Mortal Kombat 1 Has Sold 3 Million Units

2024 has already had a number of major releases, and in that list, Tekken 8 has turned out to be among the most successful. The newest entry in Bandai Namco’s fighting franchise launched last month, instantly being met with widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike, and it’s seeing commercial success to match, to the extent that Bandai Namco says the game’s sales are “better than we’d hoped for at this point”, as shared by journalist Takashi Mochizuki on Twitter.

Sony has seen a string of explosive critical and commercial first-party hits over the course of the last decade or so, but not many of its games have managed to achieve the level of success that the Marvel’s Spider-Man series has enjoyed. On top of consistent critical acclaim, the series has also seen stellar sales on a consistent basis, and it has now hit another major milestone on that front.

In its latest quarterly fiscal report, alongside providing updated sales figures for PS5, Sony has also done the same for its last major flagship first-party release, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. As of December 31, a little over two month’s on from its launch on October 20, the acclaimed open world superhero title has sold 10 million units worldwide.

Capcom has updated its Platinum Titles page for various titles, providing updated sales numbers as of December 31st, 2023. Notable increases include Monster Hunter World, which sold 19.6 million units, up from the previously announced 19.1 million.

Despite some matchmaking issues at launch, Arrowhead Game Studios’ Helldivers 2 is performing well, with peak concurrent players on Steam hitting 155,926. The third-person shooter is also Steam’s top-selling game and PlayStation Studios’ most successful release on the storefront yet.

is officially headed to , with developer NetherRealm Studios confirming the release date for the highly anticipated DLC character.

The juggernauts that are Grand Theft Auto 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 just refuse to stop selling. The former is more than a decade old, while the latter launched nearly six years ago, but as is usually the case, both were, once again, big sellers for Rockstar Games and parent company Take-Two Interactive during 2023’s final quarter.

The best-selling game of 2023, Hogwarts Legacy, has sold over 24 million units to date. The news came from Variety, which also outlined the ambitious plan Warner Bros. Discovery has for growth in the gaming space. The company values Harry Potter (the IP behind Hogwarts Legacy), Mortal Kombat (which has sold three million units since its debut last September), DC, and Game of Thrones franchises $1 billion each for their gaming potential, and it plans to capitalize on them all.

It’s no secret that Hogwarts Legacy was a huge revenue earner for Warner Bros. last year after becoming the best-selling title in the United States and the UK. However, after it sold over 22 million copies in 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav recently told Variety that it crossed 24 million sales.

NetherRealm Studios reveals a new update for Mortal Kombat 1, bringing new fixes and a resolution to the recent desync issues online players have been experiencing. Following its launch last year, Mortal Kombat 1 has seen its fair share of post-launch content, both in terms of characters, outfits, seasonal updates, as well as patches. While fans have an idea of what to expect from Mortal Kombat 1 for most of 2024, NetherRealm Studios has a track record of pulling out surprises for its fans. With an expected long life for Mortal Kombat 1, there's clearly more in pipeline once Takeda finishes off the first Kombat Pack.

Despite being a gamer my entire life, I’m still relatively new to the fighting game genre. I put countless hours into Super Smash Bros. Melee and Soulcalibur II as a kid, but I’ve otherwise only played series like Street Fighter casually. That means that I’ve missed decades worth of storytelling from a genre that regularly cooks up the wildest soap opera dramas available in gaming.

Mortal Kombat has wrapped filming, and to mark the occasion Karl Urban shared a snap of himself on set. The Boys star plays Johnny Cage in the sequel, and we’ve only had a very brief tease of his character so far with this typically obnoxious picture.