Random: Nintendo Pulls Mortal Kombat 1 Switch Trailer Featuring Steam Pop-Up

Someone's head will roll for that mistake!

What if that was Switch 2 footage......just saying.....

Maybe Nintendo bought Steam? Oh the joy.

This really highlights a problem. It’s not only the Mortal Kombat devs who are guilty of this but for f’s sake, use the footage and gameplay from the system you are selling for. It infuriates me.

I learned real hard when I bought Scott Pilgrim on switch — which has that annoying audio bug — and found out Nintendo wouldn’t offer a refund, no exceptions. I tried to get a refund because of a defective game and nope, wasn’t happening.
The devs know people will buy based on the footage alone and then the consumer is stuck with the product.
What a scummy ploy and lazy practice.

@Serpenterror I mean, Valve is THE prime asset for Nintendo in Gaming. Valve is sitting on a big pile of cash. At some point, getting Valve would be a career moment for Nintendo, and I honestly believe a good move for both companies. It’s just taking a long time for Valve to see that their future exists off of their own software.

Nintendo removed it because they got caught, not because it was a mistake. Warner Bros. is the one that deserves the most blame though for having someone cut up a Switch trailer with PC gameplay.

@HotGoomba The Week of the Mishap is upon us! Uncle Phil isn’t looking so innocent now… 😂

So the trailer was thrown together haphazardly? How fitting for this game...

@HotGoomba Xbox having it worst nightmare this week, is gonna be so akward Phill Spencer speaking with Furukawa, and Furukawa giving him the Luigi death stare

Nintendo should really consider adding trophies for people who like them.

For me it’s a reason to choose other consoles for multiplatform games. It just adds more challenges and makes me enjoy the game for a longer time.
I don’t think anyone would NOT play something because it had achievements. So what is Nintendo waiting for?

@PinderSchloss I sometimes choose to play on switch instead of Steam to avoid partially complete achievement lists. At least if performance is comparable. I did this with Binding of Isaac because I realized I'd never get all the achievements on Steam. It's less OCD and more that I'll put a game down for a year or two, then want to start completely fresh. So I used to use SAM to delete my Steam achievements and start over.

I appreciate that there is a system where the focus is on the game itself and not tasks that tempt me to complete, but I'm not doing just for the fun of it.

I realize I'm in the minority though and if the masses want trophies / achievements on Nintendo, I'll live!

@Roz1281 I do wish other platforms would let you delete trophy information. That would solve your problem, right? But it should be available for those who want them.

@Roz1281 Right there in the minority with you. I generally find them pointless distractions at best and downright irritating at worst.

When I’m playing a game I want to be pulled into the moment-to-moment gameplay, not thrown out of it by some intrusive icon telling me I’ve completed my 1000th wall jump (or something equally inane).

They can be game-specific if the dev deems them absolutely necessary (like in Ori) or worked into the actual gameplay (like in Mario Odyssey) but requiring them on a system-wide level doesn’t sound very appealing to me at all.

@HotGoomba
Honestly, I didn't see this quote coming in quite this fashion.
Pretty impressive.

@PinderSchloss I used to have an Xbox and the other day when playing on the Switch, I understood that I much prefer not to have achievements in games. I do not like the useless achievement, such as killing your first monster or finishing the tutorial. And I really dislike the achievements trying to steer me in playing the game in a specific way. So I put on my wishlist for the next console not to have achievements, I think games are better without them. Or at a minimum an option to disable them for all games, so that I can enjoy my games without them and that people who like them can still have them.

@PinderSchloss Nintendo could do amazing trophies. They could have a trophy room with little 3D trophies or something cute. I find with Nintendo games being so easy trophies could increase the challenge and create additional incentive for more hardcore players.

Scummy more using in game graphics that are not from the Switch version in the launch trailer for the Switch version.

Like the old days when the screenshots on the back of the game box where not from that version of the game.

The scummiest thing about this is that the trailer was made to look like it had "Switch graphics", because if you compare it to the regular launch trailer it had slightly worse graphics and resolution but still overall looked pretty good(nothing close to what we actually got). They deliberatly recorded the PC version with lower resolution and graphic settings to fool everyone that this is Switch footage.

Someone in the PR marketing for this trailer really tried pull a wool over everyone's eyes, not only can you see the Steam achievement pop-up, but at one point you can see a Steam logo next to the username of the player and LT+RT button prompts when the Fatal Blow was active lol

@Maxz 100% agree with you. I hate all the nonsense that pops up on while playing my xbox. Achievements are distracting and at times destroy the games atmosphere by popping up.

This almost feels like the time Steam Deck's advertising showed an icon for a Switch emulator.

Have hated this pracrice since the early days of rhe Switch - use Switch footage to promote the Switch version. Even a lot of the eShop screenshots and videos are from other versions on more powerful systems. Shadows seem to often betray this when they are not present in the Switch versions, must be an easy winto turn them off or something.

"... hasn't got off to the best start..."

You mean "hasn't gotten* off to the best start".

That hand is really bothering me in the screenshot

@PinderSchloss If they can be disabled, sure. I personally hate achievements and would choose one without over one with on a different platform.

Achievements are dumb... And this game doesn't look good on Switch... No one is surprised and a lot of people will be happy to play MK on Switch and won't care.

@HotGoomba nice xbox ceo impression. 😉

@ChromaticDracula Yeah its very dirty to use footage of a game from a different platform. pc version no less, to sell it to switch consumers. they should allow refunds for the deception. haha

@Beefcakeyamato @ChromaticDracula To be fair to Nintendo, hopefully I'm not breaking NDA to simply point out that in their guidelines for submitting trailers for them to use, or when using their Switch assets in your own, it clearly says that you must only use Switch footage and not that of PC or from other consoles so its representative of the experience - or if this isn't possible for whatever reason, have a text disclaimer on screen similar to the "not representative of gameplay" that you see during pre-rendered cutscenes.

I don't think you can expect Nintendo to check this is being followed for every video as the difference is often subtle but if a developer tries to sneak in some footage that makes their game look better than it is, and viewers point it out, it will be removed. I'm sure that's what's happened here. Even without this obvious Steam mixup, surely the quality diffrence between the Switch and PC version would mean its obvious? Its like a tacit acceptance that the Switch version looks bad.

@samuelvictor oh absolutely … I can’t even imagine paying someone to sit there and compare trailers and stuff. All those games every week and stuff and no way to really know it was captured on Switch or not.

All the more reason why this makes me so mad… it’s sneaky and disrespectful of everyone’s time.

Not sure I can even think of a better vetting process.

@ChromaticDracula I think the current system of having it as a rule that publishers are made very aware of, but then letting the public point out the occasions those rules are blantanly broken, is actually a pretty good one. Because this way the publishers trying to pull this crud get very publicly called out, and it alerts Nintendo which publishers to pay specific attention to and to distrust.

They will have recieved countless emails and comments about this and will be very annoyed - I'm sure they will have strong words with the publisher. And if they weren't already aware, this will make Nintendo very clear on the fact that people are unhappy with the state the game was released in, and how its making their platform look bad. The publisher is now noted for closer scrutiny moving forward.

@PinderSchloss I agree. I love wringing out all of the value I can from my games. Hunting down every collectible, mastering the optional challenges, maxing out character levels, claiming that 100% status. ESPECIALLY, in Nintendo games. I feel like these special moments are commemorated on other systems, with a memorial trophy and screenshot, so that later when you feel like reliving those moments of glory, or sharing/bragging about them with friends and family, you can. But on Nintendo, they result in nothing but fading memories. I remember dying like 150 times on my way to beating Champions Road in Super Mario 3D World. It would have been amazing to have earned an achievement when I finally pulled it off after all that work, but... nope. Here's an in-game stamp. That's it. Unless you boot that game back up, there is nothing to notate your.. achievement. I've often bought multi-platform titles on competing systems for this reason, but wish I didn't have to. I really want the next Switch to have trophies/achievements. Let people disable them if they don't want to participate.

Now that's a Fatality!

This is deception, plain and simple. Of course it's expected that the trailer footage for a Switch release should come from the game running on Switch. They didn't even put one of those "not actual game footage" reminders there. Someone clearly thought they could get away with this.

It is scummy to try to pass PC footage off as Switch gameplay. Should be illegal. The trade description act 1968 suggests it is.

This was a pretty crappy thing to do.
I feel like this version is going to be a dumpster fire, regardless. MK11 was substantially downgraded for Switch, I can only imagine how much this one will be.
Good they're actually trying to put it on Switch, unlike many devs, but I feel like we're long past getting decent ports of new games on Switch.