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Those hoping to pick up and play Mortal Kombat 1 on the go will have to be ready to test their wallet’s might – as it appears the Nintendo Switch version of the game will cost $70.
Typically, players have grown used to games on the portable system ringing in around $10-20 cheaper, mainly due to the console’s reduced hardware resulting in visual or feature cutdowns to the home console version, offset by a smaller price tag. However, as noted by Kotaku, it seems that Mortal Kombat 1 won’t be pulling its punches, instead coming in at an RRP of $70 and making it the second game on the console to officially adopt the new higher price point – the first being The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.
The news that The Legend of Zelda would launch at $70 was met with some furore in the gaming community, to the point that Nintendo was forced to respond to Game Informer about the price rise. When asked if this would start a trend of higher prices for Switch games across the board, they said “No, we determine the suggested retail price for any Nintendo product on a case-by-case basis.”
While the higher price point doesn’t seem to have made a dent in Tears of the Kingdom’s sales success – Mortal Kombat 1 may be a harder sell. It’s not a first party title, for one, and of course it isn’t a new Zelda game, although it certainly is a big name series with plenty of fans. It’s also not a game that’s being developed with the Switch console in mind as the native format. In fact, the Switch version won’t even be primarily developed by the game’s main team of NetherRealm – rather, they’ll only be providing a support role to Shiver Entertainment and Saber Interactive.
There’s a lot of pressure, then, on Shiver Entertainment to ensure the port is as fully featured and runs and plays just as smoothly as the current-gen console version in spite of the hardware disparity. The same studio was also responsible for the Switch port of Mortal Kombat 11, which did suffer a number of performance issues at launch. Fans will surely be voting with their wallets as to whether Mortal Kombat 1 will be a success on Nintendo’s console when it gets over here on September 19, 2023.
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