Mortal Kombat X Biggest Launch in Franchise History

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JRPGfan on 16 April 2015

Ruler said:

JRPGfan said:
Street fighter and Mortal combat are like the only big names when it comes to fighting games.
So ofc they sell alot.

(no im not counting Smash.... not a serious fighting game)

so you arent counting tekken?

:P okay Tekken is pretty big too.

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Best_selling_game_franchises

Tekken = around 41million

Street fighter = around 36million

Mortal Combat = around 33 million

as a franchise its sold alot.

Its just my bias, I grew up playing lots of mortal combat and street fighter (not really much tekken).

Not sure why I didnt include it.

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Ruler on 16 April 2015

JRPGfan said:

Ruler said:

so you arent counting tekken?

:P okay Tekken is pretty big too.

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Best_selling_game_franchises

Tekken = around 41million

Street fighter = around 36million

Mortal Combat = around 33 million

as a franchise its sold alot.

Its just my bias, I grew up playing lots of mortal combat and street fighter (not really much tekken).

Not sure why I didnt include it.

to be fair its 3D fighting game, the others are 2D :P

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JRPGfan on 16 April 2015

Now that you mentioned Tekken, the flood gates come open.
Killer instinct is pretty darn good too (not sure how good sales are, but its out now).

I played that on the Snes & N64.
Was probably my favorite fighting game s back then.

Wish the new game wasnt just Xbox 1.

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Jaywood2010 on 16 April 2015

JRPGfan said:

Killer instinct is pretty darn good too (not sure how good sales are, but its out now).

Millions of people has downloaded it and its been pretty much #1 on Xbox store since XBO launched, confirmed by Kenn Lobb.

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LipeJJ on 16 April 2015

Well, that's sad.

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Paatar on 16 April 2015

bananaking21 said:

JayWood2010 said:
Fighting games arent as dead as people think

Mortal Kombat is probably the only fighting franchise that will appeal to the more "casual" crowd. its easy to get into, hard to master, but fun to play either way. and its brutality and gore attracts the "dude bro" crowed, i mean how can it not? its fucking awesome. the last one was really good and brought back a lot of the players who used to play MK1/2/3 i expect this one to do the same.

it also helps that its one of the very few offline multiplayer games out there.

That description fits Super Smash Bros 4 perfectly...

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dukerx2 on 16 April 2015

JRPGfan said:

Now that you mentioned Tekken, the flood gates come open.
Killer instinct is pretty darn good too (not sure how good sales are, but its out now).

I played that on the Snes & N64.
Was probably my favorite fighting game s back then.

Wish the new game wasnt just Xbox 1.

Same here, loved those games. The new one Is the main reason Id get a Xbox One.

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ktay95 on 16 April 2015

LipeJJ said:
Well, that's sad.

Indeed =(

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Angelv577 on 16 April 2015

There is still room in the console market for established fighting games, for new IP is that I have my doubt.

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Cloudman on 16 April 2015

It`s good that the game sold well, but I hope that doesn`t encourage them to continue the microtransaction deals as well. That seems like a bad stain on an otherwise excellent game.