—in addition to six different Marvel arcade video games—to fashionable consoles. However, the brand new assortment gained’t be launched on Xbox consoles, persevering with a development that has some Xbox followers nervous.
During today’s massive Nintendo Direct, Capcom introduced Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, a brand new retro bundle of fashionable combating and brawling video games. As talked about earlier, MvCFC:AC contains Marvel Vs Capcom 2, a real fan-favorite pixel artwork combating recreation from 2000 that hasn’t obtained a correct console port in over a decade. So lots of people are extraordinarily excited to play MVC2 and the opposite video games on this new bundle. Nevertheless, Xbox gamers must watch from the sidelines.
As confirmed by Capcom, the MVC Combating Assortment will solely be out there on PlayStation 4, Change, and PC. This has been famous by Xbox followers on-line, who aren’t blissful concerning the resolution.
“THIS IS WHY YOUR FANS ARE PISSED! BECAUSE WHEN XBOX MOVE GAMES TO OTHER PLATFORMS, WE STILL DON’T GET GAMES COMING TO XBOX IN 2024,” tweeted one completely not indignant participant in response to Capcom’s tweet confirming the dearth of an Xbox port.
Kotaku has reached out to Capcom and Xbox.
MVC Combating Assortment is much from the primary recreation to skip Xbox within the final two years. Megaman Battle Community Legacy Assortment, Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster, The Nice Ace Lawyer Chronicles, Monster Hunter Stories, and Gundam Breaker 4 have additionally skipped Microsoft’s console.
Restricted Run Video games, well-known for remasters and bodily ports of older titles, has additionally often skipped Xbox. In early 2024 two video games—Felix the Cat and Rocket Knight Adventures Re-Sparked—solely arrived on PlayStation and Change. Limited Run’s CEO explained on Twitter that this resolution was made as a result of Xbox players simply don’t purchase many bodily video games. There was additionally the bizarre state of affairs of Resident Evil 4’s fancy 2023 remake, which skipped Xbox One, however nonetheless arrived on PS4. The horror remake did arrive on Sequence X, nonetheless, so it didn’t totally skip Microsoft’s house console.
Nonetheless, it’s turning into increasingly more frequent for third-party video games to skip Xbox. This traces up with a previous report that recommended some publishers aren’t certain if it’s nonetheless price it to launch video games on Microsoft’s house console anymore because of low gross sales and Game Pass competition.
After all, it must be famous that large video games like Grand Theft Auto V, Battlefield 2042, Suicide Squad, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, and extra nonetheless launch on Xbox alongside different platforms, so it’s not just like the console goes to abruptly cease getting new third-party releases. But when this development continues, it could make it harder for Xbox to sell consoles as gamers fear if their favourite franchises might be out there on Microsoft’s system sooner or later.
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