Mortal Kombat 1 is Outselling Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6

[@reezy2487]

Well it’s not a shocker Mortal Kombat always outsells Tekken and Street Fighter

[@sabrvibes3147]

The first 30 seconds of this very video provides the context (basically everyone dunks on MK) on which this discussion is even been had.

[@EtherealSoul861]

'' will always '' not really.. nothing is forever,, and things change all the time,,plus with every mk game their reputation gets worse ..

[@davidterlecki7594]

Tekken was the number 1 selling franchise for a time. A long time ago.

[@reezy2487]

@@EtherealSoul861I agree i don’t play MK i prefer Tekken And Street Fighter

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

They are also sold in more countries than MK.

[@Herrsch_]

The whole Helldivers thing wasn't even what the Devs wanted, that was just Sony being Sony. All in all, just because a game outsells doesn't mean it can retain those players no matter the genre

[@daedrascrolls]

The Helldivers devs knew exactly what they were getting into. They agreed to do this so Sony would give them their money.

[@Herrsch_]

To be fair, we’ll never know what was exactly said since we weren’t there nor have the full information of what their exact deal was outside of Sony helping fund the project. Even so, if the Devs were on board with it, don’t you think they wouldn’t have been as transparent as they were and also want to ensure their player base wasn’t getting shafted?

[@BLN_Snake]

the reason it sells is because on the cover it says Mortal Kombat

[@bilalbeirouti6351]

True and the game is trash

[@shadowofthenorthstar989]

yep its only selling on name alone so who cares

[@stuckwchuck]

backhanded comment ignores the work they put in to get there.

[@bilalbeirouti6351]

@@stuckwchuck mk was my fav game of all time mk 123 and x the rest for me are trash

[@coreyharris6998]

I don’t wanna hear it, reaver when y’all made fun of mk and it’s not trash by the way and also MK ALWAYS OUTSELLS THE is

[@brightlight5922]

As a wise man once said: Mortal Kombat is the McDonald’s of fighting games

[@414Mufasa]

Nah thats the copium excuse, they are just better and actually make games with lore and variety, even with shitty MK1 they have a better roster than both other games nobody new is buying SF to see Ryu do Shinku Hadoken, Shin Shoryuken as his supers for the 30th time we've been there saw that since the Sega was out, nobody is seeing a Asuka trailer in Tekken and thinking damn she has a dope concept I need to buy that game while literally every character in MK has a stanbase, happens when you have actual lore and interesting characters you have literal Kombat kids in MK that have bigger fanbases than older characters in those others where are Ryu or Ken's kids? Where are their good characters period? Taking out Vega, Balrog, and not using Sean Necro or Twelve but bringing a stud from Italy and a dry Judo wrestler isn't selling extra copies

[@beegdawg]

@@414Mufasa , allat yapping yet all 3 of these games pale in comparison to Virtua Fighter.

[@414Mufasa]

@@beegdawg game is historically midtastic

[@ametozukumazu6073]

​​@@414Mufasa That's not a copium anymore, that's a straight up lie. If you do your research instead of speaking out of your ass, Street Fighter and Tekken always said in their interviews that their new games are casual centered. SF crew straight up said their goal is to make the game more attractive towards many players possible in recent ZZZ X SF crossover. Harada been speaking about aggressive and cinematic gameplay every possible moment. That's why they put non FGC Vtubers and KZbinrs to play, make defense simpler and focus on aggressive play, put powerups, installs everywhere, overall make their games easier. About MK's story mode and Kombat Kids. Did you know how well received Kung Jin, Jackie, Kotal, Shao and Twindel or Kronkia? There is billion vidoes of 4th Snake, SonicXD and other people who care about the MK lore, not giving a single praise for Redditor Shao, Green Arrow but his whole character is being Gay and Impulsive, female Jax and others. Every pro player hate NRS recent games and no one watches it because supporting pro scene when you have SonicFox most well known FG player is not worth in the eyes of WB, real fans are not satisfied with butchering MidWay story with politics and kindergarden level of villains. Since MkX, franchise always been performing the best in the first month and around 70% of these numbers thanks to people that will open the game again when their buddy gets to visit, let alone grinding Kombat League full of textbook players. Graphs speak to itself if your not believe me.

[@ametozukumazu6073]

​​@@beegdawgAs a competitor it died long ago. Don't be delusional.

[@Rye-1000]

mk being more popular is no surprise but the amount of content in the game is so lackluster compared to mk11 its pretty sad

[@Retro-Design-4033]

@@Rye-1000 how mk11 is way older

[@eldiablomaligno6662]

@@Retro-Design-4033 please shut up

[@Retro-Design-4033]

@@eldiablomaligno6662 bro what are you talking I'm not even talking🤣 this generation been texting so much they don't know the difference between texting and talking

[@eldiablomaligno6662]

@@Retro-Design-4033 what r u talking bout in that case if u want to be technical then stop texting stupid stuff then how about that

[@Retro-Design-4033]

@@eldiablomaligno6662 bro I text fact's mk11 when it first came out had the same amount of content as mk1 and that's fact's

[@MaoriGamerDood]

Seeing Ed and Harada together is always a great sight to see.

[@lockim10]

Its easy to sell well when its always on deep discount

[@tmerchead1]

Nice cope.

[@ardidsonriente2223]

MK1 is the most perfect proof that popularity doesn't means quality. NRS managed to make people buy a competitive game they don't play competitively at all. Its almost like a Gym subscription, people pay it just to have it, then they just let it rot alone.

[@shadowofthenorthstar989]

yep

[@dec2567]

That's were you wrong again mk casuals don't care about the competitive side at all. The people who buy mk don't care about that they just want to play their favorite characters and see what story they have. That's why mk sells yeah the gore is a selling point for some,but it's mainly the characters and stories we love.

[@lucastonoli3256]

​@@dec2567No, not even that, MK sells by its name alone. Lots of people buy the game just because it's a classic, something to have in your library, especially in consoles. Most drop the game soon after too, harder than other fighting games

[@dec2567]

@@lucastonoli3256 yeah they do drop the game and come back when new content comes. Mkx sold 12 million and mk11 sold 15,but people still play the games you can find matches on mkx,mk11 and even injustice 2. Just because isn't not on street fighter and tekken level doesn't mean people still don't play. With the logic games like kof and other anime are failures because street fighter and tekken has more players,but the fgc doesn't want to have that conversation.

[@lucastonoli3256]

@@dec2567 People play every game, including 30 years+ obscure shit no one even played all that much when it was released. You don't know the difference between having the possibility of finding a match online and having an active community. I guess you don't play fighting games much

[@kilochampion787]

I think it’s mainly because MK has a large casual appeal. Mostly due to guest character hype. There are some other reasons such as checking out the latest finishers, but a lot of my friends really only know or care about MK just because of the guest characters (they don’t play fighting games).

[@soudle-noup]

The worst part for me about MK is that 70% of skins is locked behind microtransactie

[@Joeofthedragon]

Sounds like Street Fighter 6

[@Diu1999]

@@Joeofthedragon and Tekken 8

[@IC2I]

This is a lie. Not to mention mk is the only game thats actually giving free skins.

[@Diu1999]

@@IC2Imonthly as well

[@soudle-noup]

@@IC2I thats why i sad 70%, yes they give free skins in invasion and ranked but most skins you need to buy with microtransaction and its not like tekken where you buy a skin for all male or female characters (except for legacy skins). MK you need to buy skins for each character speretly

[@i3ssb00st5]

but can mk1 outlive both sf6 and tekken 8?

[@tmerchead1]

Fighting games in general don't have a long life cycle.

[@theperians]

@@tmerchead1Tekken 7 did

[@dovs96]

​@tmerchead1 not true, tekken and sf do.

[@mazukai6525]

@@tmerchead1 I agree there's only so much you can play before peopel start getting bored, whether or not its people being tilted or acheiving their goal

[@lucastonoli3256]

​@@tmerchead1That's exactly the opposite of reality. SF4, Tekken 7, SF5. All had long lifecycles

[@MrTekhnical]

And the sky is blue. News at 11

[@Timothy___]

Haha

[@tabben82]

Wonder how much MK would sell if they remove the gore, because lets be honest most people only know MK because of the fatalities

[@windandfireproductions5358]

that's the only reason people play it

[@Nonlifting_breezy]

I like the characters honestly. I love brutalities but fatalities I never care to do them

[@dec2567]

That's not why mk sells. It's alot of games with gore that don't sell. None mk fans just don't understand mk. 😂😂

[@tmerchead1]

Yeah I also wonder if Street Fighter would sell without the world warriors an supers ,I wonder if Smash would sell without Mario characters. 😂

[@tryingtochangemyways5074]

Nobody paying 80 bucks just to do fatalities..I know it sounds crazy but people really like mk..It's familiar it's easy it has the best guest characters..And that's what casuals like..Example both Sf and tekken has some sort of modern control easy mode ability for new players to feel like they know how to play the game..Mk is so easy they dont have a system like that because they don't need it..

[@travelerwatanabe]

I recently got MK1 on summer sale on steam. I primarily play Tekken 8 and already owned Street Fighter 6. So, it could include people late to MK1 like me.

[@GLJ2414]

I enjoy MK1 as a casual player. The FGC doesn’t matter. Sales is the biggest driver for a niche genre of gaming. Salute to the MK1 team for making a fun game!

[@blackmanta2527]

McDonald's sells the most burgers . Still doesn't mean it's the best burgers around 😂

[@akilcharles3473]

True but people still go and eat them, it's no Chef Boyardee of fine cuisine but it's still a good burger to eat.

[@chucklos391]

I think I might get McDonalds today in honor of MK.

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

But nobody is upset with a McDonald's burger.

[@retroman3960]

I'll take a smaller fast food joint over a bigger one like McDonald's anyday.

[@sayedomairsiam6344]

Tbh Bragging about how much mk sells means nothing cuz only the company benifits and rhe thousands if competetors or hardcores are crying 34/7 on twitter. Atleast Tekken even with its smaller audience satisfies both casual and hardcores and people benefit too unlike mk which only the casuals and company benefits

[@aabb-oc5yg]

TBH that is debatable some pros and casuals don't like tekken 8 still i guess we have to wait a year and see people opinions about it

[@Nonlifting_breezy]

If the game don’t sell the next one don’t get made.

[@lucastonoli3256]

​@@aabb-oc5ygno product can be liked by everyone. Past the first shock, T8 perception among pros is actually really good overall now.

[@Ghostkilla773]

Mortal Kombat has marketing.

[@armorking2832]

That's not a surprise. MK has always been very popular among casual players, they always prefer play it rather than SF, KOF or TK.

[@georgealvarez1195]

McDonalds outsells every single Michelin starred restaurant IN THE WORLD COMBINED.

[@tmerchead1]

The cope and salt in this comment section is delicious.

[@chucklos391]

It is hilarious. Sensitive. Bottom MK the game is outselling everyone and that’s that.

[@Holyjermaine]

@@chucklos391tbh the amount of a game selling good doesn’t have to do with anything with us. I’m a Mk fan but tekken and street fighter game last way longer than Mk

[@chucklos391]

@@Holyjermaine I don’t even know what the debate is. MK outsells and too bad for the fans of the other games. People are gonna enjoy the game they like. Whether casual or hardcore. Happy for MK. It’s an American company making a fighting game and I’m happy they can sell.

[@Holyjermaine]

@@chucklos391 like I said that doesn’t benefit us at all but cool statement I guess👍🏼.

[@Hunt9-qb1if]

Just like the salt from Mortal Kombat fans that got all the way to the bottom of evil? Mortal Kombat is trash and it doesn’t even have the high ratings that a street fighter has your garbage and its universally understood as garbage McDonald’s sells the most food. Does that make it the best? Shut the fuck up.

[@WFROSE]

The inconvenient truth; the casuals are what carry the fighting game's success, the fans and competitors just advertise it.

[@neoconnor4395]

"But EVO..." as important as tournament numbers are, you can't really make the argument a game is "dead" when it's clearly whooping your butt in every other human metric used to measure success... MK1 is pretty cool.

[@ΚρανίΩ]

its dead because mk's while budget relies on people buying the game, playing it once or twice, then dropping it. they don't have anything of value or any community for that matter its smaller than the melty blood community, and i don't think you've ever heard of that name if you like mk

[@neoconnor4395]

@@ΚρανίΩ People hated MVC when it first hit the scene as well. I think, as disappointing as steam numbers for active players is - the real headline should read: "People are trying to kill MK1" rather than "MK1 is deeeeaaaad..." Because again, it's doing better than it's competition. You're just regurgitating FGC vitriol.

[@likehere3485]

Man tekken players are so elitist it gets tiring

[@chucklos391]

Starting to get tired of the Tekken community. Aris said that the worst thing about Tekken 8 is Tekken fans. I believe it.

[@hyperreal]

Are you a moron kombat fan?

[@traezaX1]

We are Elitist... because TEKKEN takes alot of time to learn ...and it's extremely difficult...so sometimes there may be pride involved ... But all in all it's a beautiful game to learn ... I don't listen to fans I just play the game ..

[@everythingfightinggames993]

Mortal Kombat is a bad fighting game but makes sales. Which means it doesnt need to be a real fighting game to sell good. Seeing fatalities as a kid is the most amazing thing ever. It caters kids and casual to pro fighting gamers. While tekken and sf is more likely to adults. Which why Mk sales way higher. Imo.

[@DOOMslayer32020]

What do you mean "a real fighting game"?

[@coreyharris6998]

Evidently it’s not a bad fighting game if it outsells all the others every time (people are literally putting their HARD EARN MONEY TO BUY THE GAME, so Sales do play a huge factor in fighting games so yeah sit the hell down)

[@beegdawg]

@@coreyharris6998 , so just because Virtua Fighter and DoA are outsold by every other mainstream fighting game, that means both games gotta be trash or what..?

[@coreyharris6998]

@@beegdawg Well for those cases it means those games are underrated (I love DOA, DOA 5 and 4 are the best imo) but tbh Most pro players don’t take those games seriously and not to mention some of them are bad (VF is boring that’s why they had to come to doa 5… I’m Jp) but yeah ilfor this case it’s because it’s underrated. Let’s say Tekken 8 was the best selling out of sf6 and mk1 (mk1 being in last) everyone would say Mk1 is Grabage and that Tekken 8 is a great game that’s why it has a lot of sells (am I wrong…. No!)

[@dec2567]

The fgc side doesn't understand you guys are niche and mk doesn't need you it will sell regardless. Mk is bigger than the fgc and most fighting games. The fgc is nice but 99% of us don't really care, that's why nrs are announced year2 at comic con and not evo. You can't measure mk success with fgc standards.

[@tmerchead1]

FGC doesn't know what they want.

[@lucastonoli3256]

The success of a product doesn't determine the enjoyment of the consumers of said products. Sales is not an important metric to the players.

[@dec2567]

@@lucastonoli3256 tell that to soul calibur players great game,but it didn't sell good enough and now it's dead. Sell are very important game doesn't sell you want get another one for 10 years maybe.

[@lucastonoli3256]

@@dec2567 Yeah, no, the comparison isn't relevant here. Games like Melty Blood sold less than half as many copies as Soul Calibur 6, but the community is still incredibly active, in fact, it overtook MK1 in player entrants for Evo this year. We are talking about a game that only moved 400k units in 6 months. Again, you are forever wrong, just yapping without even looking at any stats or knowing anything about the genre.

[@dec2567]

@@lucastonoli3256 I'm not wrong you hate for mk is just blinding you. You can't measure mk success on your fgc standards because we don't care about it. That's what you elites don't get. You guys are niche and people who play mk casually don't care about you or evo.🤣🤣

[@thatblindtekkenwarrior1177]

I'm gonna throw this out here right now. Nobody that is part of the FGC, and played T7 from release until T8 came out. Has stopped playing T8 because of "the controversies". The numbers are a lot lower now than they were at release, but that's not because people left due to controversies. That's just the normal life cycle of a fighting game like this. Casual buy the game, they play for a month or two, and then they leave. That's who is left. Everybody else that is still here are all hard-core players and the controversy really means nothing to them. Even the balance has maddening as it may be, wasn't enough to drive people away.

[@Puangbro]

So, street fighter have 30k peak(just on steam) hardcore player's event after a year. Controversy can make the players number going down pretty quick . Sf6 mainten 20 peak players (steam) in a year, than after akuma realese , it's up to 30k

[@thatblindtekkenwarrior1177]

@@Puangbro so what does that that to do with Tekken? You want to give me real numbers and statistics. Here you go here's the research you can do. Check T7 numbers for the first year of release, then check the numbers for the second year of release, then check the numbers for the third year of release . Have a look to see what the ratio of sales for T7 and concurrent numbers for the years that them sales numbers were in. Then in three years time, do the exact same thing with T8. And how much do you want a bet? The numbers track? I mean there will be variance with the amount of units sold and the ratio of hard-core players. But I would imagine the lines going to stay pretty much the same and the controversy will change none of it. No, that's very scientific and there's not a lot you can do until three years time to prove me wrong. So let's go with something that is still bit more ambiguous. How many top players have given up playing the game who were also top players during T7 and then how many of them did that because of the "controversies". And how many of them did that just because they didn't like the T8 plays differently from T7. Show me one single top Tekken player that left because of the controversies. Also being banned because you're cheating is not leaving because of a controversy. So low, Tia God does not count.

[@shanegalloway9149]

It’s because Tekken’s Marketing team sucks ass. Also it’s because MK has a HUGE fanbase. If T8 had a Marketing team that actually gave a fuck, the sales might be alittle better. Don’t even get me started on the lack of customization options in T8. Overall, MK sells better due to the large amount of people that play the game

[@lucastonoli3256]

Less people play the game, and T8 customization is the best out there right now. You're yapping, through and through

[@professoremil]

⁠@@lucastonoli3256 Dude, your counter argument is the equivalent of “nuh-uh” lol. Please share with us a detailed explanation of your thoughts, I’d genuinely like to know.

[@lucastonoli3256]

@@professoremil people buy MK1, people don't play MK1 for longer than a month or two. Go look at active players. There is nothing to explain, exercise that brain, the message is clear.

[@pixytorres7117]

​@@professoremil Nobody needs to make an explanation, go look at the customization of Tekken 8 and Story. If you have played fighting games you know which games have which. But you are a casual if you think Mortal Kombat customization is better.

[@JoeGodHand]

Tekken 8’s marketing has been pretty good, character reveal trailers up until release done very strategically, strategic reveals of dlc characters, story trailers cut together decently well, making appearances at most major games expos, releasing an anime, merchandising, Tekken talk updates, staying a constant part of the fighting game conversation. Comparatively MK1’s marketing was kinda trash. Those vague teases leading up before the actual first reveal trailer with basically no gameplay outside of a fatality that looked better than it did in game. Beyond that, there was nothing interesting. People were just excited because it was a new mortal kombat just like the only reason street fighter players messed with street fighter V is because it was a new street fighter. Street fighter 6 and Tekken 8 actually delivered hype that got attention from a fresh audience as well as the core fanbase and the games are good enough people stick with it.

[@lexivalentine1913]

Isn't MK on sell in the PS store? WB always having discounts that's what makes them special.

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

Some people say that MK1 going on sail so much as some kinda of a "see, they're doing so bad they lower the price 4 times!"

[@coreyatherley8903]

We’ve seen this time and time again. It doesn’t matter what the FGC thinks, if the customer likes what they are playing, they’ll buy it regardless. We’ve seen this with MK11 and SBU.

[@robd1859]

It doesn't surprise me. Because in the 80s we had Mario and Zelda and a lot of baby kid games but we didn't have games for grown people and then in 1992 when Mortal Kombat first came out it changed everything. We had already been playing Street Fighter 2 but then Mortal Kombat came out and it was the first time in a game where you can actually kill your character and there was blood and mutilation in the game. It changed everything. And that's what put them on the map. Gore will sell a game. That's why Mortal Kombat did so well that's why GTA III did so well. But GTA 6 needs to grow up. And put Dead Island 2 level of blood and gore in the game. I love blood guts and mutilation I love horror movies and action movies with a lot of killing and blood and guts. I don't like baby kid games I don't like baby kid movies I like games and movies for grown folks. Because think about it in the 80s we were very rebellious growing up. we liked music that had a lot of cussing. We looked really bloody violent movies in the 80s like the director's cut of the original RoboCop from 1987 rated R. Not some PG-13 baby kid movie from 2014. I'm talking about the original RoboCop. And also we loved violence and movies and violence and video games and we were very rebellious and we prayed the day that someone would start creating video games with violence and blood and gore. And lo and behold Midway captured our dreams.

[@RichiePajooh-r8i]

you can’t even buy mortal kombat in japan, south korea, china etc and it still outsells

[@coreyharris6998]

Was really looking for this comment, thanks for letting this be known, so anyways that would means everyone who hates it has to at least give mk its credit for that

[@chucklos391]

Very true!

[@echo8168]

Mk buys there own games out this only imo but when i try get on for a game it take awhile to even get a match. Take point that this didn't really happen when i was playing MK X but mk11 it took awhile and mk1 is getting there

[@coreyharris6998]

@@echo8168 Mk is buying their own game sis BS, also mk1 is getting even better and when Takeda comes out it’ll bring the hype until Friday when they announce the Year 2 goodies🥰🥰

[@echo8168]

@@coreyharris6998 can't call it BS if you don't even know lol and nah as long as it's run off kameo's the game will never be saved. At least the casual fan base will be looking foward to it.

[@retroman3252]

" MK outsold em all " -they said " And... so what? " - Warner Money Man

[@MasterOssy]

You can sell as many copies as much as you want. If the participation rate is low, then it doesn't matter.

[@mekman4]

Mortal Kombat being the best selling fighting franchise is amazing considering it’s banned in an entire country, and has been for the last 20 years or so. I think the secret is that woman play Mortal Kombat. I find more females players gravitating to Mortal Kombat to the point that even I know a woman that plays Mortal Kombat. I mentioned Street Fighter to her 5 years ago and it gave her “the ick.” Capcom and other’s limit their audience when they objectify women in their games. That’s not the stance of the FGC, but those weebs don’t shower anyway, so….

[@EtherealSoul861]

that is so Sad. considering Mk 1 is an inferior game to both Tekken 8 and SF 6 .. MK is in general very hollow and basic compared to Tekken ..i say even niche games like Bloody roar and Dead or alive had more depth on their gameplay than Mk ever did

[@i3ssb00st5]

mk as a series always outsells but dies the fastest out of the three

[@Concealed.Revealed]

​@@EtherealSoul861 Inferior in the "competitive fighting game" sense, but in the "casual audience sales" sense ‐ MK1 is superior. I think they shifted their focus.

[@EtherealSoul861]

@@Concealed.Revealed nope.. inferior on the gameplay depth and gameplay mechanics is what i meant..

[@shadowofthenorthstar989]

yea honestly MK is pretty mid compared to alot of other fighting games gameplay wise , the only reason it stands its because of its gore but even that's not as cool as it used to be

[@tmerchead1]

Cope.

[@hyperreal]

MK hasn’t been good after X. But it draws in the average cod type gamers

[@tomvhresvelg9286]

But MK1 has lower metascore than even Granblue versus. Lower metascore even than genshin!!

[@benshadbolt1465]

Marketing is only part of selling the product. When Harrada was first trying to sell the product (market) to the social media. He unfortunately didn't sell it well. The heat mechanics wasn't explained well enough to gamers/me anyway. The whole heat mechanics is confusing so I don't play that way when I play with the CPU. It's easier and gives me no migraines. Just plain old T6 controls/well sort of.

[@freigeist2688]

No surprise - NRS is very good in making great fighting games, their story mode, the combos and especially the design and animation is simply the best we have in fighting games. Each MK character evoleves with the next game and is always a better version of former games. Just look at Takeda f.ex., or Reptile and Ermac.

[@Shadowdragon_TV]

SF and Tekken are mainstays for fighting game lovers. Mortal Kombat is loved by everyone for the gore. Have to remember, it was the first big-name fighting game to push that line.

[@purplepineapple7893]

It is a hyper casuals game. Its not taken as seriously and ppl are attracted to shenanigans. The core of its fighting isn’t very complex or smart… anyone can jump in and goof around. Is a goof around game.

[@Kyonvtuber]

Mk is always gonna sell, that's no doubt. The biggest problem with the game is that it's not finished. People aren't just clowning on it for no reason. Their so many issues with the game, and for a series like mk1, they got to do better because this is unacceptable.

[@coreyharris6998]

I just wanna come and say that I told everyone so….. Remeber when everyone was like this game is trash and it’s unplayable, it had a rough year, the EVO NUMBERS!!! Now we back like we never left, GGs to the other games

[@scottlaflame9857]

I have a homework assignment for you. Get on google and type in “How many people are playing MK1”. Do the same for SF and Tekken and come back to the comment section. MK is like Drake, he started off so good with his music but sucks now is only selling records because of his name. You are lying to yourself if u say this game is good and thats coming from a day 1 fan.

[@jakoballfather224]

Reasons why MK always outsells street fighter tekken and guilty gear 1: characters are pop culture icons 2: simple and easy to learn combos 3: mainstream movie characters as guests 4: no cutesy anime girls 5: movies and television spin offs 6: presentable to non fighting game players 7: has never been a console exclusive

[@emmanuelmartindale8309]

Mk looks good plays good I don't know what ppl complain about really

[@justinpat2]

its woke garbage all the females are intentionally ugly and flat chested and the gameplay looks garbage too, looks like they're fighting on the moon with low gravity

[@lucastonoli3256]

Plays like utter ass

[@AH-sx4ku]

Outperform in sales but mk1 does not outperform mk11 or mkx in gameplay

[@ownup440]

Outselling but it ain’t out performing. Street fighter will always be the best. It paved the way for all fighting games hell it even paved the way for this video.

[@pian-0g445]

Not surprising as it easily has the biggest casual audience. But man, even for casuals this game just isn’t as good. Less content than before and what’s there isn’t as fun (invasion). And weirdly enough, for a casual centric series, it adds in a mandatory mechanic that most casuals do not like (assists/team fighter mechanics). If they had the gameplay changes for 1, with the content of 11 and X, I think it would be an incredibly fun game competitively or not.

[@louisfacade]

This is not a good thing, though, because MK13 gonna feel it. MK1 is causing people to drop the franchise after they play it. Most people feel robbed. The game sucks.

[@resonmon]

Yeah but there is no source on actual MK sales numbers. And it's only specific region. Tekken 7 outsold MK1 in long run and it will happen again. Very poor sample size

[@YangMr520]

The three giants of future fighting games are Street Fighter, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat

[@flyingfrogofdeath9616]

Someone check Ed Boons bank balance!

[@sagekoh3158]

There's always a boom of new players every time a bonkers guest is introduced. They stick around for a month and dip. Pads the numbers

[@thetrasharoundmyplastic6342]

Let's call it what it is Mortal Kombat is still a taboo because of the violence most kids are not into fighting games because of complexity of it while teens to adults will gravitate to the game and the violence. And to be honest say what you will about Mortal Kombat the story has always been better since nine.

[@thatblindtekkenwarrior1177]

You really need to watch a video that Maximillian did about Harada speaking about Soul calibre. In that video, Harada explains how the Tekken team are known as the rogue team in Namco. You should watch that video, because you might have some understanding about how close we are to not even having Tekken. And without Harada, and without these micro transactions, we would not have T8. Harada has fought back against management for years, the only reason they're in the game right now is because he can't fight back against them anymore. The company wants a profitable game that brings in money. If it's not it will be cancelled and there will be no T9. Watch the video and then give your opinion.

[@CervantesPR1]

Moonsault you can do classic controls man...thats like pressing L1 in tekken.

[@adercader1]

Mortal Kombat has one thing the other games don’t and that is… a distinct identity. And its identity is a pop culture phenomenon despite the ass gameplay. Tekken reached those heights with Tekken 3 but that swiftly died after Tekken 5 because Tekken became… a bit meh, bad even maybe. Street Fighter is also an iconic phenomenon but SF5 stained its streak, because unlike the other games, SF lives and dies by its gameplay and now SF6 as great as it is bares the burden of cleaning up said stain on the legacy.

[@flavioalbatrozz2557]

Mortal kombat is the fast and furious of fighting games. That's why it's sells. 😂

[@florianneumann9441]

I never really enjoyed or invested much time into mk (or 2d fighters in general) - but mk did bring some god innovation to the genre… like the goofy and stupid storymode (that’s a compliment) always down for a playthrough of that sexy trash. There wouldn’t be a t8 story mode of this quality without it - even though I have loved it to be a tekken force mode (with them figuring out how to probably adapt the control scheme for it)…

[@edisonaraujo3474]

AWESOME , SPECTACULAR, AMAZING, IMPRESSIVE, SHOCKING!!!impressive

[@akilcharles3473]

Actions speak louder than words and with everyone mouth wording shiz about MK1, the numbers don't lie when it comes to sales. Also these developers know each other, you don't think the likes of Harada, Ed Boo & the SF developers/producer don't converse behind close doors when discussing about each others game on what works & doesn't!? Same goes for other every major game developers.

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

Oh, is Harada the Tekken developer? I've been trying to figure out who that is sense 6Arakin said it was Harada's fault that he got banned from MK1.

[@barrytooth4306]

I had the most fun with mortal kombat 1 so I like it the most

[@ZuuLuuYT]

Mortal Kombat 1 is the only one of the 3 games to be available on Nintendo Switch

[@chantevlogs384]

I feel like the company be buying they’re own game sometimes this game has such a bad rep 😂

[@sylvesterphoenix007]

MK will always sell well no matter what

[@RootofYishay]

Violence Sells ! 😁

[@sadoss]

mortal kombat is popular with casuals.. what a shocker

[@kiddalmatiangawd8389]

Damn, I remember seeing hell divers on Twitter and people were complaining. I didn’t look into it but what happened???

[@2vizion2]

With mods i say like this if you are a established artist that make good work would u try as hard if your project sells less cuz people pirite ur piece if work and draws over parts they think u should have every time would u work as hard on it ? When if jack and dexter had mods u wouldt have played it back then

[@ametozukumazu6073]

First of all, poor Ed. Dude finally cornered you, to fall for the oldest trick in the book "wake up drive impact into full screen combo". Ok, now for the point. With Takeda breakdown. I'm slightly positive with how they're going support the game. Majority of sells are from casual players are they're not gonna shake game's active player numbers. Skins and MTXs are the momentary inconviniences and as stats. shows will not affect casual players. What they are focusing on right now(what I thought after Takeda) is variety in gameplay for the actual players that are gonna open the game more than once per month. It's not solid guaranteed, they can f this up if Takeda stays privileged or spoken buffs are the only major changes and the game stays the same.

[@TheReayning]

Deep discount sales. WB Games is notorious for this to improve their sales numbers.

[@unseenninja83]

It’s not surprising at all. The casuals fanbase out weighs the competetive and more veteran fanbase by a massive amount. Smash bros is the biggest to prove that. Casual fanbase like MK cause it has the history and more recognizable IP.

[@13WARMACHINE]

mortal kombat is always in on sale so of course its going to sell

[@tricksalot2]

I mean tekken 8 is no no better shape i remember y'all were making fun of mk1 now tekken 8 is taking it hard now

[@stuckwchuck]

All these backhanded comments about MK like they didn't do the work to gain the acclaim that they have. Yes, they fell from grace. Yes, they also earned their numbers.

[@retroman3960]

Doesn't make the game objectively better than SF6 or T8, though.

[@douglaspelin9062]

I got Mortal Combat and Tekken for ps5:) but I’m yet to play em. Weirdly I got em on crazy 50-60% discount physical copies in store(Finland/Helsinki) I’m not even sure why or how lol. As in why they would put a discount on new games. Btw anyone knows of Guilty Gear is good ? Or if it has any recognition in fan circles ? I played GG on PS1 when I was a kid. I have very good memories of it :)

[@florianmotao3165]

Hey bro NRS is an American company so they are kings of Marketing. With Dave Bautista add they hype a lot of people. I remember being offended by Shang Tsung in pre-order and Invasion mode. But peoples (fans or not) were so hyped. Blind by add, by graphics... So ashamed by this early release... This game is still empty of content except skins.... Waiting for the 26th July and all of the genderswap.

[@TvBoxHead]

Weebz in the comments are so mad. Crazy how people dlk ride and make excuses for japan everytime they lose at something. The only reason people dont like MK is because it isnt japanese period even if youre in the fgc.

[@user-py3re5jw6g]

I will always love mortal Kombat ❤

[@Peter-the-Angry]

It is because mortal kombat has a very large casual base. That is all

[@politelical540]

It's outsells for sure but the community was dead asf, no one play mk because most of people who buy the game just play something else a weeks after release, the current state of mk is quick cash grab by dev because they know casual are pretty dumb asf

[@doootheytho9821]

I’m guessing a lot of ppl that are in the comments didn’t your video all the way through or just don’t care because it seems like they will not not stop defending this predatory, lazy cash grab behavior

[@Shibu_PL]

MK1 is a good game. Not every fighting game needs to be as deep and complicated as Tekken.

[@chucklos391]

Ahhhh yes. Very good point.

[@BLN_Snake]

its not fun at all

[@Shibu_PL]

@@BLN_Snake speak for yourself maybe

[@FieryAnubis]

MK is just the proof that quality =/= sales. The franchise has been total garbage since and including MK11. Absolute trash. It keeps selling because of people's weird obsession. Same way phone games and gacha keeps making bank and it's super trash. That's kind of it.

[@smartcurry]

I think it’s wrong to compare what a mostly single player game like Elden ring to that of a fighting game mainly because there’s not tournaments with large cash prices, there’s not servers they gotta make sure constantly stable with rollback netcode so players can play against each other all around the world that stuff alone cost millions, then there’s the original production/budget for making the game which most likely cost close to a 100 million now or half way there at least for mk,sf, tekken it does then there’s the cost of dlc n licensing especially guest characters those are made expensive, new stages, patches etc cuz lots of people are working on this stuff a lot of it is expensive everyone gots to get paid so ofc they gonna pump skins out thats the quickest thing to make to help cover costs of all this shit we could not like it but that’s the trade off to get things we want Elden ring doesn’t do half the stuff a fighting does or even live service games that supposed to last a long time has to do they just drop a massive insanely hard game that takes hrs to complete don’t actually gotta worry bout balance n stuff consistently and just can focus on the next feature or dlc

[@lizarnot7831]

Let’s gooo mk1 my favorite game I play is doing good

[@justinpat2]

Gross woke garbage outselling amazing games literally because of the franchise title alone, makes me sick

[@GLJ2414]

Or casuals enjoy the game

[@eddD14]

lol so sf 6 isn’t woke?

[@coreyharris6998]

@@eddD14that’s what I’m saying

[@coreyharris6998]

How is it gross woke garbage because you suck at the game

[@ΚρανίΩ]

@@eddD14still 10000 times better than mk

[@Rhyds86]

The casual buyers are drawn in for the gore etc.

[@1l_vfx]

They always outsell em. But there outselling on mk1 just to die first

[@GhengisGoon]

Because all the casuals buy it, but drop it after a few weeks multiple Mk creators have spoken about this issue.

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

Not according to the people who play KL.

[@GhengisGoon]

@@Lance.Gardenhire That's a very small percentage of people.

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

@@GhengisGoon There was 130,000 people that played KL this season. There has never been less than 100,000. Again, that is just KL. That doesn't count the people that just play casual or KOTH.

[@GhengisGoon]

@Lance.Gardenhire There is currently 1,900 playing MK on steam compared to Tekken with 6,000 players and street fighter with 12,000 right now. Not many people are playing it.

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

@@GhengisGoon I didn't say anything about steam. Steam doesn't count everyone. It only counts PC which is the smallest amount of people that play the game. Looking at the leaderbored is a much better way to tell how well it is doing. There has never been a season where less than 100,000 people played in kombat league.

[@benshadbolt1465]

The only reason TEKKEN 8 is doing so badly is because everyone and their dog want their character to be in the DLC list. If you want a DLC character own shares in Bandi/Namco then you may have a chance of having your character in TEKKEN 8. This is all about business. The more the person has profit in the company (Bandi/Namco) the more say you have in products/games. Don't like it. Don't buy rhe game, just stop whining about why did Anna or Michelle Chang got left out of the TEKKEN 8 roster.

[@issacadrian7774]

It’s really not surprising mk is the cod of fighting games it could the most shit but will sell like crazy nothing bc the community is brain dead

[@AjayiVictor-lh9rn]

Will you hater stop saying trash about mk1. To me it's better than tekken 8 and sf6. Tekken 7 and 8 have no difference. While sf6 is like mkx

[@deadnameisdead]

Its the same Argument like OH LOOK CALL OF GREEDY OUTSELLS *INSERT FPS GAME* BUT WHY DO PEOPLE BUY IT Look HOW MUCH SUBS TMM HAS COMPARED TO MOON BUT WHY Same Argument other topic

[@414Mufasa]

Always does always will, they just have way better characters than both franchises and for some reason SF6 is hell bent on not giving any lore, not using SF3 characters, and bringing back the same characters to give them the same moves over and over and over like Ryu doing Shin Shoryuken yet again for a lvl 3, your favorite character in MK one game might have a sword, next game he's a two sword user, the next he's using only a sickle and spear that's variety, one game you'll be able to run, one game you'll have deadly krushing blow counters, one game you'll have assists all in one franchise thats variety now you might not like every one of these changes but millions and million of other people will and the MK games they end up not liking you might end up loving now even with all this said I play T8 more than all of them I think its the best this gen, SF6 and MK1 are both braindead nonsense mashfest games even T8 a little bit is more casual than previous entries I'm glad SF3 and MVC collection is making a comeback so these youngins can play something actually technical

[@DaPhenomAce]

It always does.

[@solartistninja]

Heihachi in mk1 Scorpion in tekken 8 please

[@windandfireproductions5358]

kasual audience the people who tend to talk bad about mk are usually well versed in fighting games people who don't care about fighting games and just like gore shock value play MK