MK is an interesting franchise because despite wanting to go on to new and better things consistently keeps aware of its fans and their input. I'm hoping that some of the extras in MKD will repay the hardcore fanatics.

These are by no means original ideas, but I think they may be worthy of a consideration.

1. An incintive, like in the Madden Football games, where certain unlockables can only be accessed if there is a record of prior EA games on the memory card. I wouldn't go that extreme, but if there is a MKDA profile on memory, perhaps some alternate costumes from MKDA will become unlocked in MKD.

2. I'm really not sure about this one, which would be alot like Soul Calibur, when certain players were exclusive to certain platforms, but I own an XBox and PS2, and I'm likely to buy the game for both systems (preordered Xbox MKD already). Perhaps this can be done by adding two characters to the lineup--say Smoke and Kabal--and having one exclusive to each console. This'd be a good move for Midway and the respective consoles--MK freaks like me would either be disgusted or want to try both out, and they'll probably sell more games that way, at least marginally so--the respective consoles might sell a few more as well.

etc.
I'm wondering if it'll use the PS2 hardrive or the X Box's--or perhaps even have downloadable stages/characters/weapons/costumes.