>not releasing sales figures
>careful not to say "fast selling" or "biggest selling"
>main nrs fanboy forum (testyourmight) brimming with hate for the game.
>hasty discounts of nearly 40% to try and boost sales.
Hexplain.
>not releasing sales figures
>careful not to say "fast selling" or "biggest selling"
>main nrs fanboy forum (testyourmight) brimming with hate for the game.
>hasty discounts of nearly 40% to try and boost sales.
Hexplain.
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it was the 30% off on cdkeys before it was launched
"launch" is now marketing for "shipped to stores". There's so many shelves warmer this year I wouldn't be surprise Wallmart and the like drops selling games soon. Shit is reaching Star wars female toys level of unsellable plastic.
Did someone say HEX
Marketing departments these days are really good with the numbers. Basically first you sell your game for 100% to people who fell for marketing campaign/hype and die hard fans.
And as the time goes on and saturation of market goes up, you keep lowering the price with ever so increasing "BEST DEALD" "LOWEST PRICE NOW" labels to catch people who were not decided to buy it yet.
Also shops hate having full warehouses of trash, so they will be the first to sell it for 5€ while digital copies costs 0 to store because they take no space.
Lowering prices are just marketing, not neccesarily sign of failure.
>Lowering prices are just marketing, not neccesarily sign of failure
for 3 weeks old game? Cmon now
>greymarket reseller discount means game is tanking
so, are you excited about starting middle school after summer break?
>they give away the plastic at loss, it's NOT failure!
this shit happens before games even come out, idiot.
Few articles online (from like 2010 era) told me that ~80% of all sales of popular AAA games happens in the first two weeks and after that you have mostly scraps.
Also dont forget its heavily multiplayer game. They need the players to have opponents to play against if they ever hope to sell DLCs.
I expect them to make free weekend mortal combat on steam before summer.
It's being outsold pretty consistently in Europe by Days Gone. Is that the case in the US as well?
After MKX i was hesitating about if i should get back into MK11(i skipped Injustice 2) or get into SFV.
I get into SFV, no regrets.
It got destroyed by a mediocre PS4 zombie game kek
sjw or not, she cute as fuck
I got the game for the same price from that site a little bit before launch.
none of those games are even near close to the budget of MK11
what is this screenshot has to do with anything?
>free weekend before summoer
no way that's happening.
Game sold like shit so the devs have to lie to themselves hoping the media picks it up and reports on it saying its suddenly the best selling game.
The game sold like dogshit. thanks to its shitty SJW practices of making women cover up to be "more mature" but keep men all shirtless etc. Shitty gacha lootbox mechanics in the krypt and the shitty PC port.
The only people praising this are mentally ill trannies.
You yourself said that shops hate having full warehouses of trash. So if you need to drop the price just to clear the trash out of your warehouse so fast, then it is indeed a sign of failure.
>saying SJW unironically
Her face at least looks passable compared to MK9 and MK11. Too bad in the meantimer NRS decided to go full SJW and made both clothes and body worse.
Overall she isn't that bad, but disappointing for sure.
SJW aside, game itself is literally fucking dumbed down garbage. Did anyone watched yesterday Summit of Time tournament?
Its literally takes around 20 minutes to play FT5 set. It's boring to play, it's boring to watch tournaments. Game is gonna die after 1 EVO.
It’s Mortal Kombat. It didn’t sell like shit. You’re delusional, and possibly retarded
*MK9 and MKX
(you) me when it's 10€
kys sjw faggot
Same, that doesn't get me brownie point from inbred culture warriors so i'm gonna pretend that cdkeys didn't have this before
It's Mortal Kombat, but with series fatigue starting to kick in for many people after the glorious comeback that was MK9, people disappointed with shit practices like mtx out of the ass, retarded tower difficulty that took weeks to patch, retarded double standard when it comes to costumes and body types that only hardcore SJWs fail to see as double standards, etc.
The game has lots of issues, and while I'm sure it sold a decent amount, I'm also fairly sure it sold considerably worse than MK10 and MK9. The fact that they refuse to share sales detals kinda strengthens this suspicion.
mk x also sold less than 9. But even then,mk 11's peak numbers are higher than mkx on steam
Nah. If physical copies werent cheaper than digital, nobody would ever bother with retail. Thats why they are always cheaper.
Its a disaster when the physical copies end up as fallout 76 where they give it to you bundled with literally everything
variety.com
Pic related. This is how disaster looks like
>inb4 that one old school boomer gamer with hur dur physical copy is the best
You are minority. People hate going to shop, picking game, replying they wont want exclusive ID and then driving home when they can simply hit button buy & download from their sofa.
>>main nrs fanboy forum (testyourmight) brimming with hate for the game.
is it really? I haven't been there in years
>SFV
>Not Tekken 7
Oof
B-BURKABROS.................
MK11 has much higher budget than MKX, it's pretty clear
It's amazing how fast this game died.
Are these dumbasses breaking even at least?
Bros, I'm tired of people not getting woke...
>you sell less when you don't appeal to your main audience
For me, it's more about not having to change the disc every time I want to play something.
Sometimes it's just a heavy deciding factor for me whether I start playing a game if I can start playing it by pressing play, or I have to change the disc first. I have become that lazy, and I'm somewhat sure there are a lot of people like me.
get woke go broke
>Lowering prices are just marketing, not neccesarily sign of failure.
I wonder why Nintendo is still selling MK8 5 years later at 40$
TYM is fucking retarded though desu.
I dont know what their problem is right now but its probably something dumb.
Funny enough MKXI was one of the games that did not have any greenmangaming deals before launch.
This is still literally the best selling game in the franchise. so far launching exclusively in first and a respectable second around the world, and being the fastest launch in history. You guys will never be the target demographic again. kill yourselves.
On what do this post or OP's post base their claim that it's the best selling or worst selling game?
It seems to me that a bunch of kids yelling at each other in kindergarten assuring that their daddy was stronger.
PC master race doesnt have this problem. You buy 20TB worth of HDD and then you keep all vidia installed forever :-)
Nintendo cant into modern marketing. Maybe their CEOs are too old or too japanese, who knows. They would probably make millions in two days of work just by slapping some "remaster" of old mario title and then releasing continuation of that game exclusive to the their console. Maybe it would even make few zoomers discover nintendo game series and or consider getting switch.
At this rate nintendo is doing whatever it can to fade to obscurity. I think their average customer is 35 years old buying their stuff purely for nostalgia reasons. Once this generation will stop buying games, nintendo will sell itself to EA or chinks and then dissapear forever.
>fastest launch
What does that even mean? It has the most sales? It reached the previous games' sales number in less time? Or what?
>PC master race doesnt have this problem. You buy 20TB worth of HDD and then you keep all vidia installed forever :-)
I know, not sure what gave you the idea that I didn't know. I'm an idort.
get woke
go broke
>This is still literally the best selling game in the franchise
it launched with pc and switch
Based idort. What games do you actually play on and on which consoles?
it reached the stores really fucking fast
Nintendo games stay at full price because they still sell at that price. MK8 is a two-year old port of a Wii U game and still sells.
It would have sold 50x more if it would have been EGS exclusive.
>chinkoid/nigger toon overload
>previously non-chinkoid toons turned chink
>no tits
>get woke
recipe for disaster because as we all know braindead trannies, niggers, and chinkoids dont actually play games
>3D fightan
yikers
kek
Mostly exclusives on PS4 Pro and Switch, also exclusives on Vita and 3DS. I also play multiplats on console that I know has fucked PC port like Ys8 comes to mind.
Also fighting games have generally larger userbase on PS4 so I mainly play those there, but I usually double-dip and get the PC version too.
This is kind of sad to watch. Not mortal kombat it did fine. The level of seething and coping it's caused is what's really sad. how does it live in your head rent free?
That post goes off of the publishers declaring the game a success two days after launch. usgamer.net
And the game topping the sales charts at 1 and 2 around the world.
OPs post is mortal kombat living in his head rent free so when WBi refuses to release their financial earnings earlythey go and find random discounts and as a show of the brain capacity of someone who thinks "go woke go broke" is a thing says "look look the PC version is 40% off on this niche website so it must have secretly failed.
doing way better than previous games were at this moment
So? Since when did going broke mean make money?
Do you have any linked source with actual numbers?
gamesindustry.biz
Other game companies sell 6 million units for 60$ and then they lower the price to 40$ and sell another 6 millions units. This is how you do successful marketing. While nintendo keeps releasing overpriced consoles with little to no games on them...
WHAT is better? The sales? The active players? The time it needs to get from warehouse to store? Why use vague words instead of blatant "BEST SALES OUT OF ITS FRANCHISE" or something?
Do you? I'm not the one who claimed that only 30-year old men are buying Nintendo consoles and games. I don't think they'd charge $60 if nobody was buying them.
These are from media create
[NSW] Yoshi’s Crafted World (Nintendo, 03/29/19) – 53,327 (New)
[PS4] Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software, 03/22/19) – 44,733 (202,281)
[NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (Nintendo, 12/07/18) – 19,802 (2,993,955)
[NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo, 01/11/19) – 17,106 (551,473)
[PS4] Winning Post 9 (Koei Tecmo, 03/28/19) – 13,280 (New)
[NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 12,664 (2,203,456)
[NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Bundle Version Included) (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 10,431 (660,392)
[PS4] Super Robot Wars T (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 03/21/19) – 10,360 (98,453)
[NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! (Bundle Editions Included) (Nintendo, 11/16/18) – 10,006 (1,556,950)
[NSW] Super Mario Party (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 9,765 (1,074,272)
[NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 8,727 (2,979,450)
[PS4] Devil May Cry 5 (Capcom, 03/08/19) – 8,686 (173,389)
[PS4] The Division 2 (Limited Edition Included) (Ubisoft, 03/15/19) – 8,175 (87,178)
[NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 7,921 (1,342,331)
[NSW] Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy! (Square Enix, 03/21/19) – 7,117 (35,626)
[NSW] Super Robot Wars T (Limited Edition Included) (Bandai Namco, 03/21/19) – 5,968 (50,019)
[NSW] Winning Post 9 (Koei Tecmo, 03/28/19) – 5,583 (New)
[PS4] Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy! (Square Enix, 03/21/19) – 4,989 (26,030)
[PS4] Kingdom Hearts III (Limited Edition Included) (Square Enix, 01/25/19) – 4,668 (more than 795,473)
[PS4] Call of Cthulhu (Oizumi Amuzio, 03/28/19) – 4,371 (New)
>release shitty dlc riddled SJW fantasy simulators
>BUY THE GAME YOU BIGOT NAZIS
go woke, go broke.
vg247.com
>13.81 million total units sold
And thats with barely any sales and no price cuts.
Nintendo understands the value of their games. they keep selling through the whole generation. Its absolutely possible that MK8 will sell twice as much by the time the Switch generation is over.
and also, you mark down crap that's not selling. that's another "Marketing department" trick...
Mk11 gameplay is on point as is netcode. Much ado about nothing.
>You guys will never be the target demographic again
and heres why that's not good (for them)...
>mario cart, one of the least effort games sells millions
Not bad.
Is the PC version fucked or something? I got told they autoblock the word "PC" on streams etc
I refunded my mk11 on steam, I really tried to like it but couldnt get into it
Yep, look how cheap anthem and fallout 76 were right after launch. Same with metal gear survive.
>drop game to $5
>BEST SELLING GAME IN THE SERIES!!!!
at launch the PC version was behind for weeks, didnt even get the day1 patch.
so warnerbros and NRS went into full damage control mode and started blocking the word PC on their streams to prevent people from asking for their fix.
they also removed any mention of the PC version from their twitter in the middle of the shitstorm. they got exposed thanks to the internet archive though.
>sales*
*shipped
FUYCKIGN HURRY UP AND CRACK T YOU RUSKIIIIS
Just look at steam reviews or forums. There are couple of legitimate reasons why some people are angry.
Pic related and user reviews are the main reason why so many publishers are scared of steam. Also ability to refund game scared besheda so much they released their dumpster fire 76 on irs own shop where refund option is conveniently missing.
Sadly this seems to be the go-to tactics of NRS when it comes to dealing with issues related to PC. Just ban the discussion, don't communicate anything, and hope it just blows over.
Same thing they are doing about the fan patch that unlocks the krypt, fatalities, fatal blows, etc. to 60fps. It basically proves that it would be very simple to enable it, yet threads are being deleted about it and NRS refuse to say anything.
Thats fucked, glad I really don't like MK otherwise I'd have bought it just because I light fighting games MAAB on pc WHEN
Yeah, this is why reviews on Epic will be opt in by the dev, fuck that store
People buy physical copies because they actually want to own the game. You don't own your digital copy, the company you bought it from lets you borrow it from them and can take it away from you at any point they wish.
>retail stores discount it on launch day because they overstocked it and it didnt sell enough
another TRIPLE A trying to go woke to gain positive reviews from fake left wing journalists for their microtransaction filled scam game and everyone rose up against it
based
I dont usually replay games i already played. Most games have its value in 1~3 first playthroughts, then you get the true ending and move on.
Once the doomsday scenario you talk about happens i will just pirate the copies i bought guilt free.
Well I play fighting games on a pretty proper level so not knowing if they will support the game kills interest for me.
I'm really glad that I did not preorder it, especially considering how kikey they are with preorder characters.
>The sales?
yes the sales you dolt, do publishers make profit from literally anything else? this isn't being vague it's expecting you to have a brain.
>mario cart
>least effort
>constantly pushing forwards with new features to the genre
>arbitrarily decided that 16 tracks wasn't enough and that there should instead be 32 tracks in a game
>free dlc
>least effort games
You did the right call. You probably know this, but it's always safe to bet on the console version when it comes to fighting games especially if you play on a proper level, the PC version will always be an afterthought. The only notable exception I can think of may be Tekken 7 but I don't play that game so not sure how true it is.
I see you still haven't answered the real question but instead resorting to ad hominem.
There are many good PC ports of fighting games.
Tekken, SC6, SF6 all came out day one and are just fine. All of them are way better on PC than on consoles.
Anime games often come out later but they still end up being as good or better than their console counterparts.
NRS is just shit.
>everyone
speak for yourself
I didn't feel it at all. I literally started the game once and keep telling myself I'll go back to it. Same happened with MKX so I'm not sure why I bought this. Maybe I'm poisoned by nostalgia, but starting up MK9 and seeing that fucking incredible roster filled me with joy. Now there are a ton of literal whos and zombies.
Which is ironic because NRS probably has multiple times the budget to develop their games than any of those you mentioned.
t. sony shill
PC fighting games are the best version in almost every case except from shit tier devs like NRS who are trying to scam people
theres literally no reason to "safe bet" when you can instantly read reviews before you buy it
yes but its all rushed garbage because of arbitrary deadlines.
I remember that the MKX port team only had three weeks to port the game, which resulted in straight garbage.
I'm not sure what you mean, both MK11 and MKX did well by keeping most of the core roster from the original trilogy, and they did a good job in creating new characters that fit in much better than their very weak PS2 era additions.
Muslim Trannybat 11: Ramadan Kufir Haram Edition
Imagine being so mentally ill and schizophrenic, you start pandering to muslims and prude trannies
It should have had Cyrax, Smoke, and Reptile at the minimum.
I played this at a bros house over the weekend and as much as I don't actually hate it, I can't justify buying a game I know is going to rerelease in a year with the added DLC.
Cart racers are simple user. And the fact they are reseling the basically same game for 10th time and nintendo fans still buy it in millions simply amazes me. Nothing more nothing less.
If they didnt even add new tracks i would laught. Dont praise them for bare minimum.
the question was
>WHAT is better?
The answer is "yes the sales (you dolt)"
the other question was
>Why use vague words instead of blatant "BEST SALES OUT OF ITS FRANCHISE" or something?
the answer to that was "this isn't being vague it's expecting you to have a brain." saying something had the best launch is rarely measured by " The time it needs to get from warehouse to store"
So not only are you a dolt but you're illiterate. you deserve the ad hominem.
Yes they are missing and it sucks, I would add Mileena to the list as well.
But it's a far cry from the actual literal who fest, that were the PS2 games. We have it a lot lot better now.
>m-m-muh graven image not sufficiently naked!!!111!! must be muslim!
imagine being so mentally ill and schizophrenic you start pandering to /pol/
Save hex.
Same with physical copies you dork. It's a license.
>yes the sales
WHERE'S THE NUMBER YOU FUCKING IDIOT
>Haddad didn't share specific sales figures but went on to say that Mortal Kombat 11 has the largest launch in Warner Bros
>gaming on a HDD
yuck
Have sex