Mortal Kombat 1 Outsells Competition, Despite Weaker Sales Than Previous Games – WGB

Regardless of its blended reception and promoting lower than Mortal Kombat 11 and Mortal Kombat X, the newest entry within the long-running combating sequence from NetherRealm remains to be beating the competitors into the bottom.

Ed Boon of NetherRealm confirmed on X a couple of days in the past that Mortal Kombat 1 has offered 6.2 million copies. That’s an affordable bounce up from the 5 million Boon beforehand reported in January. This in all probability comes all the way down to the Definitive Version that was launched and the way often Mortal Kombat 1 has been discounted.

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Lot of Mortal Kombat associated information not too long ago:

Let’s begin with MK1. With over 6.2 million video games offered, we’re nonetheless dedicated to refining MK1 to be our most balanced recreation. Take a look at this video for particulars on the stability patch we launched right this moment.https://t.co/LQhWBLWCgy

— Ed Boon (@noobde) August 8, 2025

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In comparison with the earlier Mortal Kombat video games, these gross sales numbers aren’t nice. In slightly below 2 years, Mortal Kombat 1 has achieved 6.2 million, whereas in simply over 2 years (27 months, to be actual), Mortal Kombat 11 had already offered 12 million copies. Even when we took away a beneficiant few million gross sales from MK11 for these further 3 months, Mortal Kombat 1 remains to be far, far behind its predecessor.

However regardless of this shortfall in gross sales, Mortal Kombat 11 remains to be the best-selling combating recreation of the previous few years.

There’s a likelihood Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero is prime of the chart, although, as a result of it offered 5 million in simply three months. Capcom has not offered any up to date gross sales numbers since then.

Whereas Boon was sharing the information that Mortal Kombat 1 wasn’t promoting too effectively, he additionally determined to ballot the group on a couple of issues. Most notably, he needed suggestions on how NetherRealm dealt with the DLC, asking if individuals most well-liked having the 12 further fighters divvied up in two massive packs of 6, or Mortal Kombat 11‘s technique of doing 6, then 3 after which one other 3.