HeresSomeWeapons said:
Wat. How? How does Mortal Kombat doing well mean that people who are currently buying Capcom fighting games and DLC will stop doing so? Capcom's success is completely independent of Mortal Kombat. The two are not mutally exculsive.
Because in the end? This is a "battle" for the casual market. Said market already started to gnash its teeth when Capcom went back to its 90s style "disc updates" for Super, last year. They were more than a bit nonplussed by MvC3's rather bare-bones content, as well.
So, all it would take is for decent competition to show up, and showcase a different, if not possibly better way of doing things, and the market will inevitably set the tone for what is expected in the years to come.
Case in point: MK Deception and DOA Ultimate were the first two fighting games that had online functionality in a way that actually started to address Western desires for such. Now, to have online features is not only something that is a nice bullet-point to have for your fighting game release, it's
expected. That's what the market wanted, and it had its way.
So what I'm saying is, don't be surprised if what this MK does, inevitably forces Capcom to take at least some notes. Reptile DID preempt Akuma/Gouki, after all... :lol