Hello, everyone!
If you've been following gaming news, you know that Midway has been tanking for a good while now. Sure Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe actually managed to sell about 2 million units, but let's face it, it was the same copy-paste job that the recent MK games have been for the past few years now with DC characters to amount to noting more than a cash-in. Other than that, Wii shovelware and crappy titles have Midway's MO for quite some time now. It's shame that the arcade era of Midway is no more and even the time after leaving the arcade industry gave us Psi-Ops, The Suffering and Shadow Hearts showing great promise, but alas, they just couldn't keep up with the times. The only question I was asking was how long would Midway be allowed to continue on in such a state or as many things in this world nowadays, would mediocrity and blind fanboy hype be enough for them to carry on. Well, no more.
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6204585.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;2
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2174462/
FATALITY!
While it is sad to see this happen in these times of economic peril, it's hard to show sympathy for a company that thought it could get away with putting out shoddy product and refusing to adapt and learn from it's competitors. As much as Mortal Kombat gave us fond memories, MK did not age well at all. Refusing to step up to the likes of Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, Tekken and many other fighting game series who improved as time went on, MK became nothing more than a laughing stock with Ed Boon, co-creator of MK, too blind and delusional to notice or even care that his own creation was the butt of jokes among gamers who knew better. Midway could not revel off past glory and this week's news proved it true. Too bad, but good riddance. Let's see what happens from here with Midway and their IPs. Will someone buy the catalog? The company, not that it would do very much good, as far as I know. But in the meantime, to fans who thought Midway was still respectable...."I told you so." And to Ed Boon and Midway....."Good night, Sweet prince."
P.S. Why couldn't Midway at least port The Grid to PC, PSN and XBox Live?
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2 comments:
i agree doc, despite my POWER X-TREME dislike and disregard for MK and Midway, the last thing i want to see is people losing jobs =(
(i honestly didn't know MK vs DC sold more than 1 copy.)
in related news, Eidos just sold TOMB RAIDER to, of all companies, Square-Enix.
i can hardly wait for TOMB RAIDER TACTICS ADVANCE now.
p.s. welcome on board, Luis!
Thanks, bro!
Yeah, I'm surprised MK vs. DC managed to sell despite the broken stuff discovered BEFORE the game came out ontop of being copy-pasta. Such is the industry.
But yeah, S-E buying Eidos? I don't know what good that will amount to, but if I see BELTAN ZIPPERS Raider (now with 100% more spiky hair and ANGST!!), not a good sign.
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