Ooooh boy. MK potentially becoming a Microsoft exclusive? Me no likey.

I had no idea SFV was a PS exclusive.

To be honest I want them to buy WBIE out and gain those development platforms. They have the money to back them and let them make amazing games and with MS having X Cloud where you can play games literally anywhere, people won't have to worry too much on not being able to play MK anymore. They bought Mojang and you see Minecraft on every platform possible so I don't see them not doing the same thing with games under these studios as well. The one thing you might see is some exclusive content in games like certain characters or DLC being on Xbox platforms first, but I don't think you'd see permanent exclusive on Xbox for MK ever. There could be a launch window on stuff but that's about it. I would very much rather MS get these studios than EA and Take2 who will monetize the hell out of anything they get their paws on. Ubisoft were looking at them too as they did back when Midway was selling, but I think you will find if MS wants these studios they will be the ones with the money to buy them. I hated SF5 being exclusive to PS4 as I love that series but thankfully I have a pc and got it there. Maybe this will balance things out some, Sony has SF, MS has MK. Sony has spider-Man, MS has Batman. I think it would be good for competition between the companies and MS seems on the right track in dealing with studios under it's wing now. Let's see what gets announced this month! ;)

I hate win10 with a passion. Still on Win7, have to use the newest at work and hating its guts. But M$ game studios are making good games these days. I loved Ori and the Blind Forest and now we have Will of the Wisps. So yeah, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. But who is gonna hold the rights to Batman (I'm interested because I like Arkham series and there's a new one in development). It was created exclusively by DC which is part of Warner which is part of AT&T and now Batman will be M$ property? Or will they only have rights to Batman games? Can someone explain?

I've been saying since it was announced that WB was looking to unload both NRS & Rocksteady that MS should buy them.

It was originally announced that Take 2, EA & Activision where considering buy them previously.

All 3 would be absolutely horrible choices for NRS, from a production stand point. When you consider how much BS NRS put up with under Midway.

Also considering that Sony acquired Street Fighter this gen as an exclusive, I think MS acquiring NRS would be a good thing. It would allow NRS to take over the Killer Instinct franchise, along doing crossovers between MK & KI, which are much better than the DC crossovers.

What I had read though, was that WB was looking to unload NRS & Rocksteady, while retaining ownership of the DC IPs, and simply license it out. So MS wouldn't get the right to injustice or the Rocksteady Arkham IPs, but I'm concerned how that would affect the MK iP. If NRS would retain that or if WB would, and simply license it out to MS. I could care less, if MS owns it, and it becomes a MS exclusive, but that would be really terrible if NRS wasn't able to train thier own MK IP.

I wouldn't mind Microsoft holding the title. They did great work with KI so MK should be just as good.

Also it would give a nice exclusive franchise under their belt. Especially since PS stole the SF franchise. It would make owning an Xbox a lot better.

I'm all for it.

Microsoft has been so much more consumer friendly lately that I think this is a no-brainer. I shudder to think of EA or Take2 getting a hold of NRS.. .

I don't think AT&T would.end up selling a very successful division ( arguably the most successful) to get 4 billions out when at a given year if their major studios released their hits they can get 500m- 1m profit out of a budget of less than 100m each.

Having said the above, MS is such a better deal than any of the other mentioned bunch..

NRS can do Killer Instinct and they can mix it with MK..

I’d like MK to remain multi-platform but if Warner Bros really wants to sell and Microsoft wants to buy than you can’t change that lol. If anything it would convince me to buy the next-gen Xbox after skipping out on the Xbox One generation.

My fear though is that Mortal Kombat is going to lose a lot of sales, resulting in smaller budgets going forward. Look how much Street Fighter 5 nosedived compared to Street Fighter 4. SF 5 sold less than half of what SF 4 did. Hopefully Warner Bros decides not to sell but if they did I hope whoever buys them gives them the same level of support that WB did.

If this is true, I hope they don't bring Netherrealm with them. Get a better team to develop Mortal kombat .They don't fix hitbox and hurtbox issues throughout the franchise. Its really bad that they get a smooth pass in the fgc

Fuck The fighting game community.. and their purist blah blah crap.

NRS or bust.

Netherrealm needs to past the mantle to developers that can actually fix their own mistakes. Enough is enough with this sweep it under the rug bullshit. Cyrax in MK9 is broken and they left him like that, while the game was active. Female, jump in and hit region issues from inj1-mk11 still remain till this day right now. I agree. Fuck the casuals in this community that focus on the wrong shit.