Regardless of its blended reception and promoting lower than Mortal Kombat 11 and Mortal Kombat X, the newest entry within the long-running preventing sequence from NetherRealm continues 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 soar up from the 5 million Boon beforehand reported in January. This in all probability comes right down to the Definitive Version that was launched and the way steadily 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 just 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 additional 3 months, Mortal Kombat 1 continues to be far, far behind its predecessor.
However regardless of this shortfall in gross sales, Mortal Kombat 11 continues to be the best-selling preventing recreation of the previous few years.
| Title | Launch Date | Gross sales (Aug 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Mortal Kombat 1 | Sep 19, 2023 | 6.2 million |
| Avenue Fighter 6 | Jun 2, 2023 | 5 million |
| Tekken 8 | Jan 26, 2024 | 3 million |
| Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero | Oct 11, 2024 | 5 million |
There’s a probability 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 supplied 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 neighborhood on a couple of issues. Most notably, he needed suggestions on how NetherRealm dealt with the DLC, asking if folks most popular having the 12 additional fighters divvied up in two massive packs of 6, or Mortal Kombat 11‘s methodology of doing 6, then 3 after which one other 3.
