I tried 'Mortal Kombat 1' on Switch to see if it's THAT bad...

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Mortal Kombat 1 is a fighting game developed by NetherRealm Studios and published by Warner Bros. Games. It is the twelfth main installment in the Mortal Kombat series, serving as both a sequel to Mortal Kombat 11 (2019) and the series' second reboot, following Mortal Kombat (2011).[3] The game was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on September 19, 2023, with the premium edition having released on September 14.
Mortal Kombat 1 has been confirmed to feature a story mode, online multiplayer with rollback netcode, and offline gameplay. The game introduces a feature called Kameo Fighters, which will provide assistance to the player during fights in a similar fashion to the tag assist fighters of the Towers of Time mode in Mortal Kombat 11. These characters will be separate from the main roster, and chosen before each fight. They can be called into the fight and perform a special attack or combo on the opponent, in addition to performing their own Fatalities and Brutalities.
Fatal Blows, first introduced in Mortal Kombat 11, return with different functionality. These special moves can still be triggered when a player's health drops below 30% only, however in this game they are performed as collaborative offensive moves between a player and a kameo fighter, with each delivering an attack in tandem. Additionally, the most significant attack performed during the Fatal Blow features the X-ray effects last seen in Mortal Kombat X. Also returning is the Air Kombat combo system which was featured in both Mortal Kombat: Armageddon and the action spin-off Shaolin Monks, and is being refined for this game.
For single-player, the game features the return of the plot-driven Story mode and the traditional form of Towers mode from the previous games, while introduces the addition of the seasonal Invasion mode, an online mode combining fighting mechanics with board game and role-playing game elements. The players are tasked to move around the board while completing various challenges on each space they move to, earning rewards such as skins, in-game currency, or concept art for completing the challenges. Each Invasion season lasts around six weeks and has its own board and theme. For multiplayer, the versus modes include Local mode to play a match on the same console, Online mode to play against opponents all over the world, and Tournament mode to host a tournament with a unified rule set for the matches.
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[@LukeStephensTV]

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[@KiomonDuck]

I don't even care about Mortal Kombat. I'm just here for you Luke.

[@Drothen-]

i dont even care for luke, im here for you @@KiomonDuck

[@KiomonDuck]

@@Drothen- damn I'm flattered.

[@chrisburrows9021]

Honestly Luke I don't know how this has happened when they were adamant that MK1 was going to be too powerful for PS4 and Xbox One. They would have handled it better than the Switch. How could they expect current gen to Switch to work. I was barely passable with the last gen

[@donjuanismo]

So you have a boyfriend?

[@daylen577]

You can't skip the movies on Switch because they hide load screens, that's why the video itself is so laggy. Once it loads you can skip.

[@gamersplaygroundliquidm3th526]

U can skip movie when all assets from that movie clip has loaded it won't show skip movie on any system till the assets have been loaded, as u see in this video he could once the assets had been loaded

[@MrLachapell]

Why is it that people need to keep correcting Luke on EVERYTHING

[@urgrannysbf]

​@@gamersplaygroundliquidm3th526Yeah he just said that, ding dong

[@Noblesix84]

Was gonna say this. If it were possible to skip them right away, all the loading might cause the Switch to actually ignite

[@gamersplaygroundliquidm3th526]

@@Noblesix84 yeah it really turned out to be a safety feature on the switch , keeps them from overheating to the point the chips turn back to Sand....lol

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

Remember when Nintendo's *Seal of Quality* actually meant something?

[@supernebula101]

The only thing the seal ever meant was that Nintendo officially licensed it. It was never an indicator of "quality" beyond... not bricking your console, I guess

[@jxwong_3982]

Interestingly (and perhaps tellingly) enough, they dropped the “of quality” bit in the US about 20 years ago, along with the part of the tagline about games being carefully reviewed by Nintendo according to strict quality standards. It’s just the Official Nintendo Seal now. Even back when it was the Seal of Quality, it was still stamped on a bunch of true stinkers. All the Official Seal requires is for the game to be playable from start to end without destroying your console, which even this travesty definitely does…not very well, but it does.

[@JustFun-ho6qy]

There's literally hundreds of 8/16 bit LJN dumpster fire games on Nintendo systems bearing said seal of quality. It never meant ***t.

[@TwoBrokeGamers2]

I thought it was obvious that they meant first party games.

[@MLennholm]

The only thing it ever meant was that the publisher paid a license fee to Nintendo in order to get permission to use the CIC lockout chip that was required to make the cartridge work on an unmodified NES

[@Eladelia]

It should also be said that if this is how the company treats its customers, then we should be wary of how they're going to treat people on other platforms too. Are they going to be ignoring their privacy policy and using user data in ways they said they wouldn't? Are they going to actually fix bugs or just ignore them? Will they seek a cash infusion 3 months from now by introducing pay-to-win features? We can't know that, because they're clearly happy to screw people if they see an opportunity where they think it won't cost them.

[@dylanchilders]

Lmao p2w in a MK game??? The switch port may be objectively shit, but other than that NRS have a good track record of fair business practices

[@CoNiferousTM]

That’s a STRETCH, I get your point, but netherrealm studios is not a good example to make a point about user data and pay to win. This is just a case of a studio having a contract with Nintendo and having to put something on their platform, despite it having the strength of an Xbox 360 or ps3. Very little they could do

[@DsgSleazy]

@@dylanchildersAren’t these the guys that let you buy tokens to get easy fatalities? Seems fair for rich people, I guess. Then there was injustice 2…

[@dylanchilders]

@@DsgSleazy how is that pay to win though? Easy fatality tokens? Dog just do the input like everyone else

[@kidn00b1]

Easy fatalities = p2w??? Bro you got to win first to use a fatality LMAO.

[@ChristochatBTW]

Dude... With Nintendo first party titles looking so good, why don't devs try to rebuild the games from the geound back up for the intstead of trying to just turn the graphics down till it works

[@mikelitten7489]

Anyone that actually believed the Switch (a beefed up WII-U) could run MK1 anywhere close to acceptable, deserved to have their money taken.

[@LilyMaeBlossom]

Except it could, it's still a 2.5d game. The power required should be near non-existant as long as you spend a proper few days adjusting the backgrounds and gfx. Instead they just toned down character models, which is known to actually cause even more rendering issues for certain games. I hate the damn console, but frankly even a ps3 could run this if it was just....cared about right.

[@IWish2500]

If you bought MK1 for switch and didn’t expect this to be the case, you have nobody to blame but yourself

[@chrisharmon1985]

Crazy part is that its not on ps4 or xbox1

[@cameronbrown9266]

I’d love to see this compared to MK9 on the 360

[@TheCurtRoberts]

Yeah they are going to have to up the hardware performance on their next console. Still love the switch though!

[@JRChuxx]

MK1 on the switch should have been priced at a mobile game type of price, not $70. That's just insane.

[@Maddog52103]

Its still 70?! Looking like that! That’s crazy lmao

[@imnottsuki7978]

It should be 50$ lmao

[@skywalker9379]

​@@imnottsuki7978not even 50$ but 20$ would be fare for this type of qaulity which is trash.

[@imnottsuki7978]

@@skywalker9379 i understand you but we know that would never happen to a "top tier" game like this. At least not at launch or soon.

[@silverwalker2934]

​@MKUltraSurvivornintendo didnt make the price thats the price thst they were given

[@runbaa9285]

Even if it looks bad, people wouldn't be complaining so much if it runs at a smooth and stable 60 FPS. Which is, y'know, kinda vital for a fighting game. But not only does it look ugly, but it can't maintain a constant 60 FPS most of the time. At least the ugly visuals would've been justified if it ran like a dream, but it doesn't...

[@blueflare3848]

No, I disagree, only because it’s false advertising. They were showing gameplay captured on a PC to advertise for the Switch.

[@Tim85-y2q]

@@blueflare3848 TBH in this day and age, people should be able to tell the difference, or at least have enough knowledge to be skeptical.

[@nicholasnardone4139]

The thing is, I own both the PS4 & Switch versions of MK11. While I've obviously sunk more hours into the PS4 version, which IS the better version, I don't mind playing the Switch version on occasion (I actually play it more often now cuz I'm in college and didn't take the PS4 with me), cuz even though the visuals aren't too flattering, at least it's consistently 60 FPS and all the features are there, and even when it dips, it's not horrifically awful (except for the Krypt lol) MK1 looks like what people feared MK11 was going to be like, and to price it at $70 like its *next-gen* counterparts is greedy af

[@Amanwhofellintotherivera-sk9tz]

@@nicholasnardone4139 the krypt serves it's purpose, and nothing else.

[@FraserSouris]

Even the MK game on VITA ran at 60 FPS lol

[@dustinfoto]

I think another big issue is showing trailers for games on different platforms without the trailers representing what the actual quality is for each platform. If the eShop trailer for this game represented the actual gameplay then the buyer would be more responsible but thats not the case.

[@donnyg9993]

Also shady how on the Eshop you can’t look at any game screenshots like you can with other games

[@dustinfoto]

@@donnyg9993 Thats even worst. Its certainly lying by omission.

[@vlogactionTV]

Fucking facts!!!!

[@donnyg9993]

@@dustinfoto it’s not like this port was an impossible job either, they just got cheap and lazy and hired a mobile game dev team to handle it. MK11 looking and running as good as it does on the switch was seen as an impossible task at the time

[@jxwong_3982]

Yeah, they really shouldn’t have used the PC VERSION for the release trailer of the Switch version, even with how blatant it was (even had a Steam notification on the bottom right at one point, lol-and it still looks and runs better than the Switch version). At least Nintendo became aware enough after the backlash to pull that trailer from their KZbin channel.

[@ASpooneyBard]

Remember back in the Nintendo Wii days, when developers were aware that the Wii was graphically inferior to the Xbox 360 so instead of cramming a huge game into a little box, they would make, essentially, a new game from the ground up that somewhat resembled it's Xbox cousin but worked flawlessly on the console, and sold it for a discount? They would sometimes even have a unique story to give it extra value and those would have a different title so you know it's different. Of course some developers did just squeeze their game down (I think the COD4 Wii port is infamous) but those always got bad reviews and sold poorly.

[@ayebalake]

They are to lazy to do that now.

[@-nexusxv-8514]

Here's a BETTER Idea don't make a switch port If the game can't run on that platform then why bother porting it honestly waste of money from the company point of view

[@iihellionii9742]

Hey now the Wii versions of CoD World at War and CoD 4 Modern Warfare Reflex were amazing. Graphically yes they were poor but they were so damn fun. The controls took some getting used to but worked amazingly well. Medal of Honor Heroes 2 and those CoDs were some of my most played games back in the day.

[@charliekelly735]

Apparently the CoD Wii games were dope

[@Spectacular_Insanity]

I remember that the Wii version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed had an exclusive Mara Jade costume for Starkiller. That shit was dope.

[@Butter625]

Who thought it be a good idea to port anything next gen to the switch?

[@ACameronUK]

Current-gen 👍

[@65firered]

NRS apparently.

[@dominicarroyo6269]

That's why I said day one when they announced what platforms it would be on and was confused about this and said this wasn't going to work. Switch can be the most console all day,still don't make sense to release it on there when it can even run it

[@KenLinx]

didnt MK11 run pretty well on the Switch? They just didn't try this time around.

[@65firered]

@@KenLinx It did not.

[@walkerg.6961]

Crazy to me that Mortal Kombat 11 for the switch was actually pretty comparable in my opinion. It was actually my only platform for a while, and I did not feel as if it was inferior to the level that this is.

[@obnoxious_alien]

It's been a year since I played MK11 on the Switch but I do remember it was mostly running smoothly...only times it was lagging was in the Krypt when I opened some chests

[@Tim85-y2q]

Yeah MK 11 was pretty decent on Switch. To be fair, this game was developed primarily for next gen hardware though.

[@walkerg.6961]

@@Tim85-y2q very true but then you can’t ignore the massive stone base of the switch. That being said there shouldn’t be forced expectations just because something is on the switch so honestly, it was kind of a lose lose situation in my opinion.

[@BrokenReality124]

I think that because the newgen based consoles make the games run to the best of their mobility it's more smooth than if u try to run a game on an old ish console per say like the pc,xbox,ps4 .personally I played mk11 with my brother and his fiance just yesterday and I really enjoyed it. (They had it on ps4) played really smoothly more so than what I've saw in this video for the switch. I've owned a switch since whenever they first came out at around Christmas time I was given my first switch, I didn't know anything about it nor did I really warm up to it quickly. But I slowly started to get adjusted the more games I played on it. I think it's more of a personality thing, if u want the games to play more Smoothly just play on consoles that are kind of new gen when and if u have the money. Ps4 pc Xbox ect. And play the games your comfortable with, if u want to play on switch it's fine. Also for giggles my brother single handedly got me hooked on mk11 lmao, good going 👏

[@jomben]

a month late but i wanted to second mk11 on the switch being decent!i was honestly super impressed with how well it runs

[@Albert_YTC]

It’s genuinely an unspoken rule that you don’t buy any games on switch that aren’t made by Nintendo

[@yourfavoriteflower7253]

yet why is that a rule cant excuse the state of the games

[@_V.Va_]

Not really. A bunch of Indie games on there are really good. But also a couple big games that don't run the best but I enjoy nonetheless on NS are Overwatch, DOOM and Bayonetta.

[@MechanicalX1]

Agreed!

[@FraserSouris]

As someone who mostly buys non-Nintendo games on Switch, I disagree, there are plenty of decent ports on Switch by non-Nintendo companies. the Assassin's Creed games, the patched GTA Trilogy Collection, MK11, Tony Hawk etc are all good ports

[@legometaworld2728]

@@FraserSouris Don't know if I'd call GTA Trilogy Collection a good port.

[@martinez206045]

The un-skipable cinematics are masking loading screens. Whenever you see a cinematic that can't be skipped (PC or console) there's a 95% chance it's hiding a loading screen. Or you are playing in Play-Go on PS 4/5. Then, it's not only hiding loading screens, it's buying time for the download / install to finish.

[@lazycouchman]

One thing to mention is the Switch version is missing an entire mode that they said would come later, so it's inferior in pretty much every way. Graphically it's bad, but the missing invasions mode or whatever it's called seems like a big deal too cause I already expected the graphics to look bad. But yeah, I feel pretty bad for switch owners getting these awful glitchy broken games. Especially at $70 even though it is definitely not a next gen game at all lol

[@kirechix]

Invasions is like 40% of the game.

[@ramoruso14]

Invasion is on switch now tho

[@jeffwiese4037]

Those two story fights were a great way of comparison, one in daylight one at night to see just how poor the switch version looks, let alone runs.

[@ArthurDayne69]

Switch should just release a new device at this point with good specs.

[@mrshmeep9314]

@@ArthurDayne69 That would be revolutionary. It's really hard to make a good handheld not because it's hard to make hardware compact but because it's hard to keep compact ones cool and running for a long time. Biggest drawbacks of good spec handhelds are heat and battery life and switch's games (besides the occasional AAA titles they decide to release for whatever reason) just don't require that much hardware, so they focused more on battery life. They could, however, make a non-handheld like the other big contenders but there's not much point. Switch exclusive games nowadays won't make that much of a difference and people can just play Witcher 3, MK1 etc on PC or other strong consoles.

[@DsgSleazy]

@@ArthurDayne69Switch should just stay in its lane tbh. Phones will be able do its job soon enough (if they’re already able to somewhat) and it’s a useless overpriced toy for any game that isn’t lightweight asf. Publishers need to stop releasing their big boy titles on it for an extra low effort buck.

[@TheBestShirt]

this is the wrost take ive ever seen@@DsgSleazy

[@OspaykO]

Back in the day you would have been crazy to charge $60 or $70 for a Gameboy or DS port of a game released on home consoles.

[@hannahw7023]

Worst part is that the nintendo store doesnt allow refunds if you buy a game digitally. If you bought this game only to be disappointed by the quality, you're out $70.

[@sibusiso2841]

Worst part they skipped the ps4 & xbox one but made a switch port

[@skyMcWeeds]

WB NRS deserve all the shitstorm heading their way, its a damn poor port that should've never been made, all in the name of cash grabbing the poor Switch install base

[@paperclip6377]

​@@sibusiso2841dude those consoles are last gen now. You need to accept the fact that releasing games on them is useless.

[@samburgerwithcheeze8145]

​@@paperclip6377And the switch isnt? What theyre trying to say is why cut off xbox one and ps4 if theyre gonna make an even worse version for the switch. Mk11 on switch was ALSO terrible so you can say that if they were gonna make a port on a much worst next gen, why not also put it on xbox one and ps4?

[@paperclip6377]

@@samburgerwithcheeze8145 well the difference is that there are now current gen Xbox's and PS4's but there isn't a new switch.

[@Alexthelion93]

Doesn't look like they expected anyone to actually buy it on the switch. They just made this version to win a bet or sth, to show that it can be done, lol. 😂

[@VSN-wb2ly]

Idk man but the Witcher 3 or monster hunter world which is clearly AAA games run better than this, they don't even try

[@donnyg9993]

NRS was probably contractually obligated to by WB because the switch is technically a “current gen” system

[@BlueTurn]

​@@VSN-wb2lyeven something like Xenoblade chronicles 3 looks so damn good on switch. I don't understand how some ports can't get that outta the switch.

[@bigTHULU]

@@donnyg9993switch was worth the “effort” but ps4 wasn’t??? a goddamn shame

[@UbersyncZ]

You mean scam? If they knew it was unplayable on that console and released it for full price it’s a scam

[@frankbauerful]

The pre-rendered video glitches prove that they didn't even try to optimize it. When you look at the actual fights you can see how much background detail there is which of course takes up rendering capacity. If they had optimized it for playability they would have changed the backgrounds to be much less detailed so that they can put more details into the characters. But they just took the existing backgrounds and did some automated reduction.

[@FancyNeon]

My theory is that the porting team heard they were porting it to the switch laughed, realized they were being serious and just phoned it in

[@ld_rey]

@@FancyNeonhelpppp so true

[@Tim85-y2q]

@@FancyNeon That would wash if they hadn't pulled of MK 11 so well on Switch. The bar was high so people aren't inclined to accept any BS.

[@magicznygrzegorz5828]

You couldnt do fatal blow because you didnt have your blade hat yet. In story mode if a character is before his final form you can only use his "mortal" moveset. Logic i guess

[@XrentonX17]

There should be laws to protect the right for a refund. Maybe have the Devs put in a system that tracks what % of the game the person has played say like 50% and that's the cut off for any chance of a refund and have playtime matter so large RPG's don't have people playing 60 hours but staying under that completion threshold to get a refund. The whole system is flawed and needs to be looked at

[@ASpooneyBard]

I agree, but I think Steam's 2 hour unconditional refund policy is not perfect but good enough. For example, Destiny 2 is a lot of fun for the first 10-20 hours, but if you can't get into the endgame grind, it just has nothing for you (and yes, I know D2 is free, but it wasn't until recently and there's plenty of other games with the same problem). On the other hand, you don't need 2 hours to figure out that this game is a ripoff. We watched less than 20 minutes here. A lot of recent games have had the same effect too. I think if every platform had the same policy, it wouldn't solve all problems, but we'd be a lot better off.

[@Ghost-fc9hw]

​@ASpooneyBard The 2 hours is also just a suggestion, they've granted exemptions to a fair bit of things if you just ask, or say your hardware couldn't handle the game past a certain point. The actual cutoff is 2 weeks from purchase where it becomes fully refund ineligible

[@Tim85-y2q]

Or people who are that concerned can just wait until the game comes out and they can get the info to make an informed choice to begin with.

[@leonc9760]

How did they get away with this level of deceit with no repercussions?

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

it happens all the time in gaming. CEO of CDPR said the xbox one and ps4 version of Cyberpunk played great and then the games came out broken with 1 second stuttering and FPS dropping to like 8fps. Did anything happen after all the lies? no

[@leonc9760]

@@tHeWasTeDYouTh I also remember that bs about cyberpunk “running really well” on last gen consoles and the fake gameplay they showed that was supposedly ps4 footage. If Cdpr can get away with that and hello games got away with no man’s sky false advertising then they can get away with anything

[@purplejinxer3478]

People buy and then don't do anything big enough to cause repercussions.

[@danielsan9850]

I bought the Steam version of this game and absolutely loved it that I was considering buying the Switch version so I can play it on the go (and no, I don’t have a Steam deck). It wasn’t until a coworker told me how bad it was. Bro was just looking out for me and I am eternally grateful.

[@Humbie11]

To be fair, the graphics aren’t what many people are looking for in a fighting game and if that was the only issue it would be alright, but screen tearing on simply playing a video and so many instances of laughably bad visual glitches is unacceptable. I would buy the game for 80$CAN if it was old-school pixelated but actually WORKED, but now I’m stuck with 150$CAN premium version on Nintendo switch.

[@aledantih6524]

You're right to an extent, graphics aren't the main thing people look for in a fighting game but I'd say in the case of this game the muddyness of the graphics actually might hinder some projectiles. Like I noticed Scorpions rope spear was actually super hard to see with the background in the restaurant stage and you need to know which attack he's doing because he also has a low move with that rope dart as well. So the graphics here can absolutely mess someone up.

[@LilyMaeBlossom]

Graphics are arguably one of the top things to look for in a fighting game though? It's not like other games where you're looking for beautiful backgrounds and whatnot, but with fighting games you have to make sure gfx don't clash and match hitboxes near perfectly. What's more, there needs to be stability for online play, otherwise you end up with major backlash because....well you're probably going to fight other people in a fighting game, I know, shocker. You're certainly not looking for shit like Hogwarts Legacy, but rather a balance to ensure quality control.

[@Humbie11]

@@LilyMaeBlossom Couldn’t pixelated graphics accomplish that just fine?

[@GoldenLeafsMovies]

How did this happen? The previous one looked pretty good, the only bad thing was the blurriness and the lag but like the actual models looked pretty good.

[@nick9115]

cus it's porting a game intended for next gen on an almost 7 year old console that could barely run games on its own gen

[@Amanwhofellintotherivera-sk9tz]

@@nick9115 Mario kart 8, tears of the kingdom, breath of the wild, SSB:U, Mario maker 2 and the witcher three: wild hunt: *I'll ignore that.*

[@Numely]

@@Amanwhofellintotherivera-sk9tz witcher 3 looks like trash wym

[@DeadPixel1105]

15:01 This is something I've always appreciated about Steam. The last few years, I've been hearing about how difficult and annoying it can be trying to get refunds on consoles. But every single time I've ever refunded a game on Steam, the refund is completed and the money is back in my bank account within hours.

[@AA-sw5pb]

And steam is flexible even if you've played over 2 hours they will still give you a refund depending on the circumstances. Ps4 and 5 if you've installed the game your fucked getting a refund unless the game is literally unplayable

[@notyou6674]

keep in mind that this quality cannot be excused by lack of hardware, look at the visuals of the other games on switch like doom and smash etc

[@asimcoe9000]

Thanks, dude, as a Switch user, I appreciate your honesty and patience in explaining in layman's terms. I'm sad I won't be able to play, but am happy not to waste the monies.

[@Amanwhofellintotherivera-sk9tz]

I'm saving up for a series S to play. Partly because of MK1 and partly cuz' I wanna play my XBOX 360 games again

[@clinquant]

I wish they added this game on the Xbox One or PS4! I feel like it would’ve worked really well but instead it’s on the switch. Oh well 😭

[@josefwestberg]

well if you want a fighting game for free then you should ceck out mortal kombat mobile, cause the graphics are leagues better then the crap nintendo threw out

[@Hylton_Hotelz]

just get mk11 on switch. it runs better, looks better, and is on sale for $10 pretty much all the time

[@Viper-dz2kw]

This whole thing reminds me of the early/mid 2000’s era where different consoles had different versions of games

[@vaporazeen]

"Nintendo should step up and probably D-list this due to the quality" My friend have you seen Pokemon Scarlet/Violet?

[@blueflare3848]

I’m not excusing the bad performance that Scarlet and Violet suffered from, but at least the game looked visually pleasing.

[@coltonwilkie241]

Scarlet and Violet are nowhere near as bad as MK1. Scarlet and Violet actually function and the worst the game gets is like 20fps in busy areas. The problems in the games are so minor that they don't even matter that much. MK1 just doesn't work. It's constantly going from 60fps to 40 to 12 to 5 back to 25 then down again to 5.

[@limewater4074]

​@@coltonwilkie241And that's not even mentioning the fact that the game is the same price as the other ports despite LACKING CONTENT THAT THE OTHER PORTS HAVE. It's a straight up scam.

[@sirspookybones1118]

While scarlet/violet run like ass, its not as detrimental to an RPG than a fighting game.

[@DayFul]

The PS5 version is jaw droppingly gorgeous at times, The facial animations are some of the best in the industry. It really shouldn't cost as much on the switch given the gulf in quality.

[@donnyg9993]

Bought it on PS5 and was amazed at how seamless the game is when going between cutscenes and gameplay

[@DayFul]

@@donnyg9993 The environments are so good and the facial expressions particularly Johnny Cage feel truly next gen.

[@lloytron9105]

@DayFul yeah i thought the facial animations this time were particularly impressive this time around

[@donnyg9993]

@@DayFul it’s also gotta be my favorite story mode. Haven’t finished it yet but the way they created a backstory for every character introduced was handled way better than MK9. Also appreciate how the female characters are more realistic looking with more practical outfits and have more purpose in the story than just being eye candy

[@JustFun-ho6qy]

I still think the Netherealm games sorta stink in terms of animation quality, but the art assets are definitely great.

[@ToyKeeper]

If a game has poor performance or weak core gameplay, it may as well not exist. Game studios need to make sure those aspects are totally solid before they even consider attempting fancy graphics or photorealism. A lot of games seem to have backward priorities.

[@Robb_99]

"We have Mortal Kombat 1 at home" Mortal Kombat 1 at home:

[@benjaminzarkhin1293]

The most noticeable missing graphical features are lack of shadowing ANYWHERE besides the character casting one on the environment floor, textures are completely smoothed out and thus the PBR just makes everything look glossy and all the cloth simulation is rendered at half the framerate, so as a character swings in 60 FPS you can see the cloth render at half the speed. The models seems surprisingly almost at full detail, but the the lack of facial animations half of the time, shadows and textures make them look like clay figures.

[@samslenderman]

This is on both Nintendo and NR Studios. NR should, as stated obviously, never have launched a broken title at $70 without any heads up at all, Expecting consumers to either accept it or just wait 6 months for patches and updates, and it's on Nintendo for not having QA checks, ensuring the 3rd party games being sold on their console, are not broken and will not upset their customers. Also, this is yet another example of how Nintendo needs to put out an updated, current Gen Console.. This is not a downgraded version on an older console.. this is a BROKEN version, so anyone who believes that it's the fault of the people who chose to buy it on Switch.. are jerks and they're wrong. It's not a weaker version, its a broken version. I feel bad for the gamers who got this on Switch, especially the ones who bought digital from eShop.. which Luke is correct in stating they essentially have no return policy at all.

[@jxwong_3982]

Nintendo has at least been willing to offer refunds on some occasions in the past when players emailed their CS directly over their dissatisfaction with their games, most recently with Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. And they definitely know how poorly received MK1 on Switch was if they took down its trailer, which used misleading PC footage, off their own KZbin channel. Hopefully they’re willing to offer the same treatment to dissatisfied gamers this time around as well. Nintendo’s quality control on their eShop in general has just been ridiculously poor, with shovelware all over the place. This is not new to the Nintendo Switch by any means. I don’t see why they’d stop it at all for a major new IP offering them to support their systems, given that turning down third-party support would be a return to older times and thoroughly shooting them in the foot, but perhaps Nintendo could’ve pointed them to the more powerful Switch 2 instead given how they’re currently distributing devkits for that already.

[@MLennholm]

It's also a bit on the US legislature for not having proper consumer protection laws in place. In the EU, they're obligated by law to offer a full refund no questions asked within 14 days of the purchase.

[@skateorpie]

Yes exactly. This is legitimately a bad port. MK11 looked wayyy better than this. Hell, Street Fighter 4 on the 3DS looked better! It’s an embarrassing port and it needs to be reworked and removed from the store asap

[@Tim85-y2q]

Broken might be a little much IMHO. Yes, it looks and plays horribly, but it does play, more or less. There's a difference between broken (ie the game crashes before you can even play it) and just being a horrendously poor game/port.

[@BlueSunStudios1]

@@jxwong_3982 Nintendo is an incredibly old company run by people who have mindsets rooted in the old post war economic miracle days of Japan which, while most of the people who made it are no longer around, still pass on much of their business mindset onto the next generation through the aged and elderly. Have you seen how aged and elderly some of their presidents and executives can get or how archaic Nintendo's policies sometimes feel? Often far older than other companies' executives and such, and this is also not going into how Nintendo was thoroughly bested back in the 64 and Gamecube days when their focus was strictly making better hardware for their games instead of putting most of the development into a gimmick that they will advertise to the ground until it no longer sells and then they have to race for something "novel" to replace that with. They saw that that didn't work back then against their competitors simply making better hardware and are very reluctant to embrace new technological advancements or forward development thinking (not a Japanese issue but an issue their culture distinctly faces), so they shifted focus on the "dancing bear" trope, attracting customers through flashy attractions instead of solid hardware. To be fair, given the whole Phillips CDi nonsense back then, they still very likely heavily distrust 3rd parties making content on or handling their systems and don't want to invest in them too much to focus on their core games.

[@kat.tozier2917]

how did they think it was a good idea to put it in this state on switch, it's crazy to me. the cutscenes look good and then boom, you are jumpscared with the awful graphics of the main game when fighting

[@spoonyluv19]

There's a whole "We'll fix it later" mentality with a lot of games which, back in my day, was unacceptable AF. Heck the only reason most bethesda games are still relevant is the fact that modders get a hold of it and patch a bunch of stuff for them.

[@kanglao4575]

Honestly, never seen your channel before. But I have been loving the way you provide such insight or present topical examples for these interesting discussions. Keep it up because your channel is standing out in the best ways!

[@DeadPixel1105]

Yeah, he's one of my favorite KZbinrs.

[@kass946]

Agreed, I haven’t played nor plan to play a good amount of the games he covers and I still watch all of the videos bc I love critiques and I love games lol

[@ShOscar]

For a game like MK1, it woulda been more feasible to make a dedicated version just for switch, rather than just take the PC version and essentially turn down all the graphics. Not like a completely different version, but the same game with models and levels that are handcrafted to be made to run on a lower end system. Make the backgrounds less detailed, the characters more smoothed out, etc

[@jamesgoines4635]

😂 Man the switch sure is having a hard time rendering all 3 of those polygons.

[@dr.eldontyrell-rosen926]

In 2023 Switch is a sad pathetic joke

[@Goodygood74]

I didn't know they put mortal Kombat 1 on the PS2 😅

[@Mangaka-ml6xo]

It kind of feels like the cinematics are being loaded on a disk, but it's on a cartridge, that shouldn't happen. For how bad the characters look, I'm somewhat surprised by the amount of details of the backgrounds, not the characters, but objects and structures are alright. Just to be clear, I have only seen the one map that was played in this video, it could be the best of the bunch, I have no clue. 👍

[@65firered]

PC: "It belongs in a museum." Switch: "This is not a brutality. This is a fatality."

[@cane9278]

This is truly MK1 on a budget

[@thataintfalco7106]

I can confirm, Astro Bears is genuinely some of the best fun I’ve had with my family. Go buy it, and support the brilliant dev team. Great video as always Luke.

[@thejaded]

Speedrunners, Gang Beasts, Stick Fight, Rubber Bandits are some I'd recommend as well. Me and my best mate played them, good fun ✌🏿

[@kysenkeith6897]

The best part is that when you try to go buy the game on switch there is no game previews at all, no screenshots, no videos, no gameplay. You really just go un blind

[@orlando5789]

So then why are you buying a copy of the game on Switch? Were the IGN videos not enough? Your purchase of this game will only tell NRS that this is an okay thing to do - when it's not

[@Wobbothe3rd]

Watch the video, he addresses that.

[@Manguy20]

Even The mobile mortal kombat game looks better than the switch version

[@tonydeluna8095]

For switch, I am skeptical to play new gen games. I would play MK1 on either Series X or PS5

[@chester896]

I had only a switch for a really long time, and a lot of indie games run super well on it. But porting MK1 to switch and still charging $70 for it? Insane.

[@TheLastofTheVoids]

This video should've been released WAYYY earlier bc I bought the game and it was HORRIBLE, but thankfully the update did fix somethings so its kind of an upgrade

[@Hellaluyeah]

You made a great point there at 15:39. The only people, that are going to buy this, are people, who do not know, what they are getting themselves into. I think at 70 Dollars on Switch, you can't expect the same game as on other plattforms, but you can expect a game, that looks as good as other switch games look and if you can't downgrade a game enough, so that it looks like anything else playable on the switch, there is no reason for it being on the switch.

[@tomgibbs4552]

If you ask me, pretty much every game looks horrible on Switch. I dont even bother with switch games now unless they're console exclusive

[@devilsorchard1449]

It's pretty neat that Deadly Alliance got a Switch port! I'm glad NRS is showing love to the Midway era!

[@Subgenrelol]

9:53 “I guess, man..” lmaooo

[@BlackXSunlight]

I think a valuable element to this conversation is the longstanding controversies regarding how NRS treats their staff and developers. Even with, presumably, double the development cycle, we’re still getting a buggy mess. On Ps5 and XBox S, people are reporting a lot of QoL problems and crashes, and artificially inflated content hidden behind staggered releases and paywalls.

[@NALTOHQ]

I still wonder why they ported it to Switch, but said no to PS4 or Xbox One. Im sure its just money. The PS4 could definitely handle this better than Switch.

[@robemanchester2277]

I can't say I expected much more on the switch, I do feel like many people understand what they're getting into buying these new Switch ports but at the same time... full price for this compromised version is not right. They should really have done the last gen/current gen pricing model of $60/$70 at the minimum for what really is a massive visual downgrade (really that's the biggest change here aside load times, another current gen upgrade). I think this is only bad for the price, otherwise... I'm kind of impressed? 60 fps on switch is no small task

[@carbagehealth9634]

Not upset OR surprised in the least... honestly what did people expect? The switch's hardware is insanely outdated and even was when it first launched, it wasn't even comparable to last gen consoles, let alone current gen or pc. This is the price you pay for wider third party support till Nintendo stops being so lazy and at least half ass attempts to start releasing their consoles in the same realm as current ones!

[@sonoftheredfox]

I'll just go over to Best Buy and play that home arcade display model with OG Mortal Kombat on it. Thanks Luke!

[@tomazzo8093]

Curious... they refuse a PS4 and X-Box One release, but waste resources on a horrible Switch version.

[@ShoNuffKMW]

Thank you! I've said the same thing about people intentionally trying to break games and making it seem worse than what it is - trash players blaming the game for their own incompetence, always keep a lookout for those clowns, GTFOH.. 😒 However, that's not the case here, this IS just garbage - the comparison is ridiculously bad!

[@ElKennyBagnis]

They look like the character models from the Spider-Man 3 video game on the 360

[@stevemcfarlane3644]

I I appreciate that Luke essentially does the reverse of click bait thumb nails, telling us the summary in the caption.

[@McSomething15]

Nintendo is complicit as well. They had to certify the game to appear on their platform.

[@kerrlyfry9719]

I'm a little behind. But is this on the base model switch or on the OLED model? I also bought the premium version of MK1 as a pre-order, in June for the switch.

[@iyiosuko1449]

Hey switch player here, I think the game was super fun: I am excited for the bug fixes and load time fixes. I can’t wait to see this game become more refined. I do not care much for graphics, I just wanted to be able to play mk on the go. With my current situation in finance, it made sense for me.

[@gechoman44iwantahippo]

This is the version I have, and frankly, I don’t care about the graphics almost at all, and the game is still mostly functional, so I’m fine with it. That being said, this version has other problems that need to be fixed ASAP (like Invasions not being completely out yet and the visual GLITCHES….).

[@gechoman44iwantahippo]

When I say mostly functional, I mean it functions well enough for me. Honestly, I don’t even get much lag during actual gameplay (it happens, but not often). Usually it’s glitches with the textures for me.

[@Manan_K]

I dont think it is a MK1 problem it's a Switch Problem

[@doobiouswolf9587]

I'm surprised no one has sued for false advertising, especially when there was an already established expectation of some level decent quality.

[@Billioncompany786]

Nice Idea for testing a game by yourself, I think they shouldn't even port for Switch if they can't make it work with less compromises. Overall rest of port works amazingly and the game is amazing. I can't say for PC port yet since there are some bugs in that version that needed to be fix. If you can please play the storymode, It's great.

[@Eladelia]

This is clearly not an issue of not being able to make it work with less compromises. This is a case of zero effort. They didn't even remove the steam achievement references. Think of how nonexistent the QA process for this product had to be for there to have been no one who ever said "Hey guys? Why is this Switch game trying (and failing) to give me Steam achievements?"

[@Billioncompany786]

@@Eladelia I didn't defended them, I think other ports are better. I clearly said that they shouldn't make Switch port in first place if they couldn't make the game with the same level of quality with less compromises.

[@TheSpaceJockey91]

I mean, the switch can handle better graphics than that. Just look at the Metroid Prime Remaster and Super Smash Bros Ultimate. Heck, even Super Mario Odyssey. This is 1996 level of bad graphics. This is just lazy and disgusting by WB Games and NRS. If they can't make it at least look decent, then they should've cancelled the switch version.

[@darkron288]

As someone who has about 50 hours in the switch port at this point, the port is not THAT bad, the bones of the game are strong and when it works, it works really REALLY well, the problems though are big enough to say "don't buy this yet" but its not the awful mess the internet makes it out to be, and the port itself is infact quite salvagable, it will NEVER be visually a spectiatcle, but if they can sort out the bugs and slowdown it would be a pheonimal way to play mk1 on the go

[@OutwardYapper]

Agreed

[@woldemunster9244]

When it works? Don't buy this yet? IF they fix, it WOULD be a PHENOMENAL way to play? Sounds like hopium/copium overdose and sunken cost brainrot combo. If only you could play the OG trilogy that has the uncensored characters and locked 60fps.

[@iedutul1]

Bro the game doesn’t gave textures😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that’s a cashgrab

[@darkron288]

@@woldemunster9244 of course it would the game isn't awful if anything your on brainrot

[@DeadPixel1105]

I remember the days when a game would NOT be ported to an underpowered console and the devs would even explain: "It's really not practical to port to this console due to its limitations." But nowadays, with corporate greed being worse than ever before, publishers simply don't care. PROFIT!!! MONEY!!! That's all they care about. Product quality be damned. - Devs: "This console platform is too underpowered for this game. It will be a disaster." - Publisher: "But people will still buy it! MONEY!!! JUST DO IT!!!"

[@Gspi1005]

While I do agree that in this case its inexcusable, I do think there is a conversation around how much research a customer should be expected to do before spending that much money. I've always personally been against preorders, but if other people are dumb enough to spend money with a very limited amount of information, there is some level of personal responsibility.

[@65firered]

I mean sure but a game should work properly on the system it releases on. This... This is a little ridiculous.

[@bigredracecar27]

What kind of stupid consumer blaming is this? If you pay for a game it should work well

[@Eladelia]

Video games are very solidly in the category of "things that are often purchased by someone other than the one who'll be using it." There probably will be households where someone says, "Oh, my husband loves Mortal Kombat, the reviews say this Mortal Kombat is good, and look, it's available on the Switch. That'll be really convenient for him to be able to take it on work trips with him." It takes a certain baseline of knowledge to even be aware that port issues are a serious problem with video games to then even be aware that there's additional research to be done beyond a web search for "Mortal Kombat 2023 review" You shouldn't even need to do research to avoid something this obviously ridiculous. The development studio shouldn't have shipped it, the publisher shouldn't have packaged it up, and Nintendo should have refused to sell it for them.

[@TheAtkinson118]

While I do agree with your logic 100 percent..The bit I don't understand and I really mean this... What Switch owner out there right now believes that there little pocket rocket is going to give them the same level of fidelity as a high end PC?? Or even the more level headed switch owners, expecting to keep up with the Next Generation consoles...it just doesn't have the power to cope with games like this! It's a little bit like CYBERPUNK 2077 shouldn't have been released on last gen consoles... The switch simply is not made for some of today's modern games and switch owners should know what they have bought into.. A switch for me is for someone who loves Nintendo(nothing wrong with that)so you buy one as a second console next to your PC or next Generation consoles!

[@65firered]

@@TheAtkinson118 Same level? No. Work and run properly? By default. If it doesn't work properly on the Switch why release it for the Switch? If the game doesn't work properly on a system don't sell it on the system. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Greed is a poor excuse for screwing people over. Besides how is it the customer's fault for expecting a game they bought to work?

[@rafaelvolpiteixeira7315]

My PC is below the minimum recomendations, and still runs MK1 way better than the Switch lol

[@farisakhtar4824]

I'm not a game developer, but if the Witcher 3 can run well on the switch and look decent, why couldn't this be? I'm aware it didn't look great at the beginning, but after all the updates until present day you can actually make the game look much better than the release version (with little impact on performance, I should say). It's just a matter of how much effort developers are willing to put into the switch versions. Switch is underpowered but people treat it like it's a PS1.

[@donnyg9993]

NRS had a mobile game company make the switch port lmao they only did it because of contract requirements with WB most likely

[@farisakhtar4824]

@@donnyg9993 Exactly, it's not really fair on the switch as people assume this is the best it can do. In reality, it's just poor utilisation of the technology.

[@skyMcWeeds]

Its a lazy port job tbh, if WB NRS contracted the guys who made the The Witcher 3 or NieR Automata and gave them ample time to iron out the kinks and optimize the game it would look hell of a lot better than this turd version on the Switch.

[@LilyMaeBlossom]

@@farisakhtar4824 Literally nobody assumes this is the best it can do, I don't think there's a single person out there who doesn't know the biggest switch exclusives, which despite still looking like gen 3 bordering gen 4 games, look leagues better. This - this isn't even comparable to ps2. What people are saying though is it's no surprise. Switch is such an underpowered hardware that corners are almost always cut to get a "port" for it. What's more, the owners of Switch, Nintendo, normally give little to no damns, hence why this is so common.

[@farisakhtar4824]

@@LilyMaeBlossom I guess you must have missed all the comments and KZbinrs saying how this game should not have been released on the switch. If they believed the switch could do better they would not be saying this. People who bought MK11 on switch understand the switch is more capable, as that has acceptable graphics and performance relative to the hardware. I haven't heard a single person who believes this switch version wasn't right even acknowledge the MK11 switch release, like yourself. It's a fact most people are assuming this is the limit of the switch's capabilities by virtue of it being the weakest current gen console out no, and not many people owning one or being familiar with it. It's funny how everyone neglects the fact that patches will be released for the game on switch, and I bet it will make a drastic improvement. This has happened with so many switch titles now, just look at the Witcher 3 and The Outer Worlds. This is proof that it isn't the hardware that is the issue, but the effort of the developers and their familiarity with the switch hardware.

[@mehlessmidori602]

I was once avoiding the hate and thinking it'll get better with time like 11. But after hearing that they basically pushed to release it alongside the other versions, I basically said "forget it". They cancelled the last gen MKX port but they were cool with this.

[@ManiacMonkboon]

It's horrible and yet they (Nintendo) want to charge the same price, $69.99, as the other systems. Imo, it's worth $19.99 maybe, on the Switch and that's being generous. If, and that's a huge if I bought it, I'd pay the same as I did for MK 11 on Switch, $9.99 with all DLC included. 🤓

[@SvetloStalker]

Why would you review this game on the switch? At least for like a switch vs computer comparison. Seems like you are just trying to find a way to put the game down. Obviously A 2023 flagship game isn’t going port to a switch well. I do see the point you were making about pricing across platforms, I don’t think this game should be $70 on the switch. However, you are purchasing the same intellectual property that someone on a 4090 would be purchasing. So why should the gaming companies take that hit because you play on switch. Game costs the same money to develop for everyone you don’t get a break because you’re playing on a switch in 2023

[@AlbedoAtoned]

I think you misunderstood why people were bringing up the trailer. The Switch trailer wasn't showing footage of the game running on Switch, it was showing footage from the game running on a PC, hence why there was a steam achievement pop up. Because this is blatant false advertisement, Nintendo had to actually remove the trailer from their youtube channel. Steam Achievements don't actually pop up in the actual game on Switch as far as I know. It's not that they just put the Steam version on Switch because Switch uses an ARM based CPU while PC's are almost all x86_64 based. The game is also 100GB+ on PC, while it is 45+GB on Switch. It's just a shit port running on a platform that is more or less two gens behind tech wise. So whereas before devs could get away with porting to the Switch since they were being made to also run on the base PS4 and Xbox One, MK1 is a game made to run on much more powerful hardware. Which means that to get it to run on the Switch would take a lot of work, possibly even making a new engine from the ground up for it, but rather than go that route, the devs seemed to have done the bare minimum to get it on the switch, and a lot of the graphical issues seem more due to the fact that the Switch can't handle it all. It would always have been a visually downgraded port, but what consumers got is imo far worse because the visual downgrades significantly affect how the game looks far more than a visual downgrade normally would. Usually, when graphics get lowered to run on the Switch or lower end computers, you can still see a lot of the same aesthetics. The engine may even be working against them here. It's likely designed to prioritize a higher framerate, which makes sense for a fighting game especially, but the Switch seems unable to properly keep a 60fps framerate, so it may be purposely loading in lower quality assets and textures to stay as high as possible. Unfortunately, even then it can't keep 60 and people have shown it often struggling to keep 20 at times. It's been stated that a patch is coming, but I do question how much can be done to fix the port. IMO, any patch that actually fixes the issues will likely be to reduce and optimize the assets and code in a way that the Switch hardware can better handle. This might ironically make the game look better since it won't be loading the low quality meshes and texture placeholders as much, but I am still not sure that it would make the Switch version worth buying, certainly not for 70 dollars. And since the Switch was already using outdated hardware when it was released, which lead to it getting a lot of other ports that were lower quality than their PS, XB and PC counterparts. Now a days though it is even worse as phone users are emulating the Switch and the newest Iphone was even shown running Resident Evil 4 Remake.

[@ToxikDnB544]

It’s not even switch hardware - just lack of effort. Publishers have to understand if you want to develop for the switch you have to work around it and optimise your games to a level you dont have to with other consoles. See: Metroid Dread and Prime, Zelda BOTW and Subnautica (surprisingly given how buggy the other versions are). I get that publishers want to make money - but by not putting in the funding for a full switch port they’re losing the money and acclaim they could have.

[@mohamedrafik9271]

Idk why this guy looks fake, he doesn't look genuine at all. It is like a persona that is not fitting for him.

[@LukeStephensTV]

Totally agree

[@uumanebs]

I think a prime example of the shit that consumers in gaming are willing to accept would be Starfield. It gets praise for being the least buggy Bethesda game, ignoring that they literally designed the game to be played like a hamster wheel because doing "too much" in a single playthrough breaks it horribly. Before I went back to Baldur's Gate 3, half of New Atlantis had disappeared and probably 90% of the npc's are lost in and under the remaining textures. At 17 hours the bugs started to be consistent and at over 100hrs on a single playthrough its become unplayable with npc's literally walking off into space as parts of ships and space ports have been facing the same issue as New Atlantis. And, again, this game is praised for being the least buggy Bethesda game. Games are intentionally designed to prevent players from hitting issues early on so that they can't get refunds. I would compare it to phone developers intentionally patching their phones to brick them, but game developers are just releasing games to get you past the 2-5hr mark and are home free. If they can get it to the 15-20hr mark, they know most reviewers are never going to go past that point so so they don't have to worry about reviews scores suffering. And it really does seem like that's the goal for many developers these days. Rather than making a good game, the focus seems to be making a game that can reach those two thresholds before it implodes. As a gamer it's incredibly frustrating.

[@l0rf]

I don't think people are wrong for buying it on Switch. I think the publisher is to blame for just putting this onto the Switch with no regard for the hardware and that they would have to do a whole lot of work to make it work even remotely. Instead they placed a broken, barely modified PC game on Switch hardware, knowing it won't do what they promise. It's predatory and greedy.

[@omeromerrr4950]

What do you expect guys? It's 200$ device and released in fucking 2017. I think we even have to be grateful that they port mk1 to that.

[@IsoMacintosh]

8:20 The switch uses a mobile chip from 2015, newer AAA games will never look the same on it as other platforms. Also graphical differences used to be a common thing with early consoles and no one argued it's not the same game, that seems bit excessive.

[@FoxyGuyHere]

It looks and works a lot worse than Ps Vita games. And that's not very good for big system like Switch. It looks like ps2 game actually. Vita was closer to ps3 than ps2.

[@future_teknokrat7585]

Only someone who plays on multiple platforms would notice. It's a Switch, what did you expect? Its playable enough for a Switch owner.

[@LowResLeafa]

So the PS4/XB1 versions get canned but they'll port it a planform that's worse than the previous mentioned consoles.. make sense

[@juanignaciojimenez1986]

Optimization may be an issue for Nintendo, but it isn't as big as pricing, , not to mention the lack of substantial sales they have. You simply can't pretend to sell these games with triple AAA prices

[@marijunealejo1780]

*Running MK1 on Steam Deck* Other people: This looks better than the Nintendo Switch version Switch users: No it's not.

[@Interesting678]

Nintendo did the same thing back in the days when they launch Smash Bros for WiiU and the same for Gameboy 3DS, they lowered it all so it can be playable in the Gameboy

[@jpcjoinery6345]

for a kick off, how can they charge $70 which is supposedly the next gen cost of games, switch is not next gen. no one should purchase any game for the switch at $70 its not current gen full stop

[@Grandmaster-m2v]

I loved Mk1, even the memes are all so great, this news hurts me so badly, I hope they do something, like new story or new characters, or even a new avatar customization.