MK1 top of sales, SF6 was dying to make list

[popsicle]

https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-20-best-selling-games-of-2023-in-the-us/2900-4951/

MK1 was the best selling fighting game easily. Another WB game was #1. So WB is a huge winner whether you like them or not.

SF6 barely even made the sales list despite selling 6 months ahead of MK1. So much for all that fake hype.

[Dinesh]

sales talk about better advertising ) not the quality of the game

online mk 11 and sf6 and sometimes t7 more than mk1 ) sad but true

[Bresker]

It is actually the first time i am not rooting for MK, MK11 also broke records and the result in MK1 was a rushed game with less content and a higher price tag.

[Cpt Obvious]

Sales is about inital grab, not retention, which mk is the worst at

[Kano]

MK11 was too much about KI. You could beat the game while watching the KI play. Also you could let the KI grind for you to open everything in the crypt. I really prefer the shrine over the crypt because the outcome is the same and it takes lesser time. I doubt that unlocking brutalities was real fun with MK11, but at least the 2nd fatality was shown after you entered it once. The kameo system in MK1 seems to be the new experiment after KI. Even if you don‘t really need em to win (against the PC) you could execute a different fatality at the end. Maybe MK2 gets real tag teams next time. XP grinding while playing just 1 level however is really boring (Season 1+3). The seasonal tower in Season 2 was more fun. If you compare other games that require XP to level up your characters like Killing Floor (2) there have been always events with double XP weekends. There you could use custom maps to level up faster. If you are a new MK1 player right now the needed time to level up characters is insane (and boring). So most likely new players prefer just to play online after the single player parts. And there it happens that you have to wait ages for a fight. Hopefully next month this is different.

[Troispoint]

MK always sold better than SF. If that means anything to you, you seem like a sucker.

[Mewsha]

SF6 and MK1 got the same amount and quality of advertising. Let's be serious.

However, MK1, especially in the west, has almost always dominated the sales chart. I don't know why anybody would ever deny that unless they're truly delusional.

What I will say is that SF6 didn't outsell Mk1, but it did outperform in terms of player retention. You'd have to be just as delusional to deny that.

This is still an overall L for us as players because WB is going to look at the fact that it outsold their main competitor, SF6, by a wide margin as well as landed in the top 10 and look at MK1 as a win when it's a failure in almost every way.

The bigwigs at WB are now going to implement this trash pricing and content model into all their games until it hits a game that can't be carried on name recognition alone, like Injustice 3. That means no meaningful changes in the near future, and certainly not for MK1's life cycle.

[popsicle]

Originally posted by Kano:

XP grinding while playing just 1 level however is really boring (Season 1+3).

NRS should get rid of the boring single player entirely. The top most played games with the highest retention rates are all online competitive games that just keep adding more and more contents.

counterstrike
dota
pubg
team fortress
apex legends
cod

[Shork]

Meanwhile I gotta charge back my key seller because this game turned out to be dog.
Like cool, 15h or so hours is what I got out of the MP, but that was torturing myself on very Hard (for the first 2 fights, then Hard for the rest) with virtually no fighting game experience.
That's not even half-way there to being worth what I paid for it.
Once the SP is done, there's no reason to play this anymore (not that it was good either). The online mode is completely broken.
In short:

1. Match: I get matched against a guy with like 459/460. Of course, I got destroyed. That was my first online match in MK1 ever. And I don't even really know half my attacks.
2. Match: Guy had like 46/45. I won both rounds with Omni-man.
3. Re-match: Game crashed (never did that in the SP)
4. Attempt to queue: Was loading for like 3 minutes, then disconnected.

Besides that, everything takes FOREVER to load. Just getting into a match often takes longer than the match itself. No matter how well this sold, it's a dog game regardless.
At least I am already having fun with GGST and hopefully soon Tekken 8.
But as far as online is concerned, for an absolute beginner, MK1 is a complete failure.

[popsicle]

Originally posted by People Are Dumb:

1. Match: I get matched against a guy with like 459/460. Of course, I got destroyed. That was my first online match in MK1 ever. And I don't even really know half my attacks.

So MK is the only fighting game on the market that pit a noob against a high level player. Interesting.

[🔥Astral Rage🔥]

This game is trash wait for the next game i guess

[SHREDDER]

Mortal kombat is the best fighting game and is more popular than street fighter. We like it more because of the violence and the blood and the aliens! Street fighter is good but mortal kombat is a lot better which is why it sells more!

[Troispoint]

Originally posted by SHREDDER:

Mortal kombat is the best fighting game and is more popular than street fighter. We like it more because of the violence and the blood and the aliens! Street fighter is good but mortal kombat is a lot better which is why it sells more!

If this is not pure herd mentality, then idk what is.

[H4NS]

SF6 iz ded lololo))0)0)))

[Shork]

Originally posted by Troispoint:

Originally posted by SHREDDER:

Mortal kombat is the best fighting game and is more popular than street fighter. We like it more because of the violence and the blood and the aliens! Street fighter is good but mortal kombat is a lot better which is why it sells more!

If this is not pure herd mentality, then idk what is.

I think that's just pure sarcasm. He doesn't own the game, but describes the reason 99% of the people even look at this game.

[Ghostvenger92]

Originally posted by popsicle:

https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-20-best-selling-games-of-2023-in-the-us/2900-4951/

MK1 was the best selling fighting game easily. Another WB game was #1. So WB is a huge winner whether you like them or not.

SF6 barely even made the sales list despite selling 6 months ahead of MK1. So much for all that fake hype.

sales dont matter if those buyers arent playing anymore