Dude, the word Jap is offensive to some people...and I think they might make them, but I'm not sure (for Asian countires)

The game would sell very little over there because the fighting is below standard for Japanese gamers.
At least that's the impression I get.
But who knows....

He didn't say "Jap", he said "Jap."
Abbreviation my friend, Read before trying to go off topic.
On Topic.
Why they would make that? English is world wide. I think they would loose more money by doing it since there's a lot of Japenese Fighting games.

Yep it wouldn't sell well there. Japanese gamers want depth in their fighting games and MK has always been considered a joke game. It's not nearly as popular outside the US as in the US.

MK is popular ALL OVER THE WORLD ...
EUROPE , AUSTRALIA , AMERICA (north n south) and JAPAN i guess u didnt saw "JAP" versions of the MK games ever , i did.
Thats why im wondering why theydont make JAP versions of the game animore.
And the word JAP is for the Japaneese region games.Im not saing it cuz i wanna fuck with somebody ok ?

If it was popular in japan they would make it there. It's not so they don't. It's a fact deal with it. Mk has never been big in japan.

MK has never been big outside of USA, sure there's fans and all, but MK isn't a mainstream game everywhere else as it is in USA, sales are more around a 10th in Europe and it might as well be non-Existant in Asia.
Japan for example, is the Hardcore gaming capital of the world, they don't have time for fatalities etc.

You have obviously very rarely been outside of the US.
I can assure you without any shadow of doubt that MK is pretty mainstream in Europe.

It's not just about MK. Most western games aren't popular in Japan. Crash Bandicoot was probably one of the most successful over there and even then, Sony had to modify the way Naughty Dog designed Crash to make him look more animé-ish. Some of the greatest games we have over here aren't well received. Look at Knights of the Old Republic. Probably one of the best RPGs available in a long time and yet, the Japanese prefer the archaic Dragon Quest. Have you ever looked at a top 10 sales list for Japan? Most of the time the numbers 2-10 will be relatively commonplace games. Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior (Quest), Mario, Zelda, etc. But usually the number 1 game will be some crackpot thing that westerners wouldn't touch. They can be identified by their super long titles that when translated sound completely ridiculous in English. Ultimate FUN!!!! Kappa Raising SUPREME!!!!....from Konami. So, yeah. MK may have the quality strike against it but even if the game was the greatest ever, the Japanese probably wouldn't play it.
It's kind of the reason why most of the big Japanese companies (Capcom, Sega, SquareEnix, etc.) are losing money while the Western companies (Rockstar, EA, Naughty Dog, etc.) are making money. The Japanese companies are remaining very stagnant so people, even in Japan, are realizing that they've been playing the same game for the last five plus years. Mario and Sonic, Final Fantasy, etc. haven't really made great leaps in a while. But the Japanese public won't buy American games either so what do you do? Make games like you always have and watch the numbers slowly dwindle? Or evolve and risk not selling any games at all?

It seems every time you see a post of mine you always have to nay-say it, chirping like an annoying little bird, and I have no idea who you are or what I did to offend you so much.
I don't know which countries you're talking about, but Tekken and Soul Calibur have been more popular in recent years, with Virtua Fighter for the Hardcore section, which leaves MK for your casual gamers. There's less of the latter than the rest who like the others.
As for your little personal comment that you directed at me, it would be a bit hard for me to be outside of the US rarely, seeing as I've never been inside it.
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Since others seem to have different opinions I have a question for everyone living in Europe or Asia...
How many copies of MK: Deception sold in your country during the first week, and how many sold for the big mainstream games like GTA San Andreas on the PS2 or Halo 2 on the X-Box?
I'll get the ball rolling:
UK - PS2
In their first week
GTA: San Andreas sold 1,116,057 copies,
FIFA 2005 sold 374,108
MK: Deception sold 4,272

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.....
Capcom vs. Midway
If anything, it could be a massive crossover success. Since Anime-style games cross better into USA, they could make it Capcom-style animation, and then the player could select whether they want to use Capcom system with supercombos, or Midway system with fatalities.

Japanese support japanese products. Thats how i see it anyway. none of the american games are big in japan. not even Halo or GTA.

Mortal Kombat is also not very famous in asia

The MK franchise isn't that big down here (England) games such as Tekken and Soul Calibur are alot bigger.

fact

I have nothing against you, I don't even know who you are. It's pure coincidence that I appear to reply to your posts more often than other people's.
What I did was disagree with your opinion that MK isn't mainstream in Europe, which it is. If you compare it to GTA, PES4 and FIFA 2005 it isn't mainstream anywhere in the world.

I never conisder MK a joke until UMK or TMK. I am America, and I was in South Korea for 3 years, visted, see the sites, Mom was in the army lol.
Well Mortal Kombat DA came out when I was in Korea, and did they sell it in Korea nope. If I ask I sure most of the Koreas have never heard of Mortal Kombat, They were big in Tekken, Street fighter, SNK. 3d Street fighter was a hit there, but no Mortal Kombat.
Got back to a America and had to buy a used MKDA to get it. preety cool game, but to bad it not great in Japan or Asian.
Other thing the classic Mortal Kombats dont follow Asian cultern. Ryu never had to fight a big 4 arm giant like Goro, He always fought other human.
Of couse a cross over would be great, just wondering I would never want to see Cage or Subbie as Amine, How could you pull off the cartoon, and the lived person(Assuming this is 2D) I mean you have to kill one or the other, hired some one to be Ryu or Ken.???

GTA and Halo arent popular in Japan because it is a country that likes fighting games (2D cartoon not digitized) and RPGs unlike us americans who like the fact of guns and rampage. and dont forget the hookers

Umm... no. If you want to get into a war about 2d fighting games, explain why Capcom Fighting Jam and NeoGeo Battle Colliseum are gettin such short development times, and little or no new content? Hell even Guilty Gear is recycling stuff; 2d is not big anymore even in Japan. I think the point youre trying to make is that they like really technical games like Tekken and Soul Calibur. MKD, while i like its style, has a really poor fighting engine at its core. I dont suppose Japs would go for that.

4,000 units in one week fails to support your claim that it's got a following regardless of what you compare it to. Mk has a small following outside the us and it's nonexistant in asian countries.

Capcom vs Midway?
lol don't insult capcom fans with that trash.

ok I lived in Japan for 2 years. While it's true that I never saw an MK game in the stores there, it's not true that they don't like western games. In fact, Japan has a major woody for most things American. There are American movies, games and CDs all over the malls there. Why we don't see MK is beyond my understanding. It's not that they expect more from their fighting games cause I've seen some pretty lame fighting games over there too.
One weird thing is, that even though they import american products, they still have their pride. For the most part, Japanese products will cost more than foreign products because of their "superiority". I thought that was kinda weird.
But yeah lots of American games and such in Japan. Might want to ask Midway why MK doesn't sell there.

I'm not one to make generalizations but I will here for simplicity. The thing with the whole Japanese having an American fetish is that it's extremely superficial. It's why there are so many instances of English writing that makes no sense. English is cool enough to write in but not cool enough to learn what the hell it is that's being written. It's not unlike seeing people here with tattoos of Japanese Kanji. For all those people know, it could mean "I am Lord Dragon of Planet Peanut Oil". The first two MKs were released in Japan but censored. All the blood was green and during a fatality the screen went black and white instead of dark. The whole western fetish doesn't last. People may play the first game thinking it's cool but by the sequel, who cares? That phase passed and it's time for the next cool thing. If you're going to like something based on nothing but superficiality then you won't like it for long.
There's a lot of half information coming out of Japan that makes things seem better but when coupled with the other half of info, the truth seems less glamourous. An example is that people in America hear that Japanese workers spend significantly more time in the office. Therefore, that means they must be better workers, right? Actually, no. The reason they spend so much time in the office is because they are far less productive, so in order to complete the amount of work an American does in 8 hours it takes them 10-12.
Games are not all that different. People hear that there are a lot more games being released in Japan and get the idea that it's unfortunate that none of these games come to America. Guess what? We get the cream of the crop over here. Even the garbage games that we get from Japan are better than the majority of the ones we don't get from there. They make more games but they also make more crap. That's why the Japanese video game market is sort of suffering right now. It's being saturated by garbage so people are afraid to buy anything but what they're absolutely certain will be good. Capcom will have to file for bankruptcy if they have another failure like Chaos Legion.

I acually discovered mk back in Kuwait. I also met a few mk fans there and I've met other people of different nationalites that also engjoy the game. But yeah, Japanese really dont like mk. But Mk is kinda popular outside the U.S.