Mortal Kombat 11 Will Have A $100 Premium Edition On Switch

Aaaaaaaand there goes my hype

Yeah I'm off to the Eshop to pre-purchase the $100 version of a game I've yet to see any footage of, not even a screenshot.

I would pay $100 for the premium edition if the whole game comes Komplete on the cart. But $100 for a digital version? No thanks 😑

The one benefit of Nintendo’s historically lousy ‘big third-party’ support is that we often haven’t been exposed to all the dross that support comes with. Now we are!

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

I love Mortal Kombat as much as the next person but I would never in my right mind pay that much for a Video game

Absolutely avoiding this until there is the drastically cheaper and totally inevitable "Komplete GOTY" edition that includes everything for $29.99.

@NintendoFan4Lyf Was just posting basically the same thing.

@Marios-love-child Unless it's Pikmin 4. I'd give my left kidney and $200 for that game.

Nah....that is all.

Who's mad enough to do this when the XL version of the game will be out in a year priced at $60, per usual?

Has anyone seen any footage of this game

So basically there is the gutted and completed edition?

Only way this would be remotely acceptable is if the DLC came out 6 months after release.

But GUISE!! GAEMS cost MOAR to make deez dayz!

It's totallee not just going to pay 4 teh CEOz bonuses.

/s

There are other games to play.

22.3 GB for the download.
So unless WB studios are going to use the expensive 32gb cards then this is almost certainly gonna effect the base game physical release by having to download some of the game in order to play ☹️

Haha not a chance, since when did fighting games become the most expensive? What with multiple season passes and all the other nonsense they are far more than any other type of game at the moment for let's face it, much less gameplay than any other genre

Seems fair for a long form game. $40 is average for a season pass, so it’s just like lumping both together in one package.

Looking at it from a marketing perspective, this is such a stupid mistake. To announce or even put this out there when you haven't shown any clips or screenshots of the game. You can't possibly think your customers will pay this much when they haven't shown ANYTHING. :S

I give a lot of credit to NetherRealm these days for packing a lot of single player content in their fighting games.

But, they tend to have quite a lot of DLC for their games. At least they learned from MKX and included all of the characters in the higher edition of the games. I remember MKX's premium and collector editions only netting you the first Kombat Pack, Goro and a few costumes. The second Kombat Pack and the rest of the DLC costumes were not included.

Injustice 2's Ultimate edition had every DLC character included, from Red Hood and Sub-Zero all the way to the TMNT turtles. Hopefully MK11's Premium Edition follows Injustice 2's footsteps and not MKX's.

@kobalt
And according to another article, the Day-One Patch is going to be double the size of the base game.

At $100, WB better give us a nice, MK branded 64gb SD card since that's what you'll need to hold this ridiculous amount of game data... even if you go physical ffs.

This is as stupid as the premium dlc for the DOA series. Wth

@TAndvig : You are grossly overestimating the intelligence of the average consumer.

For being $100 you better be physical or else you won't see any of my dollars.

@SmaMan : Why have an SD card? The whole game would fit on a 32GB cartridge. The Asian/Japanese versions of Final Fantasy X-X2 and Dragon Quest Heroes I & II are the only games since the Switch was released over two years ago to use the 32GB cartridges.

Regarding Final Fantasy, the craziest thing is that the Asian version, with both games on a single 32GB cartridge costs the same as the Western release, which includes only the first game on a 16GB cartridge, and the second game as a download code. If ever there was evidence that we were being duped, this is it.

Hard pass, thanks. Just the standard edition will suffice.

@TAndvig They have shown it off though. It was playable at PAX and the early impressions are really positive. Look hard enough online and there is some brief footage of it. Clearly looks less detailed than the PS4/Xbox versions, but still pretty decent and it apparently runs super smooth as well.

Debating on whether a "Komplete" edition will come later.

But hey, that's likely my ancient ass not accepting how this is the games industry is these days.

@jswhitfield8 Haha fair enough, I rarely buy these games nowadays for just that reason with the likes of Tekken 7 on its second season pass and Soul Calibur is at it whilst Street Fighter 5 is a mess and had about 3 season passes before you could play as Blanka. Seriously why do they think this is acceptable? I remember when the next game gave you extra characters and now you get less and have to buy previous characters separately

I would be ok paying $100 for a physical collector's edition with awesome extras and a cool box... The current state of AAA games is embarrassing. Maybe I'm just too old. I'll pass on this for now, but I'll definitely get it eventually when I see it at a discount or used in 3 years.

According to other stores, the Premium Edition contains the base game plus the Kombat Pack.

The Kombat Pack includes:

• 6 new downloadable content playable characters
• 1 week early access to downloadable content characters
• 7 Skins
• 7 sets of gear

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP1018-CUSA11395_00-SEVEN11PREMIUM00

So the 22 add up roughly to what was said earlier about 6.5 plus 15.something patch. So we might need to download that giant ass patch day one huh? Man I finally decided to put money down on this now I'm going to cancel

@Silly_G
You're right about game card trickery (got the Asian version of FFX on pre-order, btw.) But this is a day-one downloadable patch that, presumably, they aren't going to (or can't) include on the card. This means, you're on the hook for all 44GB (presumably) of that patch you'll have to download.

So, aside from paying $100 for the "special" edition of this game, Warner Bros. wants you to pay an additional $10~$20 for extra storage to hold their bloody bloated fighting game.

@Ajent I know it's been open to a few but I didn't know there are clips out there. Would really like to see them.

@Silly_G Have to disagree on that. Never heard of an example where plenty of people bought a full game without actually seeing any of it.

They really think their game is worth that asking price? For a digital release?

Makes paying for cardboard seem comparatively sensible.

Triple A third party support! Yaaay!

$100 with physical games plus amiibo of sub zero would be great, but that's not going to happen, oh well..

@NintendoFan4Lyf some people, like me, have no money issue. The 100$ price is a low 3 hours of work for me.

Injustice never got a "Game of the Year" edition for Wii U, so I am not convinced that one will come to Switch until it happens.

One hundred dollars. Yikes, man. I'm glad this series doesn't interest me, cause that's kinda ridiculous. IF I buy it, and that's a big if, it'll be much later when it comes with all the DLC and is a fraction of the price. Apart from Smash, I've never been into fighting games.

To each their own, but definitely not for me.

If the DLC is ready then why don't they put it in the game already, it's this kind of thing that the government should stop these companies from doing to rip us off.
If we go to the cinema and pay to watch the movie we watch the full movie to the end, not only pay to watch 45 minutes of it.

@OorWullie lul

Are they crazy?!!!! No way. Not from me. No buy!

Is this an April’s fools day joke that you scheduled the date wrong????

Great... if only they showed some gameplay

@mercilessrobot this is exactly why 3ed party devs have always avoided bringing their titles to Nintendo consoles.

@VoodooTrumpet People who want to play it this year maybe?

Everybody's all like "I'm not paying $100 for a PREMIUM edition," and I'm over here like "are we going to get to see the game in action, on Switch, before April 23rd?"

@abduz Because I personally feel ripped off if I paid $99.99 for a game that not all of the content is finished for. Whatever. I buy a flip-ton of games for my Switch and feel like I've done a pretty good job of supporting 3rd party devs.

@BanjoPickles 'ZACTLY. I didn't say it and instead talked about price, but this really is the real issue.

@mercilessrobot

Exactly! I'm getting a real WWE vibe from this game! We've seen the game run on everything else BUT Switch! Supposedly it runs well, but I'm having a hard time believing that since we're two weeks out and we've seen no footage, no Switch-specific trailer, nothing. I'm not expecting it to be toe-to-toe with the PS4/XBONE releases, but I'm wondering how big of a glitchy disaster this is for them to hide it from the public.

I mean: really? ! What was I'm thinking? Of course there will be DLCs, but I was so fast on my MK11 Hypetrain that I totally forgot about it.
Cancelled my order right away and will wait for a Komplete Edition in one or two years or a good bargain.

@mercilessrobot

and I'm with you, regarding 3rd party support. I buy the games that turn out well, that I have an interest in, but I'm not going to get suckered into buying every game that comes down the pipeline. For one, I can't afford to do so, and also I don't want to send the message to these companies that I don't have the same high standards as somebody who owns a PS4.

I bought the Ultimate Edition of Injustice 2. Didn't regret it.

That is tons of cash. But if you enjoy fighting games, all good.

Really hoping this does well on Switch. A big new game success story from a 3rd party on Switch would be great! 👌👏

will get the dlc one at a time.

Remember the time when we bought a fighting game and it came with all the characters .It was exciting going completing the story mode or arcade mode to keep unlocking the characters to complete the roaster.But now all they do is take out half of these character out of the game before releasing it and make it look like they are adding more value to the base game.Guys we need to stop supporting these kind of unethical practises.

Lol u people lol there is $100 at gamestop..$100 version on the ps4 and xbone.

This type of game will be on sale at half price by XMAS

Unfortunately even the inevitable komplete edition will be incomplete. The injustice 2 complete was missing skins (that basically added characters with V.O. and everything) that were still available via microtransactions. I did get a version that contained an mount of in game currency with it and with a bit of math on how much in game currency (from grinding) plus the bonus currency was available I think it was around the same amount as the "premium skins" were worth. It still didn't unlock everything, I decided the shaders weren't worth it for me.

I feel like this game has been coming out for a century by this point. Can it just hurry up and release with all its day 1 dlc and other crap so we can move on to anything else

How you gonna ask someone to drop $100 without even detailing what’s included?

I can think of a thousand better things to buy instead of this slop.

In my day, if you wanted to unlock additional content you had to beat the game or improve a high score or input some old cheat codes that you learned from a pal or a strategy guide...

I’ll just wait for the game of the year edition, which should be released in about six months time.

I hate paid DLC packages; it’s as if they are selling 10 percent of a game and duping us for the rest of the 90% as “premium” content.

It’s strange to see so many people complaining about dlc in 2019. It’s an option, don’t like it just move on, but quit dramatizing it.

The lack of video and screenshots tho, by all means super valid complaints. I have a feeling it’s fine, but yeah I’d wait.

@Fake-E-Lee you are unbearably naïve.

no thanks, i'll wait for a complete version. a $100 for that is asking abit to much.

Too bad that nearly the entire game is in the day one patch. They realllly cheaped out on cards for this, like 8gb.

The Komplete edition will have all of that at half the price by next year, I'm ok with waiting.

@Friendly yep and all the bloated crap that comes with it... 😄

eShop for a 100USD take flip. Make that physical and I'll gladly pay it.

Yeah, this is kinda the norm for "AAA" third party titles. That's why it's funny to me when I see people talk up and down about said third party games and how much they want more on Switch, but will scoff at stuff such as DLC, loot boxes, day 1 patches etc. etc. that have become the norm for these games. Just sayin', "AAA" third parties have their fair share of faults too. That's why part of me really appreciates indie titles and lesser budget games or "middleware" if you will.

With that said, I'm still gonna be picking up MK 11, and depending on who the DLC is, I may be getting some of it too.

A lot of people are assuming that, if they get the physical version of MK11, they have to download the entire 22 gb. That's the total file size if you get the game digitally, I'm sure the download will be a lot less if you get it on retail.

@SmaMan
I just think that if you cannot release the full game (especially the base game) on any form of physical media then don't bother releasing it physically.
Yes it can help us save some memory on a micro SD card but at the end of the day they are not buying the game to own at that point. Just licencing it to play as you would a download only title so kinda pointless in my eyes.
But hey to each their own and if this is the case at least their are options on other consoles to purchase physically.
If others wish to download then by all means it's the preferred way of many to buy games.
It just sucks that we have to pay for the extra memory as the switch has hardly enough internal storage for big AAA games. Something I feel Nintendo will address with a revised switch like the much rumoured switch pro.
But hey we don't know if this is 100% fact yet.....though I'd say it's highly likely.

$100 for the base game + DLC. I don't see the issue. Seems very much akin to what you'd get if you opted for a game + season pass bundle.

Huge day one patches are also pretty standard for a lot of big AAA releases from Western publishers.

Expect more of this sort of thing if you want bigger third-party support on the Switch.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, no.

Day 1 DLC? And just like that they lost a sale

@Ralizah

I remember when Batman Arkham Knight did the same thing.

Eventhough the DLC content was substantial, I remember feeling underwhelmed.

Probably because the Mr. Freeze, Mad Hatter, Ra's al Ghul, and Killer Croc scenarios took place during the main campaign (making it feel like it was initially part of the base game but held back for DLC).

I was planning to get this on Switch but practically none of my friends are so for once I chose another system.
On the subject of $100 premium....ugh. Like I hate it, but it's no different from every other fighting game now. So whatever, I'll buy the dlc someday...maybe. Definitely not day 1.

and this is why the fighting genre is dead, this amount of dlc is ridiculous, why don't they make the "premium edition" a grand instead? day 1 buyers are getting the short end of the stick seriously.

@Yanick666 and this folks is the reason why they do this crap in the first place....

@Fake-E-Lee

With all due respect, I highly doubt that they're sitting on footage as a means of blowing everybody's minds with the progress they've made. I can't think of a single instance when the developer of a major, or even minor, franchise has ever taken that approach.

@mercilessrobot My bad, just noticed the part about December ...but it's like that with most games these days isn't it?

Internet: We want 3rd party support.

WB: Here's a triple A title, and here's the deluxe edition, same day release, DLC, and 60FPS.

Internet: We want pretty box art.

WB: Um...whut?!

Internet: We want SNES games.

WB: Wait, that has nothing to do...

Internet: Pitchforks and Torches!

Lol

You’d think people had just heard about DLC last week or something.

Yes, welcome to the modern era of gaming. Even Zelda had DLC planned before release, as does practically every AAA game in the industry nowadays. Oh, you want “all the content”? Then you’re going to have to pay for “All the content”. Otherwise be happy with your $60 worth of content. If you obsess and compule and have to have every last line of code written for the game then be well prepared to shell out hundreds of dollars for it because they’ll never stop making content for games like this. There is no such thing as “own the full game”. Only “own the full base game”

@JaxonH but let them release a complete game, and watch people go "Well where's this character?!" Lol

Same people who bought Cloud for Smash.

@Dustopolis so we should just stop complaining about BS business practices just because "it's 2019"? You are the reason they do this stuff because you accept it. EA half heard us when we complained about Battlefront 2.

@HatosBlack
Spot. Freaking. On.

Yes, the exact same people who bought Cloud for Smash. And Ryu. And Joker. And the Zelda DLC. And the Smash Season Pass.

It’s fine and dandy when Nintendo plans DLC day one, and even sells it before the game releases, but God help us all if a 3rd party does it. All you hear is “back in my day we didn’t have DLC”. We’re not talking microtransactions here... or lootboxes... or even in game currency. Just regular old DLC. And the hate mobs are out. For normal DLC.

I’ve been gaming since the late 80’s too. However, that’s not some excuse to hate what is actually a good thing. And DLC is definitely a good thing. There are times it can be bad... but this isn’t one of them. I absolutely love DLC and hope they bring more of it. And I’m very pleased to see them have a structured plan for post release content.

edit
Just purchased the Premium Edition off the eShop. Screw it... You live once. I wanna play a good game, and that’s precisely what I’m gonna do. Hellblade is next. And Final Fantasy X/X-2. And Dragons Dogma. And Final Fantasy XII. And Cuphead. SteamWorld Heist. Resident Evil 0. Resident Evil HD. Resident Evil 4. Assassins Creed 3 + Liberation. Saints Row. Sniper Elite. Team Sonic Racing...

Pile em up. That 1TB microSD will be earning its keep reaaal quick.

Unless that box says Virtua Fighter 6...no thank you. What franchise do they think this is? DoA?

...in case nobody gets the joke DoA 5's total DLC is around a grand last i checked. In general I don't mind fighting game DLC (or at all really) because that is my favorite genre but I'm not a MK fan. Anyway more support is a good thing.

Although seriously if it was VF 6 I'd pay 300 right now.

Between the crazy price and the fake physical version (totally fake since you need to download basically the whole game before being able to play) this game will probably flop making future games unlike to get a release and Warner will blame it on “Nintendo gamers don’t care about MK” instead of “Nintendo gamers don’t like to be cheated on by cheap publishers”

For starters I’ll wait until next year when a GotY version with all the DLC included for a reasonable price will be released. But I’ll still be salty about the mandatory download.

Edited: I’m not mad about the price of the DLC (though I think it’s a tad expensive)
I’m mad because when I buy a physical version I want just that. Having to download most of the game to be able to play it’s not what I consider to be a physical version. I’m pretty sure Warner could have used a 32GB card without losing profits on each game. I would have even accepted a slightly higher price for it, but not this.

Nope. There goes my interest.

@Fake-E-Lee you’re delusional too it would seem. Loathsome.

@JaxonH - I think the last time I bought DLC is on the PS3, so really my stance never changed. Even Smash 4 all I had was Mewtwo cause the promotion.

But I am also very much against character DLC in fighting games, cause that can break a game something fierce if not properly managed and balanced. They never are.

Eshop has screen shots now

A fighting game with a ton of DLC?!?

Blasphemy!! I have heard of no such thing...!!!

@Paraka
I think you could make a reasonable argument against fighting game DLC.

On the other hand, I think you could make a reasonable argument for it. I don’t really see it breaking anything. It’s just more characters for people to have fun with. Which... it’s just entertainment after all.

For sure I am more ordering the $100 premium edition, while I also pay £90 for the 3 Retro resident evil games lolololol.

@JaxonH - I think I could go into more detail as to why, however I think my stance is pretty summed up.

Almost always, and Bayonetta did this to Smash, like Shuma-Gorath did to MvC3. They are more characters, sure, but it's a rare occasion anyone runs some good balances for them and just hefts them into the game and carries on. New characters in fighting games (especially in fighting games) effect the rest of the game's experience for even those who do not have. In fact, fighting games are likely the only game where a solitary character effects so much.

There's a lot of people in this comment section that don't understand how fighting games work, specially modern ones.

I hate this concept. I didn’t want SF5 for cut content. Same with this disgraceful waste of IP. Taking something that was always just a fun time waster for adolescents to show off to their friends, into this cash grab just shows the current state of this industry. Pathetic, not happy with just making a great game and profits. This is almost double price with all the DLC 🤬

They lost my business with the huge download requirement. Not Real physical, plus DLC day 1.Shang Tsung is DLC??...... you gotta be kidding! no for me.

Take my money!!

@ilh I don’t know what’s wrong with additional content. To me you sound incredibly entitled. This is nothing like Battlefront, it isn’t pay to win, or cosmetics.

Spent some $ more. Get a 512 GB SD card instead.

And this is why I hate games nowadays, just give us a full game on a cartridge as it used to be.

@huyi you mean me ? Someone qho went to school to have a better job then WalMart and grocery store ?

@Dustopolis most of the time it isn't additional though, they just pull it out of the game and charge you for it, especially obvious when it's day 1 DLC. Entitled to wanting something that they used to do for years before the money man came along?

@subpopz no this just shows how Nintendo people loved Nintendo because they didn't buy I to that crap. All is lost now.

@RevampedSpider actually the same people against this were against smash doing it as well.

@JaxonH dlc is bad period. Why would you ever buy something that you never own? Sorry but there is no reason a full game cannot be on a physical cartridge without having to do the crap and yes people would pay more for that. Companies have gotten greedy is all it comes down to period.

@Dirty0814
For the same reason you pay to go to the movies or an amusement park. Do you "own" them? Or do you enjoy them and them move along...

On top of which, you can try to tell me I "dont own" my DLC but I've got in my possession thousands of dollars of DLC, never lost a single byte of it, so uh... I own it. Nobody's coming to take it from me... I own it. Nobody COULD take it from me even if they wanted to... I own it.

Saying "you dont own it" is nothing more than a skin deep bullet point argument. If any download is "not owned" then 90% of games are not owned, since they rely on day one patches.

This isnt the 90s. Sheltered Nintendo fans need to meet the world everyone else has been living in the past decade. You dont have to like it. But it isnt some end of world catastrophe either.

@electrogeist oh it’s not “as if”. That is, exactly what they are doing. Selling you a stripped game and bleeding you for the complete package. They are not adding anything worth any kind of money over what you paid for the game.
It’s a racket. Only fools throw their money at shady practices like that.
Mama didn’t raise no fool. No sir, they won’t get my money.

@Galactus_33 very well put.