Capcom: Marvel vs Capcom 2 on XBLA July 29, PSN date coming 'soon'

by David Hinkle { Jul 9th 2009 at 10:10AM }

The Capcom Unity twitter account revealed something interesting this morning: Marvel vs Capcom 2 will be gracing Xbox Live on July 29 -- and Capcom PR separately confirmed a 1200

($15) price. For those of you wondering about its arrival on PSN, Capcom promises an announcement "soon." Sharpen those claws (and those Hadoukens), because it's about to be on.

Gallery: Marvel vs Capcom 2

Tags: capcom, marvel-vs-capcom-2, psn, xnla

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

NaeemTHM @ Jul 9th 2009 10:13AM

Didn't PSN recently get a demo or something? Why the hell is their no release date?!

Delaystation indeed.

koehler83 @ Jul 9th 2009 10:15AM

It's Capcom. No matter what they say, or do, they just can't get a grip on the PS3. I expect the trend to continue steadfast until the next generation of hardware.

It's almost like they go out of their way to piss off PS fans, in every aspect of their business.

Storm Eagle::The Blood Edge @ Jul 9th 2009 10:25AM

If you wanna call whatever that was a demo.

Pfft.

Proton Cannon! to the face, Playstation! I planned on getting it on PSN, too. Damn.

NaeemTHM @ Jul 9th 2009 10:33AM

It's not just Capcom that does bullcrap like this. I feel like the gaming industry as a whole treats the PS3 like a redheaded step child.

Well I got news for you game devs, soon the PS3 is going to start working out! Then you have to deal with this:

http://images.smarter.com/blogs/carrottop.jpg

Storm Eagle::The Blood Edge @ Jul 9th 2009 10:39AM

Thank you Naeem, I just vomited.

NaeemTHM @ Jul 9th 2009 10:41AM

Missions Accomplished!

http://roadkillrefugee.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/mission-accomplished.png

8-bit.artist @ Jul 9th 2009 10:58AM

if anything is the red headed step child of the gaming world, its the wii. ps3 and 360 are like two brothers competing to see who is the best at something.

shadowhowl1900 @ Jul 9th 2009 11:17AM

lol, what demo?
that was the worse thing attempt as a demo since...ever

Saint @ Jul 9th 2009 11:30AM

First off, thanks for the Carrot Top picture, now I'm sterile. Probably for the best.

Second off, the PSN Demo actually sold the game to me. Having never had the chance to experience the (glory) of the original game, I fell in love right away.

Third, does anyone know if the game is still planning on coming with all of the characters unlocked? It's not a huge deal, but it's enough to make me not want to buy the game. My favorite part of fighting games is unlocking new characters. Always a sense of victory when that happens. Probably the same reason I'm an achievement/trophy hooah.

CTC XBL-supapaypamawio PSN-ctclaw @ Jul 9th 2009 11:31AM

The PS3 is the red headed step child. I can't imagine why Capcom would do this unless it was for some money.

cuteSAVAGE @ Jul 9th 2009 11:34AM

I thought the demo was perfect considering the majority of people interested in this game played it at least once within the last ten years and that no one in their right mind should buy a fighting game without at least a second controller and a few mates to play with.

DangerMouse @ Jul 9th 2009 11:44AM

It will come with the characters unlocked. I was hoping to unlock them myself as well.

I'm sure it will hit the PS3 the next day (in the US, i'm sure EU will get it a few months down the line ;)). And as far as PSN goes, there PS Store looks like one giant clusterfuck. There's been cases where they've had problems on the release day (for whatever reason) and won't fix it until the one week later on the next thursday. Why? It doesn't make any sense for them to releases vital updates when they get them. And if it looks like shite from where I'm sitting, i wonder what kind of headaches the game companies have to deal with.

Vidikron @ Jul 9th 2009 11:51AM

@DangerMouse

Huh? What specifically are you referring to? I've not seen anything remotely like a clusterfuck in the PSN store.

Shimrra @ Jul 9th 2009 10:14AM

I wish they release Street Fighter 3rd Strike I personally felt that was the best 2-D fighting game ever from Capcom.

6_h!t-combo @ Jul 9th 2009 12:52PM

I agree with you over 9000 percent....
3rd strike was so epic.
Online multiplayer, and id be sold.

Shimrra @ Jul 9th 2009 12:57PM

DUDE!!!!! Street Fighter 3rd Strike with online play......anyone have a towel????

alex @ Jul 9th 2009 2:18PM

thank you!! SFIII is my favorite of all of them!! love it when i parry each hit of a super and counter with mine.

won a tournament as hugo against chun-li. parried her ex flip kick and countered with my super. pure awesomeness.

XBLA: Arex Ree. friend request to fight me.

phrost @ Jul 9th 2009 3:27PM

They already have 3rd strike on Xbox Live. It's even backwards compatible.

Snakku @ Jul 9th 2009 3:30PM

word. MV2 = unbalanced failure

Temidien @ Jul 9th 2009 10:14AM

"soon" needs to be "now".

JudasPrius @ Jul 9th 2009 10:15AM

If by soon they mean today's update then count me in!

InFaMoUs1- @ Jul 9th 2009 10:19AM

What a load of bullshit

drakkor @ Jul 9th 2009 10:21AM

if only the game didnt look so bad on an hd screen

rogXue @ Jul 9th 2009 10:21AM

Knowing Capcom, soon could mean today. They are goofy like that and tend to give the PSN some love. just look @ the playstation blog to see that

RagingStormX @ Jul 9th 2009 10:32AM

Hmmmm...the fact that what you say may just be true, I will hold my tongue on my venting comments about Crapcom for now. *crosses fingers*

AoE @ Jul 9th 2009 3:53PM

@RagingStormX,

Crapcom! I see what you did there! Man, that is priceless... a real knee-slapper. Have you thought about a career as a comedy writer? If not, you really should... I mean with gems like crapcom You'll make a mint!

Maybe I could be your writing partner... what if we call them crapcorn next? You know... because it SOUNDS like capcom, but suggests instead of just poo... poo with corn! Hilarious, right? I am telling you RagingStormX, you and I, we're gonna take this town and they won't know what hit them... in the funny bone!

ImpurePhoen1x @ Jul 9th 2009 10:26AM

PSN date coming "soon" huh? At least I've got BlazBlue to keep me occupied until MvC2 is out, whenever that is

Storm Eagle::The Blood Edge @ Jul 9th 2009 10:40AM

Gauntlet Hades!

I love BlazBlue, in case you couldn't tell.

razer922 @ Jul 9th 2009 10:25AM

And then the PS3 players who had a "demo" before everyone else said:
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

Seriously, this is my most awaited game of the summer (most of what I want is coming out in the fall) and it gets delayed. God damnit.

My fightstick will collect dust another day.

samfish (uses the Joystiq Comment-Kill filter!) @ Jul 9th 2009 10:39AM

Its not delayed, they just haven't announced a release date yet.

There is probably about a 90% chance that it's coming out the same week as the XBLA version.

Prox @ Jul 9th 2009 10:27AM

$15 is pretty steep.

JudasPrius @ Jul 9th 2009 10:28AM

Tell that to ebay!

NaeemTHM @ Jul 9th 2009 10:39AM

It's a lot better than the 90 bucks the game is currently going for.

Storm Eagle::The Blood Edge @ Jul 9th 2009 10:59AM

Selfbooting Dreamcast ISO FTW!!

Jason Statham (Aka Vegeta) @ Jul 9th 2009 12:17PM

Are you seriously complaining? As other said before, the game went for either $50-$100 used at gamestop or about $100 on ebay, and you honestly think $15 is steep?

If that ain't being a cheap bastard, then I don't know what is.

Vidikron @ Jul 9th 2009 12:23PM

That may be true, but I'm not sure comparing a limited physical resource to an infinite digital resource is entirely fair.

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ Jul 9th 2009 10:28AM

oh now thats some shit.....they do a good thing by FINALLY saying they are getting thins right for Bionic Commando: Rearmed, and Give us an "Exclusive" Demo for MvC2 but NOW they dont have a Date for its release!?!?!? Capcom REALLY likes to toy with PS3 owners it seems....I suggest they give it the same date as the XBLA release...........