Although earlier whispers recommended that the poor efficiency of the sport’s to this point launched DLC had led developer NetherRealm Studios to desert their plans for future updates, studio head Ed Boon could have not too long ago hinted that extra content material is presently in improvement for Mortal Kombat 1.
Boon provided this seeming trace on January twenty first whereas offering followers with a quick standing replace as to the present state of the sport.
Following a highlighting of MK1‘s newly launched Conan the Barbarian DLC, a brand new episode of the corporate’s official Kombat Kast livestream, and the sport’s continued standing because the fifteenth most performed PlayStation 5 recreation, the collection co-creator beamed, “With Conan stepping into participant’s palms, we’re excited to maintain trucking ahead with future DLC!”
Admittedly, Boon’s assertion is obscure at finest, and as such followers are divided as to what his point out of “future DLC” truly means.
On one aspect, some speculate that it’s affirmation that regardless of the earlier rumors of its demise, MK1 nonetheless has an extended highway forward of it.
In the meantime, others consider he was merely referring to the sport’s final DLC character, the yet-to-receive-a-release-date T-1000 of Terminator 2 fame, and purposely used ambiguous language in order to not present NetherRealm’s hand relating to their improvement schedules.
In the end, as of writing, a definitive clarification to Boon’s attainable teaser has but to be provided by anybody associated to MK1’s dev crew.
Nevertheless, wanting on the numbers, one might argue that it’s in NetherRealm’s finest curiosity to only transfer on to their subsequent venture anyway.
Regardless of MK1′s preliminary announcement on the 2022 Summer season Video games Fest being met with widespread pleasure, that sentiment rapidly waned because of the following reveals that its narrative, artwork type, and mechanics have been much less an improve from Mortal Kombat 11 and extra of a sidegrade.
In consequence, the sport has considerably underperformed in comparison with its predecessors.
Per one other tweet in Boon’s thread, since its launch in September 2023, MK1 has offered roughly 5 million copies thus far. By comparability, MK11 offered 8 million copies in solely two years – in different phrases, MK1 has to promote about 3 million copies in about 8 months if it needs to maintain up with its predecessor, not to mention surpass it.
And in an extra indication of its unpopularity, as of this text’s writing, MK1 has solely 30% extra presently lively gamers than MK11, albeit with its all-time peak sitting at 800 gamers much less.
Additional, it additionally has seen considerably much less gamers than both of Namco’s Tekken 8 or Capcom’s Avenue Fighter 6.
Apart from its basic high quality points, the dearth of enthusiasm in the direction of the collection’ newest entry additionally probably has one thing to do with many gamers being totally conscious that in the event that they purchased recreation, they might not but have a whole roster of fighters.
In actual fact, the general roster for MK1 shouldn’t be solely two fighters smaller than that of its predecessor – 35 vs 37, DLC characters included – nevertheless it’s additionally tied with MK vs. DC Universe in having the second-smallest base roster of any Mortal Kombat, their numbers solely undercut by the 17 whole playable kombatants in 1997’s Mortal Kombat 4.
And on condition that it’s frequent follow for NetherRealm studios to finally put out ‘full’ editions of their, it’s probably that MK1 received’t see any vital uptick in gamers till such occasions because it receives certainly one of its personal.
As famous above, at present, NetherRealm studios has but to substantiate an official launch date for MK1‘s closing DLC character, the T-1000.
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