In keeping with NetherRealm artistic director Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat 1 gross sales have gone from round 3 million copies to over 5 million since its September 2023 launch, and the studio will “hold trucking ahead” with new “Kontent.”
“Seeing Mortal Kombat 1 nonetheless within the prime 15 most performed Ps 5 video games makes us very grateful to followers,” he continued. “Thanks for persevering with to assist our video games!” The gross sales marker affords trade watchers some sense of how the sport is performing for NetherRealm and mum or dad firm Warner Bros. Video games.
In current months, rumors claimed NetherRealm would wrap assist for Mortal Kombat 1 after its present Kontent Pack. Boon’s “trucking” assertion appears to partially pour water on that, although at time of writing, neither he or NetherRealm have totally stated what’s subsequent. The preventing sport simply obtained its eleventh DLC fighter, Conan the Barbarian, earlier this week, and NetherRealm launched the Khaos Reigns story enlargement final 12 months.
For some comparability, the studio’s assist for its prior video games has been fairly in depth, driving income for it and its writer: Mortal Kombat 11 had 12 DLC characters unfold throughout three Kontent Packs and a post-launch story marketing campaign when all was stated and carried out. Injustice 2 had no such enlargement, however had an identical 12 character, three-pack mannequin.
Shortly after Mortal Kombat 1’s launch in 2023, WB Discovery head David Zaslav praised it and Hogwarts Legacy’s gross sales. The 2 had been fairly profitable in comparison with the corporate’s 2024 output, which was primarily a cascading sequence of losses following the lackluster launch of Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
Throughout an earnings name final November, WBD made clear it wished to deal with 4 specific franchises for its sport ventures: Mortal Kombat, Recreation of Thrones, Harry Potter, and DC Comics. Nevertheless, that assertion got here months after NetherRealm minimize employees and shut down its cell spinoff, Mortal Kombat: Onslaught.
The corporate’s feedback point out that one other Mortal Kombat sport is probably going, helped by a brand new film primarily based on the sequence releasing this October. Nevertheless, it is at present unclear if NetherRealm will soar right into a sequel after this sport wraps, or return to its DC Comics-based Injustice sequence.
