{"id":284415,"date":"2024-07-03T16:11:31","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T14:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=335352"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:15:29","slug":"why-has-mortal-kombat-fallen-behind-compared-to-other-competitive-fighting-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/why-has-mortal-kombat-fallen-behind-compared-to-other-competitive-fighting-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Why has ‘Mortal Kombat’ fallen behind other competitive fighting games?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘Mortal Kombat’ was born in 1992 with the intention of competing with ‘Street Fighter II’. Its developers knew that trying to make a normal fighting game wouldn’t get them anywhere and that Midway would end up kicking ’em out. After much thought, they came to the conclusion that they had to differentiate themselves in some way. So they didn’t set any rules, simply creating an imaginative and brutal game where anything was allowed. Thirty-two years have passed and both sagas are still alive… But one, definitely, more than the other.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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All you have to do is look at the number of players registered to compete in the game at EVO, the largest fighting-game tournament in the world. And while ‘Street Fighter 6’ will have a macro-tournament of 5,265 people and ‘Tekken 8’ will have 4,646, ‘Mortal Kombat 1’ will have to settle… for 645 aspirants.<\/strong> In fact, this number is surpassed by games like ‘Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike’. That must hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the pain doesn’t come only from the professional scene: On Steam, only half as many people are playing Mortal Kombat 1 as ‘Mortal Kombat 11’<\/strong>, the previous game in the series, and everything seems to suggest that after less than a year, this new creation by NetherRealm and Warner is already doomed. But it’s not that simple, considering that the competitive variant of ‘Mortal Kombat’ has always been anecdotal. It’s a banned game in Japan, and most players of the series prefer consoles over PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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