Whereas NetherRealm is finest recognized for the Mortal Kombat collection, allow us to not overlook the superb Injustice video games, which pit DC characters in opposition to one another in brutal fights. And now, we all know Injustice 2 has been quietly shifting copies sooner than the Flash finishes a morning job across the globe.
Phrase comes from NetherRealm huge boss Ed Boon himself. He responded to a fan on BlueSky who shared a picture from a 2019 rating of the highest 10 best-selling superhero video games. The consumer requested Ed Boon if Injustice 2 had bought greater than 2 million copies, and Boon succinctly replied: “Since we launched Injustice 2, it has bought over 9 million copies worldwide.”
To place that nine-million determine into perspective, Injustice 2 isn’t really all that far behind NetherRealm’s greatest hitters. Mortal Kombat X bought round 12 million copies and Mortal Kombat 11 has surpassed 15 million, whereas the a lot newer Mortal Kombat 1 solely crossed eight million gross sales earlier this yr. In different phrases, commercially talking, Injustice definitely doesn’t appear like a collection Warner Bros. has an apparent cause to desert.
In fact, there are some caveats to evaluating Injustice 2 gross sales in opposition to Mortal Kombat 1 – Injustice 2 has been round for a lot, far longer and may be very continuously discovered at extraordinarily discounted costs. That alone will assist it promote. Nonetheless, 9 million shouldn’t be one thing to be ignored.
However that does beg the plain query: the place’s the third sport?
Regardless of Injustice 3 by no means being formally introduced, proof for it has been piling up for years like Batman piles up thugs. It appeared in Nvidia’s notorious 2021 GeForce Now database leak, whereas Ed Boon has repeatedly steered NetherRealm intends to return to the collection. Issues obtained significantly extra attention-grabbing final yr when leaker MultiverSusie relatively unsubtly teased Injustice 3, earlier than the strongest proof but emerged earlier this yr: MP1st reported {that a} Warner Bros. Video games artist had explicitly listed Injustice 3 on their résumé, one thing I lined right here on the time. None of that quantities to an official announcement, however mix it with greater than 9 million gross sales for Injustice 2, and a 3rd sport definitely wouldn’t be troublesome to justify.
And that’s very true when Mortal Kombat 1 has struggled greater than the earlier entries, maybe suggesting that the franchise must take a brief break. Injustice 3 could be a terrific approach of doing that.
