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Mortal Kombat Ships 1.8 Million, MK9 In Development

Some good news for Midway as its latest fighting game puts close to two million copies on shelves.

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Despite whatever business realities Midway seems to be going through these days, it sounds like the Mortal Kombat train is going to keep right on trucking. Midway announced this morning that 2008's Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has shipped 1.8 million copies into stores. That's a worldwide number that combines both the 360 and PS3 releases of the game.

Of course, that's an "into the channel" sort of number that reflects the number sent out to retail, as opposed to the number actually purchased. But the company offered up another number, claiming that as of January 13, over 3.6 million online matches have gone down on the PlayStation 3 alone. That's a lot of "get over heres."

But the exciting part of this press release comes in a quote from series co-creator, Ed Boon. Here, check it:

"Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was the result of countless hours of hard work by many people, and seeing the game surpass the million-seller plateau makes it worth all the effort," said Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat co-founder and creative director, Midway. "We're already hard at work on our next version of Mortal Kombat, and look forward to being able to reveal more details in the future."

There you have it, further confirmation that Mortal Kombat 9 is in the works. I was curious to know if the work being done on the next MK game meant that we wouldn't see any downloadable content for MKvDC. So I checked in with Midway, who quickly got back to me and said that we shouldn't take the above statement to mean that there won't be any DLC for the current game, and that details on said DLC are forthcoming.
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Despite whatever business realities Midway seems to be going through these days, it sounds like the Mortal Kombat train is going to keep right on trucking. Midway announced this morning that 2008's Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe has shipped 1.8 million copies into stores. That's a worldwide number that combines both the 360 and PS3 releases of the game.

Of course, that's an "into the channel" sort of number that reflects the number sent out to retail, as opposed to the number actually purchased. But the company offered up another number, claiming that as of January 13, over 3.6 million online matches have gone down on the PlayStation 3 alone. That's a lot of "get over heres."

But the exciting part of this press release comes in a quote from series co-creator, Ed Boon. Here, check it:

"Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was the result of countless hours of hard work by many people, and seeing the game surpass the million-seller plateau makes it worth all the effort," said Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat co-founder and creative director, Midway. "We're already hard at work on our next version of Mortal Kombat, and look forward to being able to reveal more details in the future."

There you have it, further confirmation that Mortal Kombat 9 is in the works. I was curious to know if the work being done on the next MK game meant that we wouldn't see any downloadable content for MKvDC. So I checked in with Midway, who quickly got back to me and said that we shouldn't take the above statement to mean that there won't be any DLC for the current game, and that details on said DLC are forthcoming.
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hopefully this helps out midway

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Awesome.  I still need to get MK vs. DC.

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Long live MK once and future Fighter Game!  Now if this forces or convinces another Marvel vs Capcom game in the style of SF 4 that would rock the casbar!

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Good for them, looking forward to a MK game without comic book characters.

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This is great news. I really enjoyed MK vs. DC, and am glad that they are working on DLC, as well as the next MK game. I was worried for a bit.

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I'm looking forward to a new MK game as well.

Personally, I hope they make a sequel to MK vs DC, one with more characters, more levels and goddamn fatalities that are actually fatal. "M" rating would be a must.

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Good news for MK and Midway...hopefully the momentum will keep them going. There one of the few main Chicago developers left...

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Good for Midwa- OHMYGOD, JEFF'S ERECTION JUST SMASHED THROUGH MY WINDOW.

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Well, here's to hoping the next MK can be as violent as they want to be and not another Versus game... well, unless it's MK Versus Hanna Barbara. That would be fucking awesome.

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Great news!  With all the noise surrounding Midway right now, it's good to know they're not afraid of starting some new projects.

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I definitely need to try

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Whoo! Good news for once!

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As soon as I get my act together and buy a new console, im gonna get MK v DC, so make that another sale for midway.  It really is the time for fighting games again  :D

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MK v DC is something on my list of games to get. I've got a lot to play, and not enough time to play them all to the extent I would like to. But this one is on the list and hopefully I can get to it soon.

Good news for Midway.. maybe this will help them survive a little longer. Well, as longs as those shipped numbers at least transfer into a decent number of sales.

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Kool, I'll get around buying MK Vs. DC when I purchase that badass Fighting Stick EX2. The D-pad on the 360 is complete weaksause.

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Awesome.

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So scorpion never takes its suit off?

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Captain_Fookup said:
"Kool, I'll get around buying MK Vs. DC when I purchase that badass Fighting Stick EX2. The D-pad on the 360 is complete weaksause."
Agree, it's a piece of shit.

Why couldn't they just make a functional D-Pad? Is that too much to ask, Microsoft?
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Surprised, still need to try out the game.

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Good to hear good news for Midway. I really want to get MK vs. DC, but I already have a lot of games to play. Maybe I will wait for a price drop.

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I'd almost given up on DLC, so this is some good news. :D

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I better drown to death in blood when playing Mk9.

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what kinda of dlc would hteir be for that type of game. how many more characters can you really add.

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good. now they can skip the Disney-rated Sesame Street no violence bullshit they had to do with DC and get back to blood and spines and brains bursting and intestines being pulled out of people's noses and anuses exploding and stuff with a straight up Mortal Kombat game.

i thought these fucks said they were quitting MK anyway after that one game where they had like 40 fighters in it. fuckin liars. how Jay-Z and Too Short of them.

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I love that game with a passion. I might be biased, as I just got a Green Lantern Tattoo this afternoon.

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damn, haven't played MK VS DC yet and unfortunately don't plan to.....but good news i guess?

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That sold a lot better than I thought it was going to. I expected about 500,000 copies or something. Not almost 2 million.

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That is very good news. I´m super glad to hear it. I was worried for a while.

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Great!

MK9, bring it!

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Excellent.

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Sweet,  I don't usually buy DLC,  but I will gladly pay for more MKvsDC

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I'm getting this!

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What i would want is a high definition version of Mortal Kombat trilogy, like what they did for SuperSFIITurboHDRemix.  It would be great to have high def digitized people fighting.  Never went to mortal kombat once they moved away from that.

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WOOT!  MORTAL KOMBAT 9!!!  I hope Kung Lao decides to show up this time...and Liu Kang dies in a horrible fire that doesn't allow him to EVER come back...not even as a fucking zombie.

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Good to see that MK seems to be making some sort of a comeback. Hopefully Midway hasn't been engaging in any "channel stuffing".

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They should focus on making a shadow hearts for the next gen.

Best RPG series on PS2.
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This is one of the first games on my list of games to buy this summer when I get my hands on a PS3, for sure. I love me some Mortal Kombat and I love me some DC Comics, so I think it's kind of a no brainer.

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great!!! they're still in business

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I am one of those 1.9 million....

MK vs. DC was an okay game, I liked it, but nothing Special.

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Good for them, although I have no intentions on buying the game (not the biggest fighting game fan) it's still great to see a struggling company get some success.

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So glad this game went well. Congrats to Midway.

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hope that they bring back the gore and keep the figthing engien

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I got this game through Gamefly  upon Jeff's recommendation and am glad I did. Good stuff. Now if I only had the time to put into it, I still have Fallout 3, Fable 2, GTA IV,  and Gears 2 I need to spend some time with. Well, my 200 and on going hours with Too Human isn't helping either. Look forward to the guys at Midway returning to form. I want spines and beating hearts!

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That's good for them. Good to see companies like these are becoming more successful.

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Thank god... glad this helped midway out a bit, I just hope MK9 doesn't take too long to make. Since Boon already said MK9 would be a return to form with a super hard pushed M, I really can't wait to see it.

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This is good news. I was really hoping it sold well.

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Great game. Kano is my bitch.