It wasn’t too long ago that Arc System Works, PlayStation, and Marvel blew the doors off the fighting game community with the surprise reveal of MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls, a brand-new 4v4 fighter that brings back some of Marvel’s biggest names and lets them beat the absolute hell out of each other. Sure, it’s no Marvel Vs. Capcom 4, but it has the potential to be even better.
The game clearly wears its Capcom Versus series DNA on its sleeve, and while we still don’t know much about the full roster or mechanics, we do know one important thing now: the game will support cross-play between PlayStation 5 and PC (Steam and Epic Games Store).
This detail comes courtesy of a newly published Steam listing and finally answers one of the burning questions fans (myself included) have had since the reveal. It may seem like a small thing in 2025, but when it comes titles that involve the PlayStation, cross-play still isn’t always guaranteed, so this is absolutely good news.
Now, here’s hoping MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls ships with rollback netcode baked in at launch and doesn’t make us wait months for a patch like some recent fighters.
MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls was officially announced on June 4, 2025, and so far, we know the game will feature characters such as Iron Man, Captain America, Storm, Star-Lord, Doctor Doom, Ghost Rider, Ms. Marvel, and Spider-Man. You can expect more reveals in the coming months.
While I’m genuinely looking forward to this game, I have to admit—I’m disappointed with Sony/PlayStation for skipping Xbox. Yeah, I get it. Business is business. But let’s be real here: this is shaping up to be a major fighting game, and locking it to one platform just because the other is a “competitor” feels outdated.
Remember when Killer Instinct was Xbox-only and the backlash that followed? Or when Street Fighter V became a PlayStation and PC exclusive thanks to Capcom and Sony teaming up? The fighting game community was not happy, and here we are again, repeating history. PlayStation could allow this on Xbox. There’s nothing stopping them. But they won’t, and that’s frustrating—at least for me. This kind of gatekeeping only hurts the community.
MARVEL Tokon: Fighting Souls doesn’t have a release date as of yet, but is slated to be released sometime in 2026.
