Why The Studio Dropped Mortal Kombat 1 Assist

If I requested you what the best-selling combating sport of this technology is, likelihood is your thoughts will mechanically go to Tekken 8, Avenue Fighter 6, or perhaps one of many new Dragon Ball combating video games launched.

In that case, you could be shocked that none of these video games have that crown, and it is not even from a Japanese-based studio.

Which sport is it? It is none aside from Mortal Kombat 1, the reboot of NetherRealm’s long-standing combating sport franchise.

Finest-Promoting Preventing Recreation This Gen, However Not Sufficient For New Content material

Over on X (previously Twitter), NetherRealm and Mortal Kombat franchise co-creator Ed Boon shared that Mortal Kombat 1 has reached over 6.2 million items bought. This places it forward of Avenue Fighter 6, which was at 5 million items bought a number of months in the past, and Tekken 8, which is simply at three million items bought based mostly on Bandai Namco’s announcement greater than 4 months in the past.

This implies Mortal Kombat 1, for all intents and functions, is the best-selling combating sport this gen up to now.

Even when the sport managed to promote that a lot, it apparently wasn’t sufficient to warrant NetherRealm persevering with to develop post-release content material for it. In Could of this yr, the studio introduced that DLC help would stop, as NetherRealm is reportedly shifting to a different unannounced mission.

Curiously sufficient, even when content material help has ended, Boon has mentioned that they’re “nonetheless dedicated to refining MK1 to be our most balanced sport,” which is commendable, I assume.

It is each attention-grabbing and unhappy to see that, regardless of a sport’s success, it is nonetheless not sufficient to increase its shelf life. What wouldn’t it take for NetherRealm to present it one other spherical of content material? We do not know, however apparently, six million items bought is not sufficient.

Launched in September 2023, Mortal Kombat 1 acquired a slew of post-release characters, with the final one being the T-1000 from the Terminator franchise as a part of the Khaos Reigns DLC pack.

Should you’re serious about getting the sport with all of the DLCs included, Warner Bros. launched the Mortal Kombat 1 Definitive Version a number of months in the past, and you do not even want to fret about FOMO since there is not any extra content material deliberate for it.

Our evaluate of Mortal Kombat 1 was fairly optimistic, stating, “Regardless of how brief the story is, it’s a nice story nonetheless, and past that’s a lot of single-player content material that can maintain you coming again day after day. And naturally, the ending strikes are bloodier and grittier than ever earlier than.”

In different combating sport information, Arc System Works, the studio engaged on PlayStation-published Marvel Tokon: Preventing Souls, says they need to help it for so long as a decade.