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Mortal Kombat Outsells Portal 2 in US

Uros "Vader" Pavlovic

05:00 am EDT @ May 13th, 2011

Filed under: MORTAL KOMBAT, PORTAL 2, GAME SALES

It appears that the new Mortal Kombat game ended up being the best-selling title in the United States during April, confirms NPD Group. The revived beat-'em-up franchise is back on track, with this new release selling just under 900,000 grabbing the first spot in the chart and surpassing sales of Valve's Portal 2 - the recently released FPS puzzle game.

1. Mortal Kombat (PS3, 360 - Warner)
2. Portal 2 (PS3, 360, PC - EA)
3. Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (PS3, 360, PC, Wii, DS - LucasArts)
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3, 360, PC - Activision)
5. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters (PS3, 360, Wii - EA)
6. Crysis 2 (PS3, 360, PC - EA)
7. Just Dance 2 (Wii - Ubisoft)
8. Michael Jackson: The Experience (PS3, 360, Wii, DS, PSP - Ubisoft)
9. Pokemon White Version (DS - Nintendo)
10. NBA 2K11 (PS3, 360, PC, Wii, PSP, PS3 - Take-Two)

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	SpaceMonkey	[mail] May 13 2011, 06:31 am EDT
	Reply This proves that us gamers lack taste.
	optimus slime: You lack smell. This is one of those time when I agree with... Cheddar: There's no denying that Mortal Kombat is a cruder and more v... GrgoljBlaster: This is only retail, right? Because Valve games sell more vi...

	Doomsday.	[mail] May 13 2011, 06:43 am EDT
	Reply Black Ops still selling shows what kind of shit people like!

	Cheddar	[mail] May 13 2011, 06:50 am EDT
	Reply It proves that (male) gamers are more likely to choose violent entertainment over cerebral entertainment, given the option (which should surprise no one, really). That, and apparently Mortal Kombat as an IP still possesses a surprising degree of market penetration.

	ZeroWolf	[mail] May 13 2011, 06:58 am EDT
	Reply Hmm, never liked Portal (or any of Valve's games for that matter) so this is actually cool news.

	optimus slime	[mail] May 13 2011, 07:14 am EDT
	Reply Not to take anything away from it, but Portal 2 is not as 'cerebral' as it's predecessor. They've built upon the awe-provoking gameplay, but the challenges are not as difficult because people got used to the mechanic. The new tools, gadgets and various tidbits are fun, but they didn't use them to their full potential, imo. All in all, it's witty at best. However, I like that Valve is being Valve again and that they released the modding tools, which is what makes their games shine. Without it, Portal 2 is a short play-and-forget experience.
	Showing 10 newest replies out of 18: optimus slime: As for that Portal 1 owed its success to Orange Box, I agree... optimus slime: I didn't say the popular reviewers are more weighted than ot... Loraxxe: Actually, Metacritic does weight critic scores, last I check... Cheddar: @Loraxxe -- Ah, I stand corrected about the weighting, then.... Cheddar: @optimus "if it were, the charts wouldnt be littered by t... EricHalfBee: Some people just don't like puzzle games and don't like the ... optimus slime: As I said, I don't care much for Metacritic. It is a good si... EricHalfBee: Would it be fair to say that your main point here OS is that... optimus slime: That's not exactly "tons of replay value". Yes, I replayed P... EricHalfBee: On not holding water: I know Portal 2 has a MP - but not the...

	optimus slime	[mail] May 13 2011, 07:33 am EDT
	Reply As for Mortal Kombat, it's understandable. People have been waiting for the worthy sequel for almost 2 decades. And this is certainly it. It's not only the best game of the series, but it has also set the bar for the genre. If you put all that into consideration, the list is not surprising.
	Cheddar: You said it, though -- two decades. 20 years. Which means ...

	Cheddar	[mail] May 13 2011, 08:45 am EDT
	Reply Set the bar for the franchise, perhaps, but not for the genre. No way, man. As a fighter game in and of itself, it does nothing at all new. The game's pretty good and critics are receiving fairly well, but it's basically just old-school Mortal Kombat with current-generation visuals. That, by definition, can not be raising the bar -- it's actually dropping it down to an older, simpler level... albeit an entertainingly nostalgic one.
	optimus slime: For basic fighting mechanics no, but it actually does raise ...

	SpaceMonkey	[mail] May 13 2011, 09:39 am EDT
	Reply It's a piece of shit, only idiotic americans and morons like optimus slime play with such garbage.
	optimus slime: You really are an irritable little dimwit. You babble on and... Cheddar: If one likes fighter games at all, then there's no reason to... EricHalfBee: Each to his own eh? Each to his own..

	Dick_Swet	[mail] May 13 2011, 09:46 am EDT
	Reply So,this is only retail?

	Sujet	[mail] May 13 2011, 10:11 am EDT
	Reply Yes this is only retail, and proves nothing since Steam had Portal 2 on %10 preorder and me and everyone i know preorded it. We also got a free copy of portal 1, and now we have like 2 each since we already had it.

	Cheddar	[mail] May 13 2011, 10:45 am EDT
	Reply I hadn't thought about that at all. I should have, since it's so obvious. More than likely then MK sales haven't beat Portal 2 sales at all, since we can be certain Steam raked in a huge number of transactions. Steam represents the heart of Valve game fandom, afterall.

	GrgoljBlaster	[mail] May 13 2011, 03:20 pm EDT
	Reply I won't lie - if they released PC version of Mortal Kombat at the same time as console one, I'd buy it in an instant (along with Portal 2 ofcourse). It's MK for f*ck's sake, we waited for this a long time (since MK Trilogy) and as for what I saw, it deserves the praise.

	Juxtapose	[mail] May 13 2011, 04:56 pm EDT
	Reply I'm thoroughly enjoying Mortal Kombat, mainly due to nostalgia. It was after Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 that I got out of the franchise, so this reboot is right up my alley. For Portal 2, I personally have no interest in it, but to each their own.

	Bigolli	[mail] May 14 2011, 11:17 pm EDT
	Reply 2. Portal 2 (PS3, 360, PC - EA) EA? Not Valve?

	Cheddar	[mail] May 15 2011, 01:29 am EDT
	Reply EA isn't Valve's publisher. Valve simply has a deal with EA that lets EA package and distribute Valve's games to brick-and-mortar retailers. And since brick-and-mortar retail sales are the only thing NPD's charts measure, we see EA's name listed there.

	Bigolli	[mail] May 15 2011, 02:18 am EDT
	Reply I see. Thanks for clarifying that =)

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