forgotten franchise revival

[felineki]

Everyone knows Street Fighter and Marvel. Not may know Darkstalkers. JoJo is weird enough to have a crazy following. I love DarkStalkers, hell like my love for the franchise is insane. But it's just not well known enough to claim it's own space in the world now, times have sadly changed.

If everyone knows Marvel, then the MvC1 rerelease should have sold well. But it didn't. So the excuse of "a rerelease of an old game didn't sell well, therefore a new one wouldn't sell either" doesn't hold up. Tatsunoko VS Capcom managed to sell well enough despite everything it had going against it, like being on the Wii, half of the roster being virtually unknown to anyone outside Japan, and even a big fraction of the Capcom side of the roster being very obscure picks. So I think the idea that if Capcom were to make a new fighter that wasn't Street Fighter or Marvel it somehow wouldn't sell is not that sound.