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360/PS3 Versions of Mortal Kombat X Have Been Canceled
- Thread starter BiggNife
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RowdyReverb
Member
I'm not surprised. I wonder if other cross gen titles will follow suit. It seems like a lot of the most active consumers have migrated to current gen. EA and Ubisoft have already mostly abandoned last gen.
I think MGS V and RotTR will be their last hurrah aside from the major annualized multiplayer franchises.
I think MGS V and RotTR will be their last hurrah aside from the major annualized multiplayer franchises.
NRS only worked on the PS4 and XB1 versions, so I'm not sure how that applies at all.
As an Aussie i need all the players i can get playing the version i have. I don't have the luxury of living in a country with 320 million people surrounded by other countries with similar latency.
Doctor_Thomas
Member
I still can't believe they were put in charge of a port of ZoE.
The fact another developer had to come in and clean up the mess should have pretty much killed HVS right there.... but on and on they go.
I never found anything confirming QLOC took over. However, the folks on the Steam forums and the MKX Subreddit seem to largely be in agreement that the game runs pretty well now offline on PC (honestly difficult to gauge online at this point since so many probably gave up trying) so it's very possible they got a competent studio to come in and fix as much of the damage as they could. Cancelling HVS's port work on last gen versions could be WB's was of thinking "enough of our fan base has already moved on to newer hardware that we don't really need another bad PR hit from another shoddy port" and perhaps their way of permanently cutting ties with HVS.
He means that the game may have been better if it weren't designed with the PS360 in mind. From the moment the game entered development, there was an understanding that whatever was going into it had be possible on the PS360, too.
Wouldn't these ports have actually come out if that was the case, though? I mean, it is High Voltage, but I can't imagine them having trouble with a fighting game port unless NRS never considered last gen when they were doing their design, which seems to be what happened here.
NRS's position on this game was always "we are designing for next-gen, let the other team work out how to port it to PS360".
I thought I remembered them saying this. It's exactly what happened with Shadow of Mordor, although that had the misfortune of actually releasing on last gen hardware in all its horror.
It makes for nice PR, but WB wasn't going to greenlight one game only to have to essentially make another for the PS360. "Downporting" was always the intention.
Well, they did so for MK9/Injustice on Vita, but I guess they had Sony greasing the wheels in those instances. Even so, those versions show what NRS (and Armature) could achieve with lower specs, so I suspect the issue here was specific to HVS.
I have to admit, I had a bit of a "Wait, what?" moment when I read the title, too.
I wouldn't be surprised if the ports were cancelled due to a combination of data suggesting last-gen ports wouldn't sell enough for the investment to be considered worthwhile and WB cutting ties with HVS thanks to its history of failing to deliver.
People always say "next gen is a game you cant do on previous gen". Well so far, that's been proven out by every game if your not willing to take a hit of fidelity.
SebastianM
Member
Just as GAF said.
Damn you GAF.
Damn you GAF.
I think it would have done reasonably well if they'd managed to release it closer to launch, but once you've lost momentum it's hard to get it back. MK is huge in places like Brazil where a last-gen port would have been appreciated, I think.
BumblebeeCody
Member
Considering how bad the intros, x-rays and fatalities run, I would hare to think how they would in on 360/PS3.
They don't run badly though?
Elitist making himself look silly because those things drop to 30fps instead of the normal 60, I think.
Emperor Bohe
Member
Do it pls
A massive step up? Am I remembering MK9 wrongly?
Can you give me examples of what is impossible to do on last gen with MK10?
Seems like a prettier MK9.
The same. Depends on your definition of "badly".
In MK2011 and MKX, those were coded to run at 30fps; instead of the 60fps the rest of the game runs.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
Couldn't they have built X off of 9?
It sucks that they couldn't make it work right, but at least they aren't going to go out and launch two more broken versions of Mortal Kombat X!
(PC is fixed now but that was a rough launch)
TheSlySoul
Member
High Voltage port would have sucked, so money saved.
I'm pretty sure that isn't true Netherrealm were always developing it for next gen consoles in mind and the idea was the port it down to 360/PS3 afterwards.
It's a pretty large improvement from a visual standpoint. (click the images to enlarge them for detail)
I don't think anything in MKX would be impossible to do on PS360, but it would definitely be difficult. The amount of detail in the fatalities is leagues above any of MK9's.
And the biggest thing for a fighting game port (as I mentioned before) is that it needs to maintain a stable 60fps. I do think it's possible to downgrade MKX to the point where it could at least be playable on PS360, but I doubt HVS could maintain a stable framerate and I'm willing to guess that's the main reason it was canned.
Yes. Boon very plainly said in interviews that they weren't thinking about PS360 at all when developing MKX and that they would leave that to the porting team.