https://www.oneangrygamer.net/2019/05/mortal-kombat-11-sold-1-8-million-digital-copies-in-april/84917/

"NetherRealm Studios and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment were proudly boasting about the launch of Mortal Kombat 11 being the best selling game during launch that both companies produced. Numbers are still scarce, but SuperData seemed to reveal how many digital units Mortal Kombat 11 moved during April.

VentureBeat is reporting that Mortal Kombat 11 moved 1.8 million digital units across PC, PS4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch. This is reportedly up from the 500,000 digital units that Mortal Kombat X moved back in 2015 during its launch.

According to the NPD Group the game topped the charts in April on home consoles both at retail and digitally, and the data tracking firm stated that Mortal Kombat 11 was 2019’s second best-selling game of the year behind Kingdom Hearts 3. However, the retail sales for the game in the U.K., were down 43.6% compared to Mortal Kombat X, so those across the pond may be trapped in a culture war at the moment but they at least seem to have more discerning tastes in withholding the wallet than their counterparts elsewhere.

We can sort of get an idea of how much Mortal Kombat 11 sold based on how many units Kingdom Hearts 3 moved. According to VGR Square Enix’s JRPG sold over 5 million copies, which means that Mortal Kombat 11 moved less than 5 million units. We also know that out of those 1.8 million digital units, less than 200,000 of those were from PC, according to Steam Spy. So we can surmise that 1.6 million of those dfigital units are at least attributed to PS4 and Xbox One.

We know that the game moved more units than The Division 2, which is the third best-selling game of the year, but that game failed to meet Ubisoft’s internal sales expectations, as reported by Forbes.

So that likely means that Mortal Kombat 11‘s could be anywhere between 3 and 4 million units sold. It’s still not quite up to Mortal Kombat X’s total sales, and a lot of that will depend on whether or not it can maintain any sort of sales momentum during the month of May leading into June where some highly anticipated games like Super Mario Maker 2 are expected to drop.

Given a lot of controversy surrounding Mortal Kombat 11’s propaganda and the grind, we’ll see if positive or negative word of mouth is what will be the deciding sales factor for May once the NPD numbers become available in June."

So with 3-4 million it is a more than 60% downfall compared to MKX's 11 million. Way to go WB...

I'm impressed with how long this thread has survived.

It's a shame this bullshit had to cause trouble for such a decent fighting game.

Look, I am part of the 1% of people who strongly believe that mkx is the best MK game ever made (excluding guests), and is a gazillion time better than 11.

But comparing the sales of the ENTIRE mkx life span across three platforms counting both digital and retail sales with a game released 2 months and half ago on 4 platforms with a lot of controversies and technical problems on Switch isn't fair at all.

Mk11 is the best selling game of 2019 and Ed Boon already celebrated it on Twitter. Also DLCs barely begun to be released and a lot features like kombat league will be introduced and will lengthen the game's lifespan.

At the moment MK 11 sold 4 million copies retail, with no official data on Digital sales. The game is in line with the expectations.

An interesting data would be a sales comparison between X and 11 in their first three months.

This is a great post, but your accurate and reasonable response might as well be screaming into the wind with who you're responding to. Instead of time spans and the issues with the krypt/towers, that guy's convinced any and all negative sales figures are the sole result of the females not being naked enough. Apparently 5 randos on YouTube who have no life are more an authority on sales figures than journalists who do it for a living.

Yea I thought it was little strange too he shifted the blame due to the removal of the scantily-clad female garb.... until I remembered that, before we knew anything about the glitches, towers, krypt, we only knew about the changes to the females and removal of key characters like Mileena, Reptile, Rain, etc when the entire parrellel universe timeline justifies adding ALL the MK characters in.

Did you read the post of oneangrygamer.net at all? Around 4 million was the total sales so far, both retail and digital. These numbers are pitiful compared to MKX. Also, 70-80% of sales are usually happening in first 2-3 months. So, yes, the comparison is fair...

These sale numbers contain a clear message: "Get woke go broke!"

Point is, Mk11 is still the best selling game of 2019 and NRS is satisfied with sales.

Also mkx didn't sell 11 million copies in its first 3 months, it sold 5 million.

Oneangrygamer is an unreliable source.

Right now Mk11 sold one million less than X in the same time span. And personally, I believe it has nothing to do with the female warriors costumes. It has to do mainly with the controversies that rigged the game at launch (micro transactions, grinding, ToT excessive difficulty, etc) and the delayed switch launch.

Source?

Can you give a valid reason for that claim?

It is blatantly obvious that the main reason is the forced SJW propaganda and cultural marxism. Also the dumbed down (downgraded) fighting system (compared to MKX) didn't help either.

1) NRS official announcement

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/report-states-batman-arkham-knight-mortal-kombat-x-have-sold-5-million-copies-apiece/amp/

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2015/05/08/mortal-kombat-warner-bros

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/802908-mortal-kombat-x/72639584

https://m.ign.com/articles/2015/10/12/batman-arkham-knight-mortal-kombat-x-sell-5-million-each

https://www.kombat-pavilion.com/t/mkx/wsj-reports-mortal-kombat-x-sales-exceed-five-million/xPARAtrvp17Y

https://www.mortalkombatonline.com//t/mkx/mortal-kombat-x-tops-mid-2015-video-game-sales/0Qa4AtLq4A8e

Is it enough?

MK X sold better because it is undeniably the better game of the two.

But Mk11 loss of sales is not that critical and it's not due female warriors wearing less revealing costumes. That would be a stupid reason, honestly, and before you say something, I like the skimpy outfits from the MK 9 and earlier era and no, I am not a feminist nor a SJW or anything like that. I keep that shit on shitty sites like restera.

Just look what they did to Sindel, bustiness was her trademark, now that costume with that cleavage makes no sense...

Sindel then:

Sindel now:

Wow. Two posts in two different threads from you on Sindel's cleavage. At this point, you're either a troll or live a very sad, pathetic, miserable obsessive life focused around video game boobies. You were annoying before but now I just feel sorry for you. Go outside and meet some real people. Enjoy the summer weather.

It didn't, and the sales numbers aren't exactly accurate.

In fact, if MK11 has indeed sold 3-4 million copies by now, they're doing as well as MKX. MKX sold over 11 million copies over the course of its 4-year lifespan, not in 2 months.

You be dead for years and your penis will shrink too. Or even fall off.

Personal insults on anyone who is not shilling and at the same time calling him/her a troll? Brilliant, just brilliant...

I didn't know that modern fans have to be shills as well.

Did you seriously take my comment as an insult?? It was a joke lol. I thought that was obvious...

How the hell was bustiness her trademark whe she was flat chested in every game prior to MK9?

You're just a horndog that needs to get laid. Stop it.

Get your facts straight, bub!

Nope! But this definitely would:

ps:. or if we are talking about cosplay, then rather something like this:

Yeah, that Deception render is just a render. Her actual breasts in the game are small as hell.

Also, MK3 Sindel says hi.

Big breasts are not a trademark of hers, especially considering every female in MK9 had large breasts. Again, you're just a horndog that needs to get laid.

Honestly, the fact that you're this pressed over the breast size of a fictional character is pretty damn pathetic.

That deception render is just a higher polygon count render of her lower polygon model ingame. Less polygons ingame but the proportions are the same because it is the same 3d model, just subdivided. But why I'm even trying to explain when you obviously have zero knowledge about computer graphics...?

Also she appeared 3 times so far (except MK11). Her first appearance was in MK3/UMK3/MKT/MKAdvance (one game, one design). Her second design was in MKD/MKUnchained/MKArmageddon. And her third design was in MK9. From those three designs in the last two she was busty.

Oh, I almost forgot, she was an npc in MKX and guess what, there she was also busty.

So in her last four designs out of five she was busty. Now take these facts kid and move on! Also stop repeating this "horndog" nonsense because you are talking to someone who has wife and kids and I was on this forum probably before you were even born...

Having a wife and kids does not refute one's capacity for being a horndog. Hell, being one often leads to divorce (not saying you will so don't start).

Again, you making this big of a fuss over a character's breast size is pathetic. If you're an adult, act like it. Only a horny teenager who never gets any would whine this much about a fictional character's tits, so grow up and show some bloody maturity.

And for the record, I'm almost 30.

If you think it's pathetic it's your opinion. But Mortal Kombat was known for Action-Gore, Funny, Ridiculous and Sexiness if you are a fan of Mortal Kombat then you should've know. So it's not wrong for people who's want sexiness back in the game.

I'm making a big fuss for totally different reasons than those which you are so desperately trying to portray.

My main problem is (and I'm not alone with it) that WB decided to go in a hardcore shilling mode for the feminism and cultural marxism. And this redesign of Sindel just further proves it.

I wonder If you are an MK fan or a WB shill...