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Rumour: X-Men and Fantastic Four Coming to Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite as DLC Characters

The upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite will feature characters from the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises as DLC, according to an industry insider.

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PhoenixUp2737d ago

These characters are very popular especially in the tournament scene. It'd be really absurd to cut them, especially when Marvel features a lot of them in their mobile games

Majin-vegeta2737d ago

Maybe this is the only way they were allowed to be in.Sucks but we have no control over it.Blame Fox

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jaymacx2736d ago (Edited 2736d ago )

This has nothing to do with movie rights..in the sense that its fox's fault.. marvel can use any of its ip outside of the contract terms. Its about marvel choosing to not use characters that are in movies from other studios. So those characters lose their popularity. Then build up lesser known characters that aren't under contract.. bottom line is Marvel wants fox to get rid of their rights.

Gaming4Life19812736d ago

Its not fox its disney not wanting to give fox the money, disney tried to low ball fox like fox is not making millions off the xmen and fantastic four and fox said no. So in retaliation disney and marvel said screw using the characters or making toys or in comics to make them less popular hoping that fox will not care and give them back which is not working and only upsetting fans.

PhoenixUp2736d ago

@ Majin

Fox has nothing to do with this. We already had X-Men & Fantastic Four characters in MvC3, thus showing proof Fox has no jurisdiction on these properties outside of movies

CorndogBurglar2737d ago

Fox owns the MOVIE rights to these characters. That is all. Marvel owns the rights to use the characters in anything else they want. At the end of the day, Marvel still owns the characters.

If they choose not put them in the game it would be because they want to lower popularity of the characters so that Fox's films start to make less money, which would in turn make them stop making more X-Men or Fantastic Four movies. Then the movoe rights would revert back to Marvel after 7 years of Fox not having a movie in production for those characters.

Its how Marvel was able to get the movie rights back for Daredevil, Punisher, Ghost Rider, and Blade.

Marvel has been shafting the Fantastic Four and X-Men for the last couple years with these characters only appearing in mobile games that were released before they started this strategy.

The Fantastic Four don't even have a comic anymore. X-Men have been getting treated so poorly its ridiculous. The current roster in the comics is a sham of what people consider to be the X-Men. They killed off Wolverine and Cyclops, and the Inhumans have basically become the X-Men's replacements. All because Marvel wants them in their movies but can't get them back currently.

Its sad that they are willing to hurt fans like this because of a mistake they made by selling the movie rights back in the late 90's.

I can't decide if selling these fan favorite characters is better than not including them or not. Seems a bit dickish considering they KNOW people want some X-Men characters.

Hell, Cyclops alone is one of the most demanded characters to return since MvC2.

Majin-vegeta2737d ago

Wow if true that some bull shizznit 😑

jaymacx2736d ago

Marvel before it started making its own movies contracted out franchises to help the marvel brand get out of debt. But now that Disney owns them they want to get rid of those contracts. Personally I think fox has not made best use of what they have.

CorndogBurglar2736d ago (Edited 2736d ago )

Well its true. Just google it. Marvel will never admit it, but its pretty clear thats whats going on.

They killed Cyclops, the heart and soul of the X-Men, and replaced the whole team with characters people don't really care about. Its pretty ridiculous.

X-Men have been absent from damn near everything, only appearing in that mobile fighting game.

XXanderXX2736d ago (Edited 2736d ago )

I don't feel hurt by what Marvel/Disney is doing especially if it means all license under the house Mickey built am fine with what needs doing . Also the selling was to raise money so to not go bankrupt and seeing how that in the past and they have a parent company with security it time to bring the kids home .

@CorndogBurglar Think that's a chance Marvel is willing to take yet a sucky one for those who know the truth , but I think they have a plan on how to bring the fans back once they obtain control .

CorndogBurglar2736d ago

Unfortunately, too many people enjoy these crappy X-Men movies. As long as they keep making money Fox will keep pumping out movies and Marvel won't be able to get them back.

Look at it like this. The only people that know how truly horrible the X-Men movies are are people who read comics. The general movie going audience doesn't know what they should really be like. So screwing the real comic fans out of their characters isn't really helping because the general audience gives them enough money on their own to keep these movies coming. This strategy doesn't work because the general audience doesn't have any idea.

Relientk772736d ago

Is there gonna be a complete edition of the game in the future because I want X-Men

DemonChicken2736d ago

Game is not out yet, i.e. still in development, and they are already thinking about DLC "milking"

Capcom FML

Gaming4Life19812736d ago

This is not right if true but knowing capcom it most likely is. I used to be a die hard capcom fan but i really think im not going to support their bulshit ways anymore. I was so pressed to play sf5 and they are milking us with that and its going to continue with all their games.

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9 Fighting Games That Deserve New Entries

These fighting game series have been sitting out for too long. It's time for them to get a sequel.

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darthv72596d ago

to be fair, there were three capcom vs snk titles. 1, Pro & 2 but only one SvC Chaos. If there is a capcom/SNK crossover that needs a new entry it is that one.

Majin-vegeta596d ago

No eternal champions?Automatic L list

Yi-Long744d ago

The article states Tekken 7 might be the best fighter currently available on Xbox, but leaves out important information that it never takes advantage of the Xbox hardware. It never got any kind of patch/boost/upgrade for the more powerful Xbox consoles, meaning it still runs at 720p I believe, resulting in a very blurry look.

Truly wish more devs would respect their products and customers enough to address issues such as these.

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Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite Deserved Better

What could've been an unbeatable addition to the Versus franchise ends up being a footnote in why publishers shouldn't leave a project hanging with a meager budget.

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MIDGETonSTILTS17880d ago

It had two-person teams instead of the fan-favored 3, and they charged for Venom as DLC instead of including him in the base game, even though Venom was the most-missed omission from MvC3.

Marvel vs Capcom deserved better than Infinite.

MvC3’s mechanics were too shallow, but at least they tried with the roster (THE most attractive part of the franchise).

If they were smart, they’d go back and do a semi-reboot of MvC2 with a hand-drawn style, and just include Marvel characters.

Avengers vs X-men would be infinitely cooler than anything watered down with old Capcom characters. I don’t need Ryu to fight Iron Man…. We wanna have Hulk fight Iron Man more.

Shiro173880d ago

I enjoyed 2v2 way better then 3 on a team. Also, the mechanics on mvci where easy better.

MIDGETonSTILTS17880d ago

They couldn’t be easier than MVC3 and be better.

sourOG880d ago (Edited 880d ago )

I thought the series went into hibernation. The property rights debacle was an understandable reason. It is a pain in the ass. Old games getting their soundtracks removed, games getting taken off of the store, etc. When they announced infinite I went berserk because I understood the trouble they went through to make that happen. They got hype to 100 and then took a giant dump on it. We didn’t deserve that, mvc didn’t deserve that.

I want a capcom versus game. They have enough characters to do it and the budget and properties aren’t an issue

VersusDMC880d ago

I more want a Bandai Namco or Square vs Capcom. Or a Project X Zone situation where it's characters from several different publishers.

sourOG880d ago

I don’t really play snk games like that so that doesn’t hype me. I haven’t played the other vs games. I want a straight up 3v3 capcom characters fighter. No guests, no contracts for right holder liberties and chains to someone else’s characters.

That development freedom could be boring for some with just capcom characters but I don’t think it would. I think it would be capcom unleashed and I also believe they have a solid roster with their own properties. In a time when everyone is making their own “rumble verse” with their properties I think it’s time for classic capcom to show them how it’s done.

Terry_B880d ago

Yeah..both Capcom and Disney ruined the series with this one.

Gaming4Life1981880d ago

I like infinite but the roster is terrible. Capcom needs to remake mvsc2 asap

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