After months of waiting for Mortal Kombat X to be ported to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Mortal Kombat X publisher Warner Bros. finally announced that Mortal Kombat X will not come to last-gen consoles, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, anymore.
Mortal Kombat X has been very well received by fans across PlayStation, Xbox, and PC platforms when it was released in April this year, and those still on the older-gen consoles, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, eagerly waited for the title to hit their consoles, as well. Mortal Kombat X community admin Yorick delivered the devastating news on the Mortal Kombat X forums on Friday that Mortal Kombat X on last-gen consoles isn’t happening anymore.
“After months of development, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has come to the regrettable conclusion that we cannot release Mortal Kombat X for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Please know our teams worked diligently to meet the quality standards set by the current-gen versions of the game. We were not able to get the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions to the quality expected of a Mortal Kombat game and are very sorry for not being able to deliver the products as originally planned. If you pre-ordered Mortal Kombat X for PS3 or Xbox 360, please go to the retail location where you pre-ordered the game and you will receive a full refund.”
This news has disappointed a lot of fans who were given the hope that Mortal Kombat X was to be ported to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 after it released this year. In a reply to a report by SegmentNext regarding the issue, user Marky360 said he doesn’t believe that the Mortal Kombat X port in PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 is undoable.
“I’m sorry but I don’t buy it nothing about MKX ( Mortal Kombat X) looks undoable on the PS3/360 to me. If they just lower the frame rate to 30FPS and drop the resolution to 720p I feel like the game would run no problem. Nothing in MKX looks all that different from MK9 ( Mortal Kombat 9) to me it just looks better graphically because it’s on the next-Gen and is running in a full 60FPS frame rate. Other that I don’t see why the game couldn’t be done on last-Gen at all.”
But while Mortal Kombat X fans at the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 are immensely upset about the news, this move by NetherRealm Studios isn’t the first in the gaming industry, since a lot of developers are already dropping the last-gen consoles for their AAA titles.
Ubisoft was the first to officially drop PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 from its succeeding titles, and other developers are soon to follow suit since in 2016, Microsoft is officially letting go of Xbox 360 . PlayStation 3’s doom is not far on the horizon as well.
While hardware limitations are the main reason why Mortal Kombat X won’t see the daylight in Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, NetherRealms shouldn’t have promised that the latest Mortal Kombat title would be ported to the last-gen consoles when it was released.
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