Well, was working from 3PM till past midnight...
SapientWolf said:
Street Fighter 2 alone outsold every MK game combined.
First sentence (the one you bolded) was refering to the overall mindset
of the current games (
lolol MK sucks, I'm not going to buy it because is for casuals and it only sells to casuals hahahaha). Obviously SFII outsold it, back then..yet SFIII wasn't a big seller (it didn't helped that it was released only on the Dreamcast back then. On that system Soulcalibur and Dead or Alive II outsold Street Fighter III and Mortal Kombat Gold).
Dali said:
Maybe... Maybe... in the U.S., but total worldwide sales? I'd like to see some numbers as I'm pretty sure for all intents and purposes, MK doesn't even exist in Japan.
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Only million+ games were listed and I'm not sure how accurate this is, but I think this at least calls into question your "never had any problems outselling them" claim.
The problem with that list is that it combines US sales, with worldwide sales (Dark Resurrection, DOA4 numbers are worldwide..at least that was what Namco and Tecmo announced back then)..plus that list includes the number of when that game was included into the list...for many of the "old" games, the numbers were never updated. Not to mention, Mortal Kombat "may not exist" in Japan (though it was distributed by Koei)..but it still sells extremely well across Europe.
In the case of (the recent) Mortal Kombat games (worldwide):
Deadly Alliance: 5.5 million
-PS2 (US): 2.0 million
-XBX (US): 1.5 million
-GCN (US): 0.5 million
-GBA (US): 0.3 million
-Multi (Etc.): 1.2 million
Deception: 3.7 million
-PS2 (US): 1.5 million
-XBX (US): 0.9 million
-GCN (US): 0.3 million
-Multi (Etc.): 1.0 million
Shaolin Monks: 1.9 million
-PS2 (US): 0.6 million
-XBX (US): 0.3 million
-Multi (Etc.): 1.0 million
Armageddon: 2.7 million
-PS2 (US): 1.1 million
-XBX (US): 0.5 million
-Wii (US): 0.2 million
-Multi (Etc.): 1.0 million
No link though, since it's from an old '.pdf file' ..updated a few numbers based on numbers from various MK sites though.
Plus my "never had any problems outselling them claim"..was more directed to the whole idea around here that "because Soulcalibur, Virtua Fighter, Street Fighter are the "better" games..they sell a lot, and that because MK sucks, it probably is a bomb..and noone knows why they continue making sequels of it."...
Some seem to forget that the "Godsend" that many consider Virtua Fighter 5 around here, was greatly ignored by even the "hardcore" gamers...and that was across 2 platforms....
Again, I'm not saying that "sales >> quality", all I'm saying is that some seem to ignore that Mortal Kombat is still a relatively big seller inside the "fighting genre" (and outside it too as Shaolin Monks and even Mythologies show..Special Forces, bombed though..) and that there's a reason as to why they continue making games based on it..not to mention that the whole claim that "people buy it for the violence and blood has been denied, when around 50% of the online matches for both Deception and Armageddon were played with blood, fatalities and death traps turned off...
When in general people usually buy MK games because of the characters (Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Liu Kang, etc..)..heck, many bought Shaolin Monks just because of the Inferno Scorpion boss..