Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, the upcoming tag-team fighting game from Marvel, Sony and Arc System Works, is drawing strong tournament sign-up numbers ahead of its release later this week. Early registration figures from major fighting game competitions suggest healthy interest from the genre's core community, though such data offers only a partial picture of the title's likely overall popularity.

At the American tournament CEO, 1,054 players registered for the Marvel Tokon bracket, close behind Street Fighter 6's 1,111 and ahead of Tekken 8's 783. The game also placed third for registrations at Evo France, a newer European major taking place in October. The article cautions that tournament entrants are a self-selecting group skewed towards genre enthusiasts and that new releases often see inflated sign-ups from casual players trying them out, though it notes this follows a well-received July open beta that was hampered by PC technical issues and a PSN outage.