If I requested you what the best-selling combating recreation 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 could be stunned that none of these video games have that crown, and it isn’t even from a Japanese-based studio.
Which recreation is it? It is none apart from Mortal Kombat 1, the reboot of NetherRealm’s long-standing combating recreation franchise.
Finest-Promoting Combating 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 models offered. This places it forward of Avenue Fighter 6, which was at 5 million models offered a couple of months in the past, and Tekken 8, which is simply at three million models offered primarily based 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 recreation 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 undertaking.
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 recreation,” which is commendable, I suppose.
It is each attention-grabbing and unhappy to see that, regardless of a recreation’s success, it is nonetheless not sufficient to increase its shelf life. What wouldn’t it take for NetherRealm to offer it one other spherical of content material? We do not know, however apparently, six million models offered is not sufficient.
Launched in September 2023, Mortal Kombat 1 obtained 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.
When you’re excited 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 isn’t any extra content material deliberate for it.
Our evaluation of Mortal Kombat 1 was fairly constructive, stating, “Regardless of how quick the story is, it’s a nice story nonetheless, and past that’s a number of single-player content material that may maintain you coming again day after day. And naturally, the ending strikes are bloodier and grittier than ever earlier than.”
In different combating recreation information, Arc System Works, the studio engaged on PlayStation-published Marvel Tokon: Combating Souls, says they wish to assist it for so long as a decade.
Mortal Kombat 1
- Launched
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September 19, 2023
- ESRB
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M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sturdy Language
- Writer(s)
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Warner Brothers Video games
- Engine
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Unreal Engine 4
