Despite players’ love for the Nintendo Switch, we must admit that its technical weaknesses can cause big problems, as is the case here with Mortal Kombat.
The highly anticipated fighting game Mortal Kombat is available in early access on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and… Nintendo Switch. And for the latter, it’s a bit of a disaster. Since its availability, several users have uploaded images and screenshots. The least we can say is that the result is far from impeccable…
Mortal Kombat is coming to Nintendo Switch
We know that the Nintendo Switch hardware is starting to age and is having a hard time keeping up with the most recent games. If this goes “unnoticed” on the Japanese giant’s productions like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, this is clearly not the case for many third-party games. Mortal Kombat is the perfect example. In fact, the version available on Nintendo’s hybrid console has been widely criticized, so much so that many wonder how the developer can ask the same price on Switch as on other platforms.
As expected, the community took to Twitter and TikTok to question NetherRealm’s decision to market Mortal Kombat at $70 (69 euros here). You can take a look at the different publications below, it’s still a pretty pitiful result.
Beyond the graphics and character modeling, which leave something to be desired, some deplore numerous bugs in the version of Mortal Kombat on Switch, which is annoying, especially when you pay full price for a game. Instead, see the result with this aberration: enough to drive you crazy.
An outburst on the networks and elsewhere
Obviously, we were quickly treated to numerous memes on the subject to make fun of the rendering. TikTok user Johniibo, who regularly covers Nintendo releases, said Mortal Kombat felt like a PS1 game and the result was just awful. In another video, the creator said that while he was “happy” to have access to Mortal Kombat on Switch, it was “bordering on criminal” to charge the same price for that version of the game as for its Xbox and PlayStation counterparts. In short, it is a disaster both for the game itself and for Nintendo which once again shows its limits.
It is also surely for this reason that the Japanese firm is visibly actively working on a Nintendo Switch 2 to offer more substantial power. We hope that when the time comes, this type of industrial disaster will be a distant memory. Because paying 70 euros for a title full of bugs is quite unacceptable, especially in times of economic difficulties.