Why The Studio Dropped Mortal Kombat 1 Assist

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

If that’s the case, you is likely to 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.

Greatest-Promoting Combating Sport 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 offered. This places it forward of Avenue Fighter 6, which was at 5 million items offered a couple of months in the past, and Tekken 8, which is simply at three million items offered 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 to this point.

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 Might of this yr, the studio introduced that DLC assist would stop, as NetherRealm is reportedly shifting to a different unannounced venture.

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

It is each fascinating and unhappy to see that, regardless of a sport’s success, it is nonetheless not sufficient to increase its shelf life. What would it not take for NetherRealm to provide it one other spherical of content material? We do not know, however apparently, six million items offered 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 couple of months in the past, and you do not even want to fret about FOMO since there is no extra content material deliberate for it.

Our evaluate of Mortal Kombat 1 was fairly constructive, 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 may hold 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: Combating Souls, says they need to assist it for so long as a decade.