How much revenue did ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3 make?

$1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3 sell?

Q: How many copies did ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3 sell?

272k to 442k copies, based on its 8k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 272k–442k; $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.7M before Steam's cut; from 8k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3 and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 74k–119k

best case 4.4M (Mortal Kombat 11)

Games like ULTIMATE MARVEL VS. CAPCOM 3

A typical game among these

≈ 74k–119k copies

≈ $1.0M–$2.0M after Steam's cut

from ~3k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: Mortal Kombat 11 at ≈ 3.4M–5.5M copies, ≈ $46.1M–$124.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Fighting (7 of 8) and 2D Fighter (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Fighting, priced around $50. The breakout hits carry Local Multiplayer + Controller; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2013 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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