Mortal Kombat 1 is also available on Nintendo Switch, but it’s a disaster. The historic producer of the license, Ed Boon, spoke about this very inferior version.
Mortal Kombat 1 is officially released on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo and PC. Gone is early access which allowed some to get a head start. The first feedback is generally very good, except on the Big N console. In just a few hours, this version became the laughing stock of the Internet because of its very poor graphics and the instability of the game. Will all the problems reported and mocked by Internet users be corrected or is it better to avoid buying MK1 on Switch like the plague?
Mortal Kombat 1 is a disaster on Switch, but it will get better…
Mortal Kombat 1 is one of the big releases of September 2023, and the YouTube channel ElAnalistaDeBits obviously couldn’t miss it. The media therefore carried out a comparison of the different versions and unfortunately, it is a complete disaster on Nintendo Switch. You only have to admire the few captures below to see the extent of the damage. Suddenly, all the characters took a real beating!
Internet users made fun of the result, but the disastrous facial modeling is not the only problem with Mortal Kombat 1 on Nintendo Switch. In addition to the violent graphics downgrade, various opinions deplore framerate problems, bugs as well as control problems precisely because of the performance. “There are framerate issues, big resolution variations, performance-related command processing issues, missing content, bugs that break Invasion mode, loading times that are too long and menus that don’t respond not “ sums up Nintendo Life.
Is there anything to do? On the players’ side, no obviously. Apart from holding back from getting the Switch version of Mortal Kombat 1 for the moment. Because according to Ed Boon, one of the creators of the license, it will improve (ha!). “A number of issues identified will be resolved. The ideal for us would have been to release the version that we absolutely wanted. But anything that causes problems is on our list and will be fixed” (via BBC Newsbeat).
Crazy new Fighters in DLC?
Mortal Kombat 1’s roster of fighters is decent, but rumors suggest it could be even crazier. Really crazier. According to dataminers, game files notably tease the possible arrival of Ghostface. The legendary killer from the Scream saga. One of the dialogues “F*ck Movies. Nothing beats a good book » would be one of the dialogues discovered. Conan the Barbarian, who has already been the subject of rumors, would also still be in the running.
In an interview for Rolling Stones, Ed Boon also revealed something about the casting of Mortal Kombat 1. John Wick could have been in it, but the negotiations failed. “John Wick is one of the characters we tried to get for Mortal Kombat, but we didn’t get him”. Too bad, because Baba Yaga would have been right at home. You can always console yourself with the illustrious JCVD, Jean-Claude Vandamme, in his role as Frank Dux from Bloodsport. Although, we’re not going to lie, the resemblance is approximate.